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Hello @B-A-C,This was written to a Church, not unbelievers.Rev 2:2; 'I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;Rev 2:3; and you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary.Rev 2:4; 'But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.Rev 2:5; 'Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.They have already done things for Jesus name's sake. But Jesus tells the church, they need to REPENT or else, I remove your lampstand.Rev 2:13 'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwellsRev 2:14; 'But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.Rev 2:15; 'So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.Rev 2:16; 'Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.Another church, who "did not deny My faith". They are believers, but yet Jesus tells them... repent, or else I will make war against you. ( Gee, I wonder who will win? )Rev 2:19; 'I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first.Rev 2:20; 'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.Rev 2:21; 'I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.Rev 2:22; 'Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds.Yet another church, a church that had "love and faith and service". Yet some of them started following another teaching. Jesus says repent or else.Psa 69:28; May they be blotted out of the book of life And may they not be recorded with the righteous.Rev 3:5; 'He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.Exod 32:33; The LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.
In this entry you refer to churches, who are told to repent of their deeds or they will suffer the consequences. The references you have given are largely from the book of Revelation, from letters written to the churches in existence in the day of the Lord: Two others from the Psalms and from Exodus, in reference to the possibility of erasure from the book of life.
Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris