The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins and the Almighty God resurrected him three days and nights after his death. He gave his life for us and, when he returns to claim His Church into the Kingdom of God, he is coming to claim those for whom he died, "his bride", as a holy people without fault. In other words, he is returning for a people who are “without a spot, wrinkle or blemish” - holy, without fault. This means that Jesus Christ is not returning for pastors and church attendees who live immoral lives while self-righteously proclaiming Him as their Lord and Savior.

In the last book of the Bible, The Revelation, Jesus Christ reveals future events to his apostle John. His revelation includes an assessment of “his people”, “his church”. In his revelation he uses seven regional churches to symbolize the complete church and to make his assessment of the state of the people for whom he died. Are they blameless? Holy and without fault? And for those who are not, what would he do?

Of the utmost importance to all of us is that each of us must ask ourselves the following questions: "If Jesus Christ died for my sins and my hope is in his return for entrance into the Kingdom of God, what does it mean to me? To which of the seven groups do I belong? Am I blameless? Holy? Without fault? Without spot or wrinkle or blemish? Am I ready for Jesus Christ?"

We have included a table below which outlines Jesus Christ’s assessment of each of the seven regional churches which picture the spiritual state of the complete church body prior to his return.

This assessment is given for all followers of Jesus Christ to evaluate where they stand in him and the changes that must be made in their lives to ensure entrance into the Kingdom of God. It should be noted that only two of the seven churches were found to be without fault, the materially poor church at Smyrna and the church of brotherly love at Philadelphia.

Let us use the following table as a tool to measure ourselves within the context of Jesus Christ’s assessment of us, but before doing so, consider, as it is written in Revelation 1: 1-6:

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants - things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."