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Revelation 2:5

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So remember where you were before you fell. Change your hearts and do what you did at first. If you don’t change, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

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“I correct and punish the people I love. So show that nothing is more important to you than living right. Change your hearts and lives.

So change your hearts! If you don’t change, I will come to you quickly and fight against these people with the sword that comes out of my mouth.

Israel, you fell and sinned against God. So come back to the Lord your God.

“I know what you do. I know about your love, your faith, your service, and your patience. I know that you are doing more now than you did at first.

Here is the hidden meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands that you saw: The seven lampstands are the seven churches. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches.

In that country you will remember all the evil things you did that made you filthy, and you will be ashamed.

John himself will go ahead of the Lord and make people ready for his coming. He will be powerful like Elijah and will have the same spirit. He will make peace between fathers and their children. He will cause people who are not obeying God to change and start thinking the way they should.”

Elijah will help the parents become close to their children, and he will help the children become close to their parents. This must happen, or I will come and completely destroy your country.”

I will bring back the kind of judges you had in the beginning. Your counselors will be like those you had long ago. Then you will be called ‘The Good and Faithful City.’”

He will come and kill those farmers. Then he will lease the land to some other farmers.” When the people heard this story, they said, “This should never happen!”

“So what will the man who owns the vineyard do? He will go and kill those farmers. Then he will lease the land to others.

You will remember the bad things you did. You will remember that those things were not good. Then you will hate yourselves because of your sins and the terrible things you did.”

“I know what you do, how hard you work and never give up. I know that you don’t accept evil people. You have tested those who say they are apostles but are not. You found that they are liars.

If you try to be made right with God through the law, your life with Christ is finished—you have left God’s grace.

Then the Lord will accept the gifts from Judah and Jerusalem. It will be as it was in the past—as the time long ago.

You were like the morning star, but you have fallen from the sky. In the past, all the nations on earth bowed down before you, but now you have been cut down.

God is strong and can keep you from falling. He can bring you before his glory without any wrong in you and give you great joy.

Remember the days when you first learned the truth. You had a hard struggle with much suffering, but you continued strong.

“At the time I, the Lord, found Israel, they were like fresh grapes in the desert. They were like the first figs on a fig tree at the beginning of the season. But when they came to Baal Peor, they changed. So I had to cut them off like rotten fruit. They became like the terrible things that they loved.

The people were burned by the great heat. They cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues. But they refused to change their hearts and lives and give glory to God.

“You are the light that shines for the world to see. You are like a city built on a hill that cannot be hidden.

People don’t hide a lamp under a bowl. They put it on a lampstand. Then the light shines for everyone in the house.

so that you will be blameless and pure, children of God without any fault. But you are living with evil people all around you, who have lost their sense of what is right. Among those people you shine like lights in a dark world,

Dear friends, you already know about this. So be careful. Don’t let these evil people lead you away by the wrong they do. Be careful that you do not fall from your strong faith.




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