Sunday Bible School
April 20, 2025
The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XLV
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Sunday Bible School
April 20, 2025
Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XLV
Summary of the president’s message
The Sunday Bible School on April 20th, 2025 was held live, directly from the Mahanaim in Domingos Martins, state of Espírito Santo, with the participation of pastors Gedelti Gueiros and Gilson Sousa.
Message from pastor Gilson Sousa:
We greet all our brethren with the peace of the Lord Jesus! We are starting the Sunday Bible 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 ofthe Church for the rapture. Pastor Gilson Sousa presented the answers given by various brothers to the questions posed, as well as various experiences and testimonials.
Question
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As a way of reviewing what we have studied and reading Revelation, chapters 2 and 3,
The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XLV
summarize the main historical and prophetic aspects of the Faithful Church, from the period of Ephesus to the period of Sardis, considering: Historical period of each letter:
a. Ephesus
b. Smyrna
c. Pergamos
d. Thyatira
e. Sardis
Answer:
a. Apostolic church; Revelation 2:1.
b. Church of persecution; Revelation 2:8.
c. Imperial Church; Revelation 2:12.
d. The Medieval Church; Revelation 2:18.
e. The church of the Religious Reformation of the 16th century. Revelation 3:1
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a. Ephesus
b. Smyrna
c. Pergamos
e. Sardis
Answer:
a. The Spirit of the Lord –”... ‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands...” Revelation2:1
b. The Spirit of Wisdom–“...These thingssaysthe First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life...”Revelation2:8
c. The Spirit of Understanding) -“...because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak toput a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed to idols... thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.”Revelation2:14-15
d. The Spirit of Counsel-“But hold fast what you have till I come.” Revelation2:25
e. The Spirit of Might–“...who have not defiled their garments...” Revelation3:4
Question
Answered through video con-
tribution
The behavior of the Faithful Church in each of the Seven Letters. Make prophetic application to the church of our day:
a. Ephesus
b. Smyrna
c. Pergamos
d. Thyatira
Pr. Gilson Souza conducting the Sunday Bible School
Pr. Gedelti Gueiros conducting the summary of the Sunday Bible School
The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XLV
d. Thyatira
e. Sardis
Answer:
a. Revelation 2:2-3 -Work, patience -the Church of sowing the seed;
b. Revelation 2:9 -Tribulation, poverty and death;
c. Revelation 2:14-15 -Innovations of heresies -doctrine of the Nicolaitans;
d. Revelation 2:20 -An unfaithful church -the leaven of the woman, Jezebel;
e. Revelation 3:3 -The discovery of the Word -the hidden treasure.
Message from pastor Gedelti Gueiros:
Today, we can say that we are the happiest people in the world because the Lord has openedhis treasures for us. Some have not been able to
achieve everything that has been brought to them on certain levels, but that is not important at all.
Einstein said: “I would rather be a simple operator (farmer) and achieve what simple men achieve by faith, what I am not achieving by science”.
Simple people don’t achieve what the most knowledgeable achieve through science, but they achieve what is most important, because they are grounded in true faith.
Many subjects are being brought up and not everyone has been able to understand. But we are preparing a people for everything that is to come, especially in terms of the challenges that will be imposed by artificial intelligence. There are churches whose pastors, because they have nothing
The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XLV
need for creation. There was no creation for substance to exist. God’s operationis based on his substance. God subsists without needing anyone because he is before all things. When Jesus came into the world, he brought with him what the world needed, namely the knowledge of that substance which became matter, which was the figure of Jesus. When Jesus died, matter disappeared, and substance reappeared in his resurrection. So, substance has to do with faith. There is no faith outside of what the substance of God is, which is the Holy Spirit. So, we come to understand something completely different from what religion explains.
The service is rational. But it’s not a service of reason. It is based on the revelation. Faith comes from above, from the top down and not from the bottom up.
When faith enters your life, it provides for your return to Heaven because it is what takes you to Heaven. Faith shapes our lives and puts us in touch with Heaven.
A distinction needs to be made between what is reason and what is the revelation. Reason comes from man; it passes through our senses and is within the four measures of the universe. Man was made to live this reason in this life. Science is what man discovers what already existed.
(the Holy Spirit). It is what has been generated in your life, Jesus is who was generated in your life. The shell will stay behind, but the pearl will be raptured.
What the Holy Spirit left in your life was God’s substance. He is the one who will sustain and strengthen this faith. It will be strengthened by the early dawns, the church as the body of Christ, and the power of Jesus’ blood.
May the Lord Bless us,
else to say, are urging their members to believe in artificial intelligence toaccept the faith.
A difference needs to be made between substance and matter. Substance is what exists without the
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When Jesus came into this world, substance became matter. For Him to return to eternity, He had to become substance again. The substance was in his resurrection, which was the Holy Spirit that he left upon the church. Jesus left substance, not matter for the church. Matter does not become substance. That’s why man dies. He dies because he is matter and matter does not reach the kingdom of God.
Matter, man, does not reach the kingdom of God. Matter is not transformed into substance, so man dies. In matter, man does not reach the kingdom of God. He can only reach the kingdom when faith (which is God’s substance) transforms him to be in eternity.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, which is your reasonable service” Romans 12:1
Man was prepared to understand this universe of the Work of Creation. The Work of Redemption is different. It comes from above. It does not need to be felt by our senses.
When you accepted Jesus, it was not due to reason. The goal is the mystery, the miracle, that which comes from above, regardless of people’s cultural level. The blessing is the same for everyone, regardless of man’s will.
The Gospel isanoffer from God. When the Gospel enters our lives, something new happens: the new birth. However, everyone has the right to choose or reject. The Gospel is the rule of the Holy Spirit in your life. Our struggle is to let go of the one who is producing the pearl in our life
Pr. Gedelti Gueiros President of the Maranata Christian Church
Sunday Bible School
April 20, 2025
The Preparation of the Church for the Rapture - Revelation - Part XLV