And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: This is what He who has the Seven Spirits of Elohiym and the seven stars, says: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of My Elohiym. So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ Revelation 3:1-6
General Antigonus is like the Church of Sardis. His appearance is one way and secretly he is another . This Macedonian Greek general was the successor of Alexander the Great. He became king in 306 BCE. As an exceptional strategist and combat leader, his hands had the blood of his King's sister on them. People give him honor but yet he is dishonorable. General Antigonus is a type of Antichrist.
When the Bible says the Seven Spirits of Elohiym, this is a reference to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a witness to everything that happens on Earth. If you trip and say colorful metaphors, the Holy Spirit knows. However Yahusha Hamashia can take away the punishment if we choose to believe Him, His death, His resurrection and Him being a dimension of Yahuah Elohiym.
The seven stars are seven Angels that oversee the Seven Churches. Angels are messengers that report back to Yahuah Elohiym. The angels and the Holy Spirit makes two witnesses to what happened. Yahuah Elohiym has all the evidence He needs to send people to Hell or pardon them under the testament of Yahusha Hamashia. In other words, what happens to Sardis as for punishment, there is no debating.
"I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead."
We can find the image of the church of Sardis everywhere we look if we look hard enough. In 1232 CE, Northern Italy and Southern France became the target of Pope Gregory IX. He started the Inquisition that became notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the Inquisition was reestablish for the purpose of combatting Protestantism. At that time, already the Church had split between Greek Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church. Then there was the struggle of how Bishops was appointed and where the wealth would go after a death.
Sardis is looking alive but dead. Sardis is called to wake up and strengthen the things that remain. That's worded like once a church is dead after it was alive, it can't be revived unless it is only unconscious. Pope Gregory IX had no separation of Church and State. Yahusha clearl6di believe in separation of Church and State by what He said about giving to Caesar what is Caesar and to Elohiym what belongs to Elohiym. How can you love your neighbor when you hold them accountable for things of State?
Caesar claimed that he descended from Venus and Aeneas. This placed him in a position that the Pope holds today, standing in the place of Yahusha Hamashia, the Son of Elohym. A General of Alexander the Great claimed to be the son of Zeus, later to manipulate his way to be King. His would be Evil incarcerated. His name, Antiochus Epiphanies. Zeus is the Greek Baal.
It is possible to live under a Sardis government and not be defiled. This is to say there should not be a reversed Inquisition on the Catholic faith. Inquisitions destroy faith in Church and State. Look at the political mess in the USA. The Liberal agenda is an Inquisition against Trump and conservatives. Inquisitions work like pealing paper off a sticky strip. You find one weakness and you work at it until you get a firm grip. Then the entire sticky strip is revealed. Liberals and conservatives question the sanity of the other. An Inquisition is not quantum mechanics where opposing things are both correct. Inquisitions is hatred in the name of politically correct.
For example, if you are going to live inside an enclosed city, covered in glass, electric cars and trucks is the only way to go. If you live in a land where the weather is extremely cold and cities are far and few towns in-between, electric is stupid. Then there is the thing of homelessness in the cities. If you cannot afford a house or apartment, how can you buy a car? The point being is that Sardis type government doesn't have their act together. Then you are silenced if you point something out. Sardis type government doesn't want to know of the lack of, or the corruption of wisdom and understanding.
