There's a lot of evidence to prove that obviously this is a stupid doctrine. It's a false doctrine
This should not be adhered to it should be exposed and shown for what it really is
but I think one of the strongest evidence that we can find in the Bible that this concept is fake is the fact that
Within Revelation 2 & 3 we have seven churches highlighted, right?
But one of those churches is called the Church of Ephesus
Well, guess what? We have the Church of Ephesus in the New Testament
We have an entire book dedicated to the church at Ephesus and look what the Bible says Revelation 2 verse 1
Unto the angel of the church at Ephesus write these things saying he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand
Who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks?
I know thy works and thy labor and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them which are evil and has
tried them which say they're apostles and are not and has found them liars and
As born has and has patience and for my namesake has labored and has not fainted
Nevertheless, I have someone against thee because thou has left thy first love
remember therefore once there are fallen and repent and do the first works or else I will come into thee quickly and will remove thy
Candlestick out of his place except thou repent
So we see here that the negative aspect of the church at Ephesus was what they had left their first
Love and it wasn't talking about like their wife
Okay, it's talking about the fact that they had stopped soul winning
Because it later on in verse number five we see that he tells them do the first works
What are the first works preaching the gospel seeing people saved?
That is the first works and this church had a lot of good things about him
But one of the negative things is they stopped soul winning
now keep in mind that the doctrine of
You know Church Ages teaches that each individual Church found in Revelation 2 and 3
Characterizes all the churches of that so-called era now go to 1st Thessalonians chapter 1
So according to their theology or lack thereof they basically believe
That the church at Ephesus that age is characterized by preachers who don't preach the gospel
Churches that are not going out soul winning. They left their first love. They're not doing the first works, right?
That's what it's characterized by
We see that the negative aspect of this certain period so-called period is that they're not soul winning
They're not preaching the gospel. But the problem with that is is that we also have the church and Thessalonica
Which is also in the New Testament, which is around the same time as the church at Ephesus
And in fact look at verse number six of chapter one
It says he became followers of us and of the Lord haven't received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Ghost
So that you were in samples to all that believe in Macedonia Nicaea
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia Nicaea
But also in every place your faith to God word is spread abroad so that we need not to speak anything
You know one thing we know about the church at Thessalonica. They were fervent soul winners
They were out preaching the gospel
in fact
Their example was spreading abroad to all the other churches
People were hearing about their zeal about preaching the gospel and they're so winning efforts. Oh, hold on a second
Hey guys, what are you guys doing? Don't you know who this is the Ephesian the church at Ephesus church here?
What do you guys do? You guys are supposed to be leaving your first works. No here. Here's the thing
here's the truth the truth is these are individual churches and
Not church eras not time periods as the dispensational select to say
These are these are individual churches that have their individual wills
They can basically be on fire for God if they want to they could be lukewarm if they want to be lukewarm
But at the end of the day, they're individual local churches
The church at Thessalonika was a fiery hot
soul-winning
Baptist church amen. That's what it was
It wasn't like the Ephesians. And so this this concept falls apart very quickly just like every other dispensational teaching does
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