The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XXX

Sunday Bible School December 29, 2024

The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XXX

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The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XXX say, I will put in you no other burden.” Revelation 2:24

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The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XXX Summary of the president’s message

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he Sunday Bible School on December 29th, 2024, was held live, directly from the Communications Center of the Maranatha Christian Church, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, with the participation of pastors Gedelti Gueiros, Gilson Sousa and Josias Junior.

Message from pastor Gilson Sousa: We greet all our brethren with the peace of the Lord Jesus!

We are starting the Sunday Bi-

ble School. The subject to be presented is the book of Revelation: the message of the Holy Spirit resonates in the midst of the Faithful Church, in relation to the prophetic markers that are being fulfilled in our day, in the preparation of the Church for the rapture.

Pastor Gilson Sousa presented the answers given by various brethren to the questions posed, as well as various experiences and testimonies.

Message from pastor Gedelti Gueiros:

Answer: Christianity became a Christian ideology and deviated from the faith. It destroyed the Word, the Blood and the Faith through the misleading teaching of the church universities. “[...] to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.” Revelation 2:20

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Reading Revelation, Chapter 2, verse 20, what damage did the woman do to Christianity when she mixed leaven into the 3 measures of wheat?

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[Answered through video] Reading Revelation chapter 2, verse 24, what is the difference between Christianity and the Gospel after the period of the church of Thyatira, when the church deviated from the prophetic?

Answer: The Gospel is the message that comes from the revelation of the Holy Spirit; Christianity is that which accepts all kinds of messages from man’s reason.

Pr. Gilson Souza conducting the Sunday Bible School

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“Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they

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[Answered through video] Based on Revelation, chapter 2, verse 21, what advice did the Lord Jesus give to the church in Thyatira?

Answer: Repentance, within the prophetic time possible for this.

“And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent”. Revelation 2:21

Question [Answered through video] Reading Revelation, chapter 2, verse 2, identify what kind of opposition was evident in Ephesus.

What resource was used to combat this opposition?

Answer: Opposition to the apostles’ doctrine: the Word.

Resource used: the letters of the apostles in establishing the doctrine “[...] And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;” Revelation 2:2

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“[...] and you will have tribulation ten days.” Revelation 2:10

Question [Answered through video] Reading Revelation, chapter 2, verse 13, identify the external opposition that was evident in Pergamos.

Answer: The throne of Satan.

“I know your works, and Where you dwell, Where Satan’s throne is [...]”. Revelation 2:13

Question [Answered through video] Reading Revelation, chapter 2, verses 14 and 15, identify the internal opposition that was

evident in Pergamos. What resource did the Lord use to combat this opposition?

Answer: The doctrine of Balaam and the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Resource used by the Lord: The sharp two-edged sword, through the operation of the Spirit of Intelligence or discernment. Vs 12 - The sword from the mouth of the Lord. Vs 16. “[...] because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality” Revelation 2:14

[Answered through video] Reading Revelation, chapter 2, verses 9 and 10, identify the internal and external oppositions that were evident in Smyrna.

Answer: Religion Internal opposition: opposition from Judaizing believers - verse 9.

External opposition: persecution from the Roman Empire - verse 10 “[...] and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.” Revelation 2:9 BIBLICAL INSTITUTE MARANATHA CHRISTIAN CHURCH

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The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XXX

The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XXX “For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out of this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.” Jude 1:4

That is why it is necessary to preserve the action of the Holy Spirit in our midst. The Holy Spirit works from the inside out.

“Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.” Revelation 2:15

Comment from pastor Gedelti Gueiros: The Lord took away from the group, that followed the doctrines of Satan’s throne, the ones who were faithful. Apostle Paul’s emphasis when writing to the Corinthians was clear.

“Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, it is not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.

Observe Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sa-

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crifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.” I Corinthians 10:14-21

There is an important detail in the question about the damage caused by the woman in Christianity. This woman is mentioned in the parable of the leaven in Matthew 13.

“Another parable He spoke to them: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.’”

Matthew 13:33

permeated down through the years, reaching right up to the present day.

One of Jude’s (the apostle) concerns was to show the danger of introducing what comes from outside, bringing it into the church.

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She introduced yeast into the 3 measures of meal (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). When the doctrine of the Trinity is taken and yeast is added, the result is a leavening of the dough. The mixture of yeast in the three measures of flour caused a great deal of damage that has BIBLICAL INSTITUTE MARANATHA CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Regarding the Gospel and Christianity, it is necessary to make a difference. In Thyatira, there was a change from a prophetic church to a political church. The concern of this political church was with large temples and wealth. Christianity is a mixture. It accepts everything that comes from outside. But the Gospel is different. Because the operation of the Gospel comes from the top down and works from the inside out. The Gospel comes from eternity to redeem man and take him to eternity.

The call to repentance was issued by the Lord for the time of Thyatira.

“And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.” Revelation 2:21

Message from pastor Gedelti Gueiros: I greet you all with the peace of the Lord. I would like to make a comment in regard to the question about opposition.

“I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s

throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.” Revelation 2:13 (emphasis added) “Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not

have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden.” Revelation 2:24 (emphasis added)

The depths of Satan refer to the action of removing from the life of the church the project of eternity proposed by the Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). The woman came and added leaven. She put idolatry, witchcraft and prostitution/sexual immorality in place of the 3 measures of flour. At that moment, the Gospel lost its prophetic and fundamental characteristic, lived by the Apostolic Church. As a result, the church began to live by rites and dogmas, to the point of saying that man didn’t need Jesus. In other words, Jesus was no longer the foundation, but man. Man was divinized and God was humanized.

The mysteries were abandoned and there was no interest in what is prophetic. The enemy established his throne at that time, and it remains established to this day. It is important to emphasize that human reason and religious reason are different things. We cannot understand the God who created all things becoming a vile object with no value. But man’s philosophical and theological ideas have replaced the God of creation.

tolerate anything new.

“Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden.” Revelation 2:24 (emphasis added)

The burden, prophesied in Thyatira, has come to our day, but it will pass, in the fall of Babylon.

Our great difficulty is to remove this religious understanding from people’s minds. Today, we are showing the project of salvation which is completely different from what religion is.

Thyatira exists to this day and oversees the world. The depths of the enemy are present in people’s minds.

That’s why there’s a church that needs to prepare itself in the face of everything that’s out there.

May the Lord bless us.

Pr. Gedelti Gueiros President of the Maranata Christian Church

Thus, the church moved away from what was prophetic and into a human story, until, in 1517, Luther presented the 4 fundamental aspects of the Gospel in the religious reformation of the 16th century.

But in the letter to Thyatira, a promise was made: “I will put on you no other burden”. From then on, the church would not

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