The Church in Thyatira
1.Read Revelation 2:18.
2.What good works characterized the church in Thyatira?
Charity, service, faith, patience.
3.What was the church in Thyatira permitting to continue in its midst?
A teaching of worldly lusts.
4.Read Revelation 2:20.
5.To whom was Jezebel married?
King Ahab of Israel.
6.Whom did Jezebel worship?
Baal and Asherah; demon gods of lust.
7.What spirit has attempted to take charge of the churches of Christ from the days of the first apostles?
The spirit of worldly lusts.
8.How are the churches of Christ to be ruled?
By godly elders who act in cooperation with the Holy Spirit, themselves being under the discipline of the will of the Spirit of God.
9.Describe the spirit of Jezebel.
The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
10.How does the spirit of worldly lusts conceal its true nature?
By calling itself a &uot;prophetess&uot;—the will of Christ for the assembly.
11.How can we recognize the Jezebel spirit at work in the churches?
There will be pressure on the ministry to permit increased revelry, worldly gaiety, eating, drinking, sexual license.
12.Is it wise to judge the worth of a church by the number of people who attend?
No.
13.Will &uot;Jezebel&uot;—worldly Christians—participate in the first resurrection?
No.
14.What is the proper way to deal with the Jezebel spirit?
Throw it out of the church.
15.Read II Kings 9:33.
16.Should Christ&rsuo;s conuerors enter a discussion with worldly people concerning how the saints of God should behave?
No. The conuerors are to cast down the world spirit and stamp on it with the bronze feet of Divine judgment.
17.Read Revelation 2:21.
18.What does Thyatira mean?
Sacrifice.
19.What does the Jezebel spirit teach us to do?
Worship demons. The teachings of both Balaam and Jezebel lead to demon worship.
20.What will happen to those who continue to teach and to practice worldly lusts?
Christ will send on those evildoers a deluding spirit and will bring them into tribulation.
21.Read Revelation 2:22.
22.What does God do to us if we choose the way of Satan over the way of God?
God sends on us a strong delusion such that we no longer can hear or see Christ but are chained by evil spirits.
23.Why must the saint guard his heart with diligence?
If he persists in lawlessness God finally will give him what he is demanding.
24.Read Revelation 22:11. Notice the lack of opportunity for repentance in this verse.
25.What is one of the main characteristics of Hell?
We are placed in the midst of those who love and practice the evil we have chosen to love and practice.
26.What will happen to us if we keep on loving and practicing evil?
There will come a day when we no longer can cease loving and practicing it.
27.Read Revelation 2:23.
28.If we continue in worldly lusts, with what will we be &uot;killed&uot;?
Spiritual death, the second death—the death that is the absence of the eternal Life of God that is in Christ.
29.If we choose to walk in the flesh, with what will we be filled at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ?
The corruption of our flesh.
30.What choice are we making now?
We are attaining the resurrection from the dead or we are walking in the flesh and dying spiritually.
31.In the Day of the Lord, what will happen to the resurrection life that we at this time are nourishing within us?
The light of Christ that has been formed in us will blaze forth in the glorious revelation of His forthshining, His Presence.
32.What will happen to the believer who continues to walk in the appetites and desires of the flesh?
That glorious resurrection life will be removed from him. His lampstand will be removed from its place. If we live in the appetites of the flesh we will die, we will not participate in the rewards to the overcomer, including the first resurrection from the dead. We have not attained the resurrection by seeking to experience the fullness of the Life of Christ.
33.What is every human being on the earth doing continually?
Making his or her offering to his or her God.
34.What will his end be if his god is the devil?
Spiritual death.
35.What will his end be if his God is the Lord?
Eternal life.
36.Read Romans 12:1-2.
37.Who makes the choice concerning our state in the Day of the Lord?
We do.
38.When do we make that choice?
Now.
39.What will each believer reap?
Exactly what he has sown, whether or not he belongs to one of the Christian churches, whether or not he professes the name of Christ.
40.Read Revelation 2:24.
41.How does the Lord Jesus feel about the &uot;depths of Satan&uot;?
The Lord Jesus does not consider any sin to be a &uot;depth of Satan&uot; because there is no depth in Satan.
42.What is true of Christ?
Christ is an inexhaustible depth of wonders and delights in whom the inuiring saint will discover treasures forever.
43.Read Revelation 2:25.
44.What type of attitude and conduct characterizes the Christian overcomer?
Patient steadfastness in Christian faith and conduct is the mark of the conueror.
45.What reward will be given to the conueror?
His reward will be to rule with Christ over the nations of the earth during the thousand-year Kingdom Age known as the Millennium.
46.Read Revelation 2:26.
47.What will bring the Kingdom of God into the earth?
The change of personages on the spiritual thrones that govern the earth.
48.What are the experiences of this present life preparing us for?
They are for the purpose of teaching us to rule correctly in Christ under God.
49.Read Revelation 2:27.
50.Where is the rod of iron now?
The rod of iron is being formed now in the personality ofeach conueror.
51.What is a rod of iron?
A rod of iron is the strength to bring ourselves and our environment, as the Spirit of God guides and enables, under the discipline of Christ.
52.What is being created now in each overcomer?
A wall of defense against sin and rebellion.
53.How are we to treat our own body?
We are to bring our body into subjection. We are to rule our desires and feelings with an iron hand.
54.What is the member of the Body of Christ in terms of the Divine judgment?
The weapon that the Spirit of God employs in performing the will of the Father.
55.What will Christ do to the nations of the earth at His coming?
He will fall on them suddenly, breaking them into pieces as it pleases Him.
56.How much disobedience to Christ will be permitted in the Kingdom of God?
There will be no gainsaying, no rebellion, no dallying concerning obedience to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ.
57.Read Daniel 7:26-27.
58.What additional aspect of the first resurrection will be given to the saint who overcomes the worldly lusts of the church in Thyatira?
The &uot;morning star.&uot;
59.Who or what is the &uot;morning star&uot;?
Christ.
60.Read II Peter 1:19.
61.What will take place before the Kingdom Age comes to the earth?
There will be formed in each conueror a personal day of the Lord, a personal kingdom age. The day of the Lord has its rise in us as every work of sin and self is cast down in us and the Lord alone is exalted.
62.How can we tell when a personal day of the Lord is being created in us?
When the Lord alone is exalted in us.
63.What is the necessary preparation of the conueror for the great and terrible Day of the Lord that is at hand?
A change of dominion must take place in him.
64.What is the mystery of the Gospel?
Christ in us.
65.Why does the Lord Jesus demand so much from the saint and deal with him or her endlessly?
We are being married to Christ. Christ intends to dwell
not only with us but in us.
66.Will the Bride finally be without spot or wrinkle?
Yes.
67.What is our principal responsibility and task?
To obey the Lord through the help the Spirit gives us.
68.What will happen if we keep the Word of Christ faithfully?
The Father and the Son will come to us and our desires will be changed from those that are opposed to Christ&rsuo;s will into those that are in harmony with Christ&rsuo;s intentions. We shall begin to do the will of God by nature. This is the coming of the Kingdom of God to us and the fulfilment of the new covenant.
69.What is one important aspect of the first resurrection from the dead?
The transformation of our will into the will of Christ.