Abstract
The Contemporary Relevance of Jesus's Messages to the Churches in Asia
Highlights
This article will examine how loving Jesus and making him the primary object of one’s love ought to be the believer’s priority
This paper highlights the importance and challenges of fulfilling one of the central themes of Revelation, being and remaining faithful witness to the end through prioritising love for Jesus and others. It examines the contemporary relevance of the letters to the churches in Ephesus and Smyrna, what Jesus meant by first love, and the discrepancy between Jesus’s emphasis on love and faithfulness versus the present-day’s focus on knowledge, service and prosperity
Jesus said that the Ephesian church had forsaken the love they had at first and he urged the believers in Ephesus to repent to enable them regain paradise and eat of the tree of life, which Adam and Eve were denied because of their sin
Summary
This article will examine how loving Jesus and making him the primary object of one’s love ought to be the believer’s priority. While some question the modern relevance of the book, others neglect Revelation because they find its message and imageries difficult to understand and yet others fear the judgements of God pronounced in it.[3] I argue in this article that Revelation 2-3 is important and relevant for the contemporary church because it emphasises the struggle to love God singleheartedly and to demonstrate that love in selfless obedience to his commandments. These letters are applicable to the modern Western church because it is an extension of the early church to which Revelation was originally given.
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