To Seven Churches God Can Help Us Overcome Sin and Trouble

A MESSAGE TO SEVEN CHURCHES GOD CAN HELP US OVERCOME SIN AND TROUBLE. MISSING LETTERS

SOME OF THE LETTERS S A ____ D I ____ ARE MISSING FROM THE NAMES OF THE SEVEN L A ____ D I C ______BIBLE PASSAGE: REVELATION 1—3 CHURCHES FROM ____ M Y R ____ A TODAY’S BIBLE STORY. MEMORY VERSE: USE YOUR BIBLE FOR E ____ H E S ____ S REVELATION 1:8 HELP FILLING IN THE T H ____ A T I R ____ MISSING LETTERS. P E R ______M U M ____ H I L ____ D E L ____ H I A

COLUMN FROM LAODICEA THE CHURCH IN THE WEALTHY CITY OF LAODICEA IS TALKED ABOUT IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. THIS COLUMN WAS DISCOVERED IN SOME LAODICEAN RUINS.

LOOK CLOSELY. CAN YOU FIND THE CROSS, MENORAH, AND SHOFAR? THESE CARVINGS SHOW HOW THE CHURCH IN LAODICEA PROBABLY GREW OUT OF THE CITY’S SYNAGOGUE.

“LET EVERYONE WITH EARS LISTEN” In his letters to the churches, John challenged everyone with ears to listen to what God was telling them. So how do ears work, anyway? The cells in the hairs trigger chemicals that Sound travels through the air into the inner ear are sent to the brain as nerve impulses

Tiny hairs in your ear are triggered The brain makes sense of the nerve by the sound waves impulses, translating sound waves into information you can understand

etb_younger_explorer_guide_sum20.indd 26 12/13/19 1:01 PM 127 30 E 28 E 26 E Byzantium CHURCHES OF THE Heraclea (Istanbul) Bosporus THRACE Chalcedon REVELATION REV. 2–3 MAP OF THE MARMARA SEA Nicomedia City TUS Samothrace ND PON 7Cities CHURCHES of the Seven Churches BITHYNIA A Cyzicus Nicaea Major road Dardanelles S Imbros a When John was exiled to the island of n Abydos g a Prusa r GOD CAN HELP US OVERCOME SIN AND TROUBLE. iu Lemnos s R. Patmos, he had a vision. In this vision, 40 N MYSIA

m i Jesus told John to write SEVEN MESSAGES Troas S Dorylaeum TO SEVEN CHURCHES. Jesus had a unique Assos Adramyttium A Cotiaeum E message for each church. He wanted the Lesbos G Mitylene Nacoleia churches to overcome their troubles and Skiros E Pergamum A Ancyra A Thyatira Appia obey His commands. N

Euboea Hermus R . Temenothyrae/ S Flaviopolis E Chios Sebaste This map shows the locations Sardis Philadelphia A Smyrna 38 N Tripolis of each of these churches. LYDIA IA YG HR Ephesus Hierapolis P Apamea See if you can find them all: Andros 38 N Laodicea Tralles Samos Magnesia Mae Tinos Samos Colossae Ephesus, Laodicea, Pergamum, Alabanda Ikaria Trogyllium Aphrodisias PISIDIA Heraclea Philadelphia, Sardis, Smyrna, Delos Miletus

Patmos

R )

Cyclades . .

R R

CARIA and Thyatira. u

n r

a t Paros ) Cibyra s . s

m k

Naxos a R e

l A ( a s C John writes Revelation D u Halicarnassus Idyma nd P Islands encouraging Christians (I AM to remain faithful. PH YL Cos Cos IA Perga Cnidus Santorini LYCIA Rhodes

Xanthus 36 N Rhodes Patara Myra

36 N

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Crete 30 E 28 E 26 E This is a reconstruction of the altar in Pergamum, one of the 7 churches. MY DAY God has always existed, He BEFORE BREAKFAST: exists right now, and He will always exist. That means that AFTER BREAKFAST: God will always be with His followers! Next to each time of day, write something you LUNCH TIME: will do or where you will be at that time. As you write, AFTERNOON: think about John’s message that God is always with His followers and will help them AFTER DINNER: resist sin when they ask Him.

etb_younger_explorer_guide_sum20.indd 27 12/13/19 1:01 PM