Revelation 2:1-7
This is the Letter to the Church at Ephesus quite distinct from the Letter to the Ephesians.
Ephesus was a very cosmopolitan city and that invariably brings differing needs, traditions and cultures. The community had been good at maintaining the gospel, but it would appear, at the expense of love. They had forgotten their primary call to be a community of love. Yes, they had thwarted the inroads of the heretics (in the case of the Nicolaitans who behaved immorally and would eat meat offered to pagan gods) but somewhere they had forgotten their primary mission.
They are promised a future in God’s wonderful new creation (Paradise) a reminder of the original creation (Genesis).
This is the Letter to the Church at Ephesus quite distinct from the Letter to the Ephesians.
Ephesus was a very cosmopolitan city and that invariably brings differing needs, traditions and cultures. The community had been good at maintaining the gospel, but it would appear, at the expense of love. They had forgotten their primary call to be a community of love. Yes, they had thwarted the inroads of the heretics (in the case of the Nicolaitans who behaved immorally and would eat meat offered to pagan gods) but somewhere they had forgotten their primary mission.
They are promised a future in God’s wonderful new creation (Paradise) a reminder of the original creation (Genesis).