REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Seven - "Do the Former Deeds" -Continue

 Nevertheless, Jesus has this encouraging word for the Ephesians: "Still, you do have this, that you hate the deeds of the sect of Nicolaus, which I also hate." (Revelation 2:6) At least they hated sectarian division, just as the Lord Jesus Christ hates it. As the years went by, however, many congregations failed to heed those words of Jesus.  Lack of love for Jehovah, for the truth, and for one another resulted in their drifting  into spiritual darkness.  They became fragmented into numerous quarreling sects.  "Christians" copyists who had no  love for Jehovah removed God's name from Greek manuscripts of the Bible. Lack of love also allowed room for teaching Babylonish  and Grecian doctrines, such as hellfire, purgatory, and the Trinity, in the name of Christianity.  Having no love for God and the truth, most of these who claimed to be Christian ceased to preach the good news of God's Kingdom.  They came to be dominated by a selfish clergy class  that made its own kingdom here on earth. - Compare  1 CORINTHIANS 4:8. 

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