3 Main Doctrines Jesus HATES in the 7 Final Messages to His Church.
(They are similar):
1. Doctrine of Balaam: Set Stumbling Blocks before God’s people so they can:
A. Eat food (harmless substance) that has been sacrificed to false gods.
B. Commit Fornication (spiritual and physical)
2. Doctrine of Nicolaitanes: Conquering & Corrupting God’s people so they can:
A. Commit Fornication (spiritual, physical)
B. Eat food (harmless substance) that has been sacrificed to false gods.
C. Nicolaitanes is linked closely with doctrine of Balaam. Nicolaitanes means “ to conquer laity.”
3. Doctrine of Jezebel: False Prophetess, False Teaching, Seduces Gods people to:
A. Commit Fornication (spiritual, physical)
B. Eat food (harmless substance) that has been sacrificed to false gods.
Notice that all of these doctrines that Jesus HATES have the same goal, but accomplish it different ways.
Balaam is trickery. “Just try it this way, it’s okay.”
Nicolaitanes is forceful. “Do it! Your ___ if you don’t. It’s okay.”
Jezebel is seduction. “It’ll be alright, it feels good… it’s okay.”
Fornication: Sexual pleasure & contact outside of marriage. Sexual pleasure is derived from chemicals that flow through your brain and bloodstream. It can be stimulated by sight, touch, and other senses. It is derived from your mind, and therefore… your mind is in control of it. Stop it. (Colossians 3:5).
Spiritually, it is allegiance to any Gods other than the true God (Isaiah 23:17, Ezekiel 16:26). It can also mean financial business agreements with sin involved.
Eating food sacrificed to idols. The Bible is clear that there are harmless things that would be otherwise okay, if they weren’t offered up to demons (1 Cor 8, 1 Cor. 10:28). In our culture it’s hard to understand this because we don’t live the same way they did. In their culture, the priests of the idol “god” of the city would promote feasts, games, festivals, etc. It would be like a party or concert or festival “sponsored by Diana”, or “Zeus.” It was kind of like corporate sponsorship today. “The Olympics, brought to you by ACME Inc.” They didn’t have TV, Movies, CDs, or Radio, or Internet. Festivals like this were the main entertainment and pastime of cultures surrounding the New Testament.
Any Christian knows that a piece of chicken is just a piece of chicken. God made it, God owns it. Eat it if you’re hungry! But all over the New Testament (Acts 15:20,29, 1 John 5:21), God instructs His people to display their love for Him by refusing to eat food that had been openly and knowingly offered to false gods. It’s not about the food, it’s about your love for your true God and love for your neighbor in not to causing them to stumble by seeing and following your example.
Although health is an entirely different subject, there are really no “demonic chicken dinners” or “idolatry pizza parlors” around anymore. Nowadays, the idols of entertainment take harmless music, and lace it with demonic deception – lyrically. They take harmless movies, and sacrifice them – via the script to the false gods of greed, fornication, false religions, relativism, atheism, violence, theft, homosexuality, etc…
Beware of those doctrines that Jesus HATES! They will try anyway they can to get you to accept fornication, idolatry, and compromise:
Balaamites will trick you into compromise.
Nicolaitanes will force and corrupt you into compromise.
Jezebellians will teach and seduce you into enjoying compromise.
Stick with Jesus, your first love!
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