The Golden Candlestick

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Thank you Father, Amen! Thank you for this day; thank you for this program that you have given me, Father. We praise you. Father, I pray in Jesus’ name that you would bless this program. I commit it to you. Bless people to hear and to understand in our hearts what you are saying, Father. It’s so important. Help people to take it seriously. Thank you Lord. 

Today’s program is called, The Golden Candlestick.  Let’s turn to Rev 1:17, And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hell and of Death. Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks which you saw are the seven churches. Chapter 2, verse 1, To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; 

and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your candlestick from its place, unless you repent. But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. 

Let’s turn to Mat 24:3, Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age? And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.  1 John 4:7, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. 

In John chapter 3, Jesus said to Nicodemus, For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus said, Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends. When the Gospel was first preached to us; when we first realized the love that God has for us: when He gave His Son to suffer so greatly and die upon the Cross for our sins; when we realized the love that Jesus has for us: that He went to the Cross; suffered so much and died for us when we were dead in our sins; when we first came to Him and gave ourselves to Him, and received Him into our hearts,  we loved Him.  We loved His Words, and we sought to follow Him and keep His ways, and to love one another. We worshiped Him in Spirit and in truth.  Where are we now?  Do we still have that same love for Him? For the most part, in the Church today, because iniquity and evil is abounding so much, every day, in every part of the world, our love has grown cold. We see and hear so much evil every day, and we talk about all the evil things, and think about them, and we don’t spend enough time in the precious Word of God; in the Words of Jesus, doing them; thinking on them; speaking of them, one to another, when we sit down; when we rise up, and when we go in the way. When we, as a church, leave our first love, if we do not repent and turn back to Jesus, He removes our candlestick. The light is taken out of our fellowship, and we begin to walk in more and more darkness; more and more worldliness and sin, until we are not a true church anymore. The seven golden candlesticks are the seven churches. When Jesus removes the candlestick, it is no longer a church; just a religious gathering. How many dead religious gatherings do we have in the Earth? We are no longer a habitation of God; a holy temple in the Lord. This is happening today to many churches. It is called the great falling away.

Let’s turn to 2 Th 2:1, Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 

Things are so bad now in many, many churches, that if we do not repent, with all our hearts, and begin to cry out to God for deliverance and cleansing, and return to Him; to our first love, there is a great danger that many will be swept away when the man of sin is revealed and begins to operate in this world. He is going to be operating in all the power of Satan; in great deception and power. As we just read, if we don’t receive the love of the truth; if we don’t return to our first love for Jesus and for His Word, God Himself is going to send us strong delusion, that we might believe the lie: that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. We must repent now!, and return to our first love. The time is now! Don’t believe the lie that Jesus is coming for His Church before this happens. Read the Words of Jesus in Mat 24  and believe them: Mat 24:15, Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened. 

Can you see: the elect are in the great tribulation? Read Daniel, chapters 9-12, and believe it. Repent for believing wicked lies, and believe the truth; love the truth. Turn back to your first love! Fall on your face and repent of the hardness of your heart, and cry out to God to pour out His love in your heart by His Spirit, Amen! Believe what is written in the Word of God over what any preacher has ever spoken! His Word, God’s Word, is the truth! And the truth will set you free!, if you will continue with Jesus and with the Holy Spirit teaching you and leading you in doing it.  Will you repent? Or will you continue to harden your heart?  Remember, Jesus said, Unless we humble ourselves and become as little children, we will in no way enter the Kingdom of Heaven. He that shall endure in love unto the end, the same shall be saved. 

Hos 10:12, Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, until He comes and rains righteousness on you. You have plowed wickedness; You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your own way; in the multitude of your mighty men. This is the church today. We trust in our own way; we trust in our mighty men: our strong preachers. We must overcome to return to our first love; to do the first works. We have trusted in our own way and in strong men, and we have forsaken our first love: our love for Jesus, and for the Father. 

Father, I pray, in Jesus’ name, that you would break hearts; that you would open hearts; that you would remind us; that you would help us to remember our first love, that we would humble ourselves and repent and return unto you Lord with all our hearts. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen. 

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I am God Almighty. My children, hearken to My servant Rob this day, for I have sent him to you with My Words in his mouth: I love you! I love you! I proved My love for you when I gave My Son Jesus to suffer so greatly and die a brutal death upon the Cross. I gave Him for you; for your sins, so that you could fellowship with Me forever in My Kingdom; so that you could be made clean, holy, and righteous before Me, through faith in His sacrifice; in His shed Blood. Return to Me! Return to your first love! Return to Me with all your heart, and I will receive you, says the Lord.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.