QUICK SUMMARY - ( ABSTRACT & ALLUSION IS KEY )
REV.1 - YAHUSHA IS ALIVE & AUTHOR OF JOHN'S VISIONS
REV.2 - EPHESUS, COME BACK TO FIRST LOVE OR LOSE LAMPSTAND
OVERCOMERS EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE!
REV.2 - SMURNA, KEEP ENDURING PRESSURE AND I WILL GIVE YOU
THE CROWN OF LIFE AND THE 2ND DEATH WON'T HARM YOU!
Now write this to the Messenger of the Assembly in PERGAMOS:
PERGAMOS WAS LOCATED NORTH OF SMURNA AND WAS A CENTRE OF LEARNING AND MEDICAL SCIENCE. THE LIBRARY THERE WAS ACTUALLY LARGER THAN THE ONE IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT FOR THE SHEER VOLUME OF BOOKS. AS IT HAPPENS WHEN CITIES ARE KNOWN AS “COLLEGE TOWNS”, THERE ARE FINE THEATRES AND VENUES, WHICH ARE ATTRACTIVE TO THOSE WITH MONEY. SO THERE WERE NUMEROUS ROYAL RESIDENCES IN PERGAMOS.
THE MOST ICONIC BUILDING WAS THE TEMPLE OF AESCULAPIUS, THE DEITY OF HEALING, WHO'S IMAGE WAS THE SNAKE, WHICH WAS EMPOWERED IN THE TEMPLE IN ORDER TO HEAL. AND THE NATIONS CAME IN DROVES TO THIS CITY AS CHARMS, POTIONS AND INCANTATIONS WERE CONDURED. AND THE SYMBOL OF THE SERPENT/SNAKE HAS BEEN CONNECTED WITH MEDICINE EVEN TO THIS DAY.
THESE PAGAN TEMPLES WERE FULL OR CORRUPT PRIESTS WHO PRACTICED AND TAUGHT THE EATING OF FOOD OFFERED TO IDOLS, UNCLEAN `FOOD', DRINKING BLOOD, SODOMY AND ALL FORMS OF DEVIOUS ORGIASTIC PERVERSION - JUST LIKE TODAY REALLY!
I’m the one who has the sharp double - edged sword remember? So listen to what I say. I see all your hard work and I understand that you live where Satan has his throne. But you’ve kept true to My Name. I mean right there where Satan lives, my trustworthy witness Antipas was taken from you and put to death, and even then you didn’t give up your belief or stop following Me.
YAHUSHA SAW THE IDOLATROUS BEHAVIOUR IN PERGAMOS AS WICKED BEYOND COMPARE AND THEREFORE IT MADE LIFE AS A BELIEVER TERRIBLY DIFFICULT AND FULL OF TEMPTATION. SO IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE YAHUSHA COMMENDS THEM FOR HOLDING ON TO HIS NAME.
WHERE IS SATAN'S THRONE TODAY ?
SEE THE WREATHED SERPENT? THE EARLY PRACTICE OF MEDICINE WAS AS FULL OF SUPERSTITION AND IDOLATRY AS IT WAS SCIENCE AND DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORSHIP OF SATAN. SO IT'S WITHIN THIS BACKDROP THAT THE ASSEMBLY IN PERGAMOS EXISTS AND IT PROVIDES THE CONTEXT FOR THIS LETTER.
But I do have a few things against you, because some of you there are following the teachings of Balaam (who long ago showed Balak how to make the people of Yisharal stumble, by eating food that had been offered to idols and then committed whoring). (BALAAM ADVISED KING BALAK TO SEND PAGAN WOMEN INTO YISHARAL TO DISTRACT AND SEDUCE THEM INTO WORSHIPPING FALSE DEITIES THROUGH SEXUAL ORGY BEHAVIOUR).
IN THE ASSEMBLY AT PERGAMOS THERE WAS A GROUP WHO TAUGHT AND PRACTICED THE DOCTRINE OF BALAAM, TURNING THE FREEDOM AND FAVOR AND BLESSING OF YAHUAH INTO ALL KINDS OF LUSTS, TEACHING THAT BELIEVERS COULD GO TO IDOL TEMPLES, EAT THINGS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS AND COMMIT SEXUAL IMMORALITY. THEY TAUGHT THAT, BECAUSE THEY WERE THE PEOPLE OF YAHUSHA, HE WAS OBLIGATED TO FORGIVE AND BLESS THEM REGARDLESS OF THEIR LIFE-STYLE. THESE WERE THE SAME EVIL DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES IN THE PAGAN TEMPLES IN PERGAMOS, THAT HAD CREPT INTO YAHUSHA'S ASSEMBLY.
BALAAM BROUGHT ABOUT AN ABOMINABLE ALLIANCE, A 'MARRIAGE' BETWEEN YISHARAL AND MOAB, AND NOW THIS DOCTRINE HAD CREPT INTO PERGAMOS, AND THE ASSEMBLY AND THE WORLD HAD AN EVIL `MARRIAGE', RESULTING IN A ""MIXTURE"" OF IDOLATRY AND IMMORALITY (AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE NAME 'PERGAMOS' MEANS - MIXTURE).
YISHARAL WAS MARRIED TO YAHUAH AND ANY OTHER ALLIANCE WAS SPIRITUAL ADULTERY AND IDOLATRY.
SO THE DOCTRINE OF BALAAM AND THE NICOLAITANS WERE ALMOST IDENTICAL, CRUSHING CRUSHING THE COMMON FOLK AND ELEVATING THE PRIEST-CLASS, TEACHING THAT IMMORALITY, CORRUPTION, FORNICATION AND IDOLATRY ARE ALL PERMISSIBLE UNDER THE LOVING FAVOUR OF YAHUSHA. IT WAS A MIXTURE OF PAGAN RITES WITH THE WORSHIP OF YAHUSHA, WHO HATES MIXTURE.
THESE CLASSES ABUSED PAUL'S TEACHING ON YAHUSHA'S FORGIVENESS AND CONTINUED SINNING SO THAT `FAVOUR MIGHT ABOUND'. PAUL, HOWEVER, SAYS THAT FAVOUR CAN ONLY 'REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUS BEHAVIOUR'. ALL WHO HAVE DIED TO SIN CAN NO LONGER LIVE IN SIN.
BALAAM PEOPLE TAUGHT THAT ANYTHING GOES, JUST LIKE TODAY AS WE SEE DEPRAVITY CELEBRATED, LGBTQI MINDSETS AND MANY TEACH THAT SCRIPTURAL SEX & FOOD PRINCIPLES ARE BIGOTED, PRIMITIVE AND OUTDATED, UNAPPLICABLE TO US TODAY.
ANYTHING IS ACCEPTED, GENDER IS FLUID, MORALS ARE SELF-DEFINED AND ALL RESTRICTIONS AGAINST SEXUAL SINS ARE BEING COMPLETELY ERODED AS PORN AND MASTURBATION IS NOT ONLY SPOKEN ABOUT AS THOUGH NORMAL, BUT RECOMMENDED AS HEALTHY. THE TEACHING OF BILAAM (JUST AS THE DAYS OF SODOM AND NOAH) IS ALIVE AND WELL TODAY (EVEN IN THE BODY) JUST AS IT WAS IN PERGAMOS IN JOHN’S ERA.
And some of you are even following the teachings of the Nicolaitanes which I absolutely hate! So Repent! Or I'll be there quick-smart to fight against these wicked people. And trust Me, My Words will cut like a sword! If you've got ears then LISTEN to what I'm saying to the Assemblies.
BALAAM WAS SLAIN BY A SWORD !!
To everyone who overcomes, I’ll give some of the hidden manna to eat ...
THE VISIBLE MANNA (`ANGEL FOOD' MEANING `WHAT IS IT?') IN THE WILDERNESS APPEARED AND WAS COLLECTED AND SUSTAINED YISHARAL FOR SIX DAYS EVERY WEEK (DOUBLE HAD TO BE COLLECTED TO KEEP FOR THE SHABATH DAY OF REST). THE VISIBLE MANNA WAS REMEMBERED THROUGH THE 12 LOAVES OF SHOWBREAD IN THE TABERNACLE, WHICH THE PRIESTS WOULD EAT EVERY SHABATH, LIT UP BY THE LIGHT OF THE CANDLESTICK.
A PORTION OF THAT MANNA WAS HIDDEN (TO ALL BUT THE HIGH-PRIEST) IN A POT AND PLACED IN THE ARK IN THE MOST SET-APART PLACE, TO BE TOUCHED ONLY ONCE A YEAR ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.
YAHUSHA ANNOUNED THAT HE IS THE BREAD OF LIFE THAT CAME FROM ABOVE AND THAT THE TEMPLE IS NOW OUR BODIES. SO JUST AS HE WAS HIDDEN THEN, ANOINTING AND SPEAKING TO ONLY A FEW CHOSEN ONES, TODAY HE IS STILL HIDDEN FROM THE UNBELIEVING WORLD, BUT DWELS IN HEARTS OF HIS HIDDEN BRIDE, THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR HIM AS THE HIDDEN MANNA, FEEDING AND ENERGIZING, LEADING AND GUIDING THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD’S IDOLATRY. (INSTEAD OF SATAN THE ABOMINATION SITTING ON THE THRONE OF HEARTS).
THE HIDDEN MANNA BRINGS ETERNAL LIFE AND A TRANSFORMATION `INTO IMMORTALITY' FOR THE OVERCOMER UPON YAHUSHA'S RETURN.
... and I'll give each one of you a white stone with a new name written on it as well. And no one will know that new name except the one who’s received the stone.
IN JOHN’S ERA A WHITE STONE WAS THE TYPICAL MEANS OF ADMISSION TO AN EVENT OR PUBLIC FESTIVAL (LIKE A TICKET TO THE WEDDING FEAST). ALSO, IN A PUBLIC TRIAL, A WHITE STONE MEANT A VOTE OF ACQUITTAL AND INNOCENCE, WHILE A BLACK STONE WAS A VOTE OF GUILT BY EACH JURY MEMBER.
A WHITE STONE WAS ALSO GIVEN AS A PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP IN A NEW TOWN OR COUNTRY.
A WHITE STONE WAS ALSO GIVEN TO A BRIDE AND GROOM UPON THEIR BETROWTHAL, AS A PROMISE (LIKE AN ENGAGEMENT RING TODAY). THE STONE WAS SPLIT AND THE BRIDE'S NAME ETCHED ON ONE SIDE AND THE GROOM'S ON THE OTHER, SOON TO BE JOINED TOGETHER.
SO FOR AN OVERCOMER TO RECEIVE A WHITE STONE WITH A NEW NAME WRITTEN UPON IT (OVERCOMING THE WORLD AND CHANGING THEIR BEHAVIOUR) MEANT THAT THEY ARE SO THOROUGHLY CHANGED AND BLAMELESS THROUGH THE OBEDIENCE AND TRUST IN YAHUSHA THAT THEIR OLD IDENTITY (LINEAGE, RACE, CUSTOM, LIFESTYLE) WILL BECOME A THING OF THE PAST AND THEY WILL RECEIVE A NEW AND PURE IDENTITY (THROUGH THE NAME OF THEIR BRIDEGROOM) AND ENGRAFTED INTO A NEW REIGN. WHAT A HOPE WE HAVE! WHAT A FUTURE AWAITS THE OVERCOMERS.
A NEW NAME SPEAKS OF IDENTITY AND REPUTATION (NOT A LITERAL CHANGING OF OUR NAME, FOR WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT!) A WOMAN (SYMBOL OF ASSEMBLY) IS NAMED BY HER PARENTS AT BIRTH AND THEN NAMED BY HER HUSBAND. SO AS WE ARE IMMERSED AND TAKE ON THE ONLY NAME OF OUR BRIDEGROOM YAHUSHA (A NAME WE DONT GET TO DEBATE OR CHOOSE) A NAME REVEALED PERSONALLY TO US BY INNER DIVINE REVELATION (HE'S THE HIDDEN MANNA REMEMBER) AND SEALED ON OUR FOREHEADS, AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A BRIDE AND GROOM FORMS, PREPARING US FOR THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB.
