Introduction To Church History
Our verse-by-verse study of the Book of Revelation has brought us to the 7 letters Jesus dictated to 7 churches in Asia minor in Revelation 2 and 3. These 7 letters actually provide an outline for understanding the last 19 centuries of Church History. In Pastor Mark’s opinion, these 2 chapters are the most critical chapters in the entire book for believers living in the last days to understand!
Recap in 10 Tweets
- Understanding history isn’t simply understanding WHAT, WHERE & WHEN events happened…but WHY & HOW they happened! #WordStrong
- Christianity today thinks it sees the spiritual lay of the land perfectly. Jesus, however, says we’re BLIND. (Rev. 3:17) #WordStrong
- Rather than “overcoming the wicked one,” most Christians doctrinally are an “accident waiting to happen.” #WordStrong
- Karl Marx said, “If you can separate people from their history, you can convince them of anything.” #WordStrong
- God is the God of history. It is actually the unfolding of “His Story.” #WordStrong
- God lets us know that He is going to reveal history to us before it happens! (Isa. 42:9; 46:9–10) #WordStrong
- In studying history, we must not LEAVE the BIBLE! It is our STANDARD for interpreting it. #WordStrong
- The devil keeps changing his clothes & his mask so we can’t find him in history. (Job 41:13-14) #WordStrong
- To know where you’re GOING you must know where you ARE. To know where you ARE you must know where you’ve BEEN. (Ecc. 3:15) #WordStrong
- The Book of Acts is God’s FLIGHT PLAN to let us know the course and direction church history is heading. #WordStrong
