First and Last Church Age
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Neal Frisby, First and Last Church Age| BK 14 | July 1, 1973
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The following notes and excerpts are taken from the message delivered by Evangelist Neal Frisby. These excerpts do not represent all pertinent statements from the message.
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Pg 4
God said He was coming in clouds of glory and the prophets looked and they said they saw the glory of the Lord and Solomon said it was so thick it rolled in the Temple -- they couldn't even minister then!
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He's coming back the same way to reveal these things to His people -- let's praise the Lord! "Remember, saith the Lord, in the Scriptures the evidence is there. Remember when the mount quaked before Moses and the fire descended. Remember, saith the Lord, the glory on Sinai and Horeb. Remember the prophet Elijah when I came to him. And Moses too, when I cam down and the Glory of the Lord was on the mountain top and they all stood afar off and gazed upon My powers, saith the Lord!
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Behold, will not the Lord who did it for them in that dispensation of time, how much more will He do it through the Blood Covenant of the Lord Jesus Christ? How much more will I, saith the Lord, reveal the same glories unto the Elect Bride that I have sent upon the earth and am bringing back unto Myself? I will reveal more, saith God, unto them -- the likes of which the world has never seen! I am the Lord and none else besides!" Praise the Lord!
He said how much more, before even Christ came, and He came down and revealed Himself to the Jews which later rejected Him. How much more to us in this dispensation -- He will not hide Himself from the Elect Bride. He's going to openly reveal it to the Bride because that's the one He's going to take.
Did you ever marry somebodyd that you didn't get to see? It's impossible! You can't marry your husband if you don't know what he looks like or what he is. The Lord is going to do that for us! That's the symbols of the Lord and we'll see attributes of the Holy Spirit until it's like a wheel within a wheel and dimension after dimension after dimension and hundreds and hundreds of dimensions of the Lord and channels and light waves and powers and glories. It's the Lord, He's God!
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Now the revival to the Bride is not going to reach out like some people think [a physical gathering] -- all over the world (in notoriety). There will be a Spirit of God poured out upon all flesh in different manners all over the world, but the Bride is different -- He's going to draw them into something. Because, you see, you've got the foolish virgins, you've got the Tribulation, you've got all those different people there, you see, that God's dealing with. You've got the Bride of Jesus christ, because Paul said as the sun differs from one and the moon and the stars -- the Lord -- but He's got a people, and that pure people -- they will get the most from God an it will be "thus said the Lord" when He comes to them and not only that it'll be "thus saith the Lord Jesus Christ"! It'll be God!
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Pg7
He's going to come over us and take us up and everyone that's covered with the glory of the Lord like this is going to be taken away!
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We'll be in the image, the very image of God, spiritually and right in His image, when He gets ready to rapture us. Because the Bible says we're to conform to His image -- in His image, believing in the power of the Holy Spirit, believing in the gifts of the Spirit, believing in the Word of God, believing in the things He has.
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Now we'll turn to the Book of Revelation and Chapter 1:4.
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Revelation 1:4
4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
Revelation 1:10-11
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
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Pg 9
Now Sardis was the age of the reformation we saw like a Sardis cloud there, a red color -- the power of the Lord!
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Revelation 1:20
20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
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Seven messengers [angels] went to seven churches.
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During history, this takes in history at the beginning and also takes in history right down through the ages, you can apply it both ways. There were seven letters, was first to the local churches that existed during the days of the Apostles -- in John's time. And also they carried a prophetic foreview of the stages of the church right down through history today. Came right down to today. But they started as literal churches in Asia and the Apostles helped set them up. Paul being the one to Ehesus and John was banished or put on the Isle of Patmos and they were going to leave him.
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Now he went on the Isles of Patmos -- Domitian put him there, one of the Roman Emperors and left him there. Then when he received the revelation under Nerva, they brought him back. And John was brought back but he had the Book of Revelations. And about that time that John died -- I think it was 90 AD or somewhere then, when he died the Ephesus age had ended. Then it began to go back in a spiritual age one after another right up to the time of this age. [about 2,000 years]
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Now at Ephesus -- the church at Ephesus, it was an apostolic period. It was set up with tremendous power and tremendous gifts and the apostles were there and it lasted so many years and then about the time that John died that church age began to go out. And Paul wept and the Apostle Paul, which said -- I fought beasts at Ephesus.
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Pg 10
And they thought Diana the goddess was real and they had a temple about 400 feet long and 200 feet wide. And Paul said it was brutes! He named some more vile things which took place in the temple. He fought down there with the church with great fits and great power and he began to tell the people to be careful. He was going to have to leave and he was going to Rome.
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The church age was beginning to end and they had great gifts but the Bible said and Jesus said to them in that church age -- He said, Repent! Because after they began to die away they lost their first love! Paul wept with tears in his eyes and he told them -- the apostolic period where miracles had been wrought -- he said wolves will creep in and said heresies from right among you will spring up from your own and they'll begin to lead you away. And after many tears in his eyes, he left them knowing they would utterly begin to turn into darkness.
Then after John died later, the whole church age began to go off. Paul went to Rome -- Nero was the one, they claim, that killed him and his head was cut off. But the church age began then in what we call Smyrna. Now that was the age of persecution and it began to take hold. A spiritual church age, and the age of Smyrna was the age where they had to die! The apostolic age of Ephesia began to fade -- now it's like a rainbow, one fades in and it dies away then another color fades in.
We're in Smyrna -- which was the second one that Jesus told them. he said to be faithful and they'd get a crown. They had to seal their faith in their blood. They were persecuted, they were ridiculed, they were killed. They didn't have the gifts of the first early church, they were a church that simply had to believe in the Lord and they were refined like gold that comes through fire. And they were persecuted and, I would say, slaughtered for their faith. It was an hour of tribulation for them in Smyrna age that blended right in.
As we know, during this time the worse persecution that began to come was under Nero. But then right after this, I think it was Diocletian, and he took the people's property, he put them to stakes, he burned them, he killed them, he slaughtered them until there was just blood running in every direction.
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You can read the Book of Martyers on just how much persecution and how millions died through pagan Rome. They wanted Imperial Worship and all of these things began to take place at that time -- that's the Smyrna age, and the Lord told them to be faithful.
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Pg 11
Today, He has given us love. Today, we can come to the Lord and we can evangelize. We have an open door and we can do these things, but I'm afraid in my heart, if some of the peole don't get tuned in then He's going to bring persecution on them like they've never seen before -- because He knows how to bring you. We don't want to see it come in that direction -- we want that Bride to hear His voice. But He's going to bring pressure and when He does, brother, they will line up.
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But that Smyrna age had to come through the fire and they were ready to meet the Lord! They didn't have the supernatural gifts like the church age (Ephesus) before them, it faded out of the picture. Remember in the Ephesus age He said -- I'll remove your candlestick. He said, Repent and go back -- you've lost your first love! he said, Repent in this hour! Then the age died away and He told them -- then came Smyrna through the persecution age where pagan Rome began to sway and have great power then.
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After the Smyrna age they had the Pergamos age begin. But here's what happened, in the Pergamos age the Lord was able, or had a supernatural way of deterring the persecution in some way. Now it gets right into friendship with the world now and you're getting into that -- it's the age of Pergamos where it says the Nicolaitanes and the Balaamites. In that age -- Constantine, was during the Roman time then. Constantine saw a cross and he told the people that he saw a cross and by this you will conquer -- and he did.
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So he began to lift the persecution from the Christians and it became a popular thing and then the Church began to join the world and the world began to join the Church. Pagan Rome was there and they began to join one another and the persecution was lifted in the Pergamos age, but they had a friendship with the world and God warned them and gave them warnings not to do that. But right on in, they went right on in. Then even the heathen was baptized in the Church and then they brought in paganism.
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So they mixed it together and it was only paving the way for Thyatira which was the Papal Church to come and Jezebel religion. They began to mix together -- conglomerate thing, a mongolization and they began to come together and the heathen were baptized in it and the Christians were involved and pagan Rome was involved in it. The whole thing became a worldly church and it just laid the pattern and plans for Papal rule -- he was on his way then.
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When that age began to die out and blend into another age -- we have the Thyatira age the Bible says and it began to spring forth in the centuries that went up through it. In that age -- when they all got together and made a world church type thing out of it, then the Thyatira began to take over -- Jezebel -- the Babylonians. They mixed in with this because pagan Rome began to fall and when it did the pagan Rome went off the scene and the Pope at that time, he stepped right in the vacuum. When he stepped in he usurped power and became the Pope of all Christiandom at this time and he became, of the earth, the head one and he began to take over in power.
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So then it was Babylonian mixed with paganism then the Christian -- it was mixed in there like that. It became Jezebel in their religion. The Bible says -- how I hate that woman Jezebel and you've eaten things sacrificed to idols. so that was the great Dark Ages set in and sin was allowed for money and they could do anything, and it began to set in real deep into the church age during that time.
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So we see a mongoloid taking place, we see them just conglomerate all together, all them just mixed up together until what -- they had nothing, they had literally nothing! [nothing Godly] God forewarned them and told them -- He said the Nicolaitanes, He hated and the doctrines of Balaamism. He told them about it in the Scriptures in the Book of Revelation. Then He did something. Now three of those are church ages came there like that, the apostolic -- the Ephesus apostolic, then the Smyrna and then the Pergamos and then the Thyatira -- the fourth one. It's the fifth one then that He brought the Sardis age and when He did, He sent forth a spark of power!
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Now all of you know the Lutherans as we know them today and Martin Luther was Catholic at that time. He pulled back, it got so bad there there was a reformation to begin! God was going to let His Light shine back from that Catholic (M. Luther)! And he came out of it with this and the Word of God. When he did, he said the just shall live by faith! But he could see it so well because they had gotten so far from God that he knew the Lord had to do something. He looked upon them and there was no hope -- they were so deep in sin and yet what they had, they called God.
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So we have the age of Sardis -- it is called in the Bible. He came out and he began to have fervor and he preached similar to us today and some miracles were even wrought at the time, but not like the early church, but they were wrought. He preached the just shall live by faith and pounded and parted until the seed began to grow and it was powerful. God began to bring the spark back that was in Ephesus in the first Apostolic age. Power began to appear -- they couldn't stop him, the whole Roman army couldn't stop him there or the hierarchy at the time.
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Now that's another church age, it wasn't good enough but it got the fire started. God began to move on towards where we're at today. Then the next church age, it began to lap over into the Philadelphia. Blessed be the Name of the Lord! He went over into Philadelphia age which was a little more than what they got in the Sardis age under Luther then and they went right on over there.
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It was the Wesley brothers who came and the great missionary field opened up and He said I've put an open door before you and a door no man can shut and no man can open. He said I'll write upon you my new name. (And I believe it was in the third age He said, I'll write a name within the stone, but this one here He said -- I'll write a new name upon you). He gave them this promise -- and open door and the Lord began to talk to them. It was the Church of Philadelphia love and then the great missionary age began to set in, and the power of the Lord began to visit in a stronger way than they had ever seen.​
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The Luther church was justification by faith, then it come sanctification in power. It began to go on, it got powerful and powerful and the whole world began to evangelize. It was a missionary age then of the open door. The one the Lord admonished there was the Philadelphia church age -- that His hear was. The Philadelphia church age -- is the closest to what God wants us to mix with what He gives today and what He has today.
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​He'll take the power like the Ephesus church then -- the apostolic gifts and put it in with the love that's over here in Philadelphia and the open door and I'm telling you, no man can shut it and no man can open it -- but God can do it!
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pg 14
Then the Philadelphia church begins to overlap into what we have today -- that came in the 1900's and something. And at the end of the Philadelphia age, the gifts begin to spring forth and pentecost and holiness and power and Laodicea begin to get started there. It overlapped and Philadelphia run right on.
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Now we're running right together here and we go into Laodicea you might say, but God's children are not going to go into there. Because in the Laodicean age, they said we are rich -- in Laodicea -- and we have need of nothing, said we are full. And the Lord said -- I counsel you to buy white raiment and gold refined in the fire. The Lord said, I rebuke you -- and the Lord was on the outside knocking. The Laodiceans put Him out, which was the last church age we're living in right now -- which all of those ages are joined together for bundling --in that Laodicea.
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The Lord said this -- knocking on the outside -- He told them when they said they were full and had need of nothing He said -- you're naked, wretched and blind!
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[Observation Note: In the last church age of Laodicea, they put the Lord Jesus Christ (all seeing eye) "out" which parallels Samson the last Judge, when they literally put his eyes out.]
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​And they said they had God, but he was on the outside -- He wasn't even there! Now watch this, He said because you're lukewarm, He said because you're neither hot nor cold -- He said I'm going to spew you out of My mouth! That's Laodicea!
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Pg 15
The Bride of Jesus Christ will not go into that Laodicean system because He spit it out of His mouth!
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Laodicea is all of those churches that come together here and today, and right in the Protestants, they'll all come together -- all of those Protestants. [Observation note: very interesting that the root word of Protestants is protest!]. Now they won't have to call themselves Catholics like that, but they'll all come together in an image of the Beast and when they come together then I mean millions and millions, it'll be in the image of the devil it won't be God!
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​It'll come in together and they'll put a holy man in front of them. There'll be a holy man like the Pope is in Rome and they'll make an image unto him, and he'll talk like him and then pretty soon he'll get nearly everything. And when all those churches, Protestants -- they'll have a holy man then watch and see -- he'll be a great leader in the nation and they'll work together then and when they do they'll combine their forces together and the mark of the beast will be on the face of the earth and God said -- I'll spew them out of My mouth, I'll meet them at Armageddon and we'll find out where God's at. I'll draw those three frogs down there and we'll see how far they can jump and croak! (Rev. 16:13)
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God is going to do it and gather all nations to Armageddon! And pour out the vials upon the beasts's kingdom -- all go down there, the beast and the false prophet and the dragon. God said so Himself! So you see the Laodicean age apostatizing with a holy man and then the Romans apostatizing with the Pope or a holy man, a religious man -- apostatizing all over the world. Now those forces the Bible says whether they ever call themselves this or not -- indirectly they will be like the others before them. Because it says the Harlot will go back and they will go back into the whore system -- which is called Mystery Babylon.
[Observation note: Protestants began with a protest against organized religion, then return back into the beast system by protesting God's authorized word]
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That's your false churches upon the face of the earth and the sorcery and in her was found the blood of the prophets and the sorceries and all of this mingled. It will be like Thyatira when they all -- pagan and all of them -- got together there in a conglomeration we were talking about. They'll all get together and they'll all be on that mixed pale horse just riding right straight to Armegeddon! -- and death was written on him -- "And Christ the Word of God with life translated the Bride!"
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I was reading in history, Nero -- I think he died in his 30's, I didn't know that I thought he was older, but he was a madman. That sleeping demon woke in that fellow and when Paul went up to Rome, he stirred the devil up and, man, this guy Nero he just was -- the devil got ahold of him, and when he did he used to get in his chariot -- he was always for chariot races -- and he would ride out to where they would hang the Christians up or on crosses and kill them. He was such a blood-thirsty fellow, just full of the devil, and he came out with his chariot -- hail Caesar, Caesar -- and he'd come up through there and he'd watch them kill them. They'd bury them all around the castle and all around where he was at and in the Catacombs. Just killed them by the thousands.
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Now history says -- they believe this is what did it, he set fire to the city himself and then blamed the Christians so he could kill everyone of them at the time. Paul had gone up to Rome and had a house and was just casting devils out left and right, and Nero was mad! And when he did he used to ride out to where all these Christians were being killed and they would have -- after the event was over with he was so stirred that he would jump in his chariot with dramatic flair and they would say Caesar comes! If they didn't get out of the way he'd grind his own people up right in the wheels and just scatter bodies left and right! On to the palace, and he was gone!
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Blood-thirsty age, and you say men couldn't do that? They did it! Nero, I believe, committed suicide in his early 30's -- gone from the scene. He died a horrible death like Judas Iscariot. Now history books are full of it -- and if they had men in those days and persecution, you're going to see men like Nero and Adolf Hitler and men of history. You're going to see them rising and when they do, they will make plans for the dragon, the beast and the false prophet and the people of the earth will do what they say or else! Because you see, they wouldn't listen to the Word of God.
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All through those church ages the Spirit and the cloud we saw tonight were crying "Come to Me". Each church age He took a little group aside. Right now at the end of this He's going to gather a group, -- those spiritual ages had an application right down until today although they were literal at the time of the Apostles. But then God used it in the Book of Revelation when He came to them and He told them what the seven stars in their hands and the candlesticks were.
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Pg 21
He's going to pour His glory out literally on the Elect Saints who are upon the earth! So prepare for it -- God is Wonderful! (Read the church age promises on first part of Scroll #50.)
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The church age is ending we're gathering together for the last time -- you can just feel it in the audience the faith of God is just out there. People you can receive your healings -- the cloud of the Lord and the pillar of fire and God's Spirit is right here in this audience and His secrets are right upon you.
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I'm going to pray a prayer for God to stand with you tonight! Jesus, begin to sweep this place. Jesus, let the power fall. I command the tumors, the cancers, the ulcers, Lord -- heal the arthritis. Lift your hands up -- the Lors is over the top of you, the power of the Lord's over here.
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In the Name of Jesus, hold every one of them and touch their bodies, Jesus. Raise them up -- make them strong in Jesus holy name!
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