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CHAPTER 2:18-23
“ And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write,
‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyesSunday
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like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: 19 “I
know your works, love, service,
faith, and your patience;
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and as for your works, the
last are more than the first.
20 Nevertheless I have a few thingsSunday
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against you, because you allow
that woman Jezebel,
who calls herself a prophetess, to
teach and seduce Sunday
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My servants to commit sexual immorality and
eat things sacrificed to
idols. 21 And I gave her time to repent
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of her sexual immorality, and
she did not repent. 22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and thoseSunday
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who commit adultery with her
into great tribulation, unless
they repent of their deeds. Sunday
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23 I will kill her children with
death, and all the churches shall
know that I am He who searches theSunday
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minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you
according to your works.”
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What is happening?Jesus Christ is
addressing his church directly.
The church is being disciplined and encouraged.
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What is happening?Jesus Christ is
calling out specific violations of his commands.
The church is challenged to repent.
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What is happening?We learn what Jesus
Christ HATES.We learn what Jesus
Christ loves.We learn that Jesus
Christ is in our midst.
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What we learn:Jesus Christ is the exclusive authority of the Church!
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Churches of Revelation
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EPHESUS:HOME TO ONE OF THE 7TH
WONDERS OF THE WORLD - TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS.
CULT OF ARTEMIS, GODDESS OF HUNT AND FERTILITY – PROSPERITY AND MONEY.
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Church at ephesus:Confronting things that are
evil is good.Confronting bad leadership
carefully in Christ is good. Working hard for the gospel
of Jesus Christ is good!
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the problems Left your first “love” “agape” – brotherly love,
affection and goodwill toward others. Benevolence, generosity in fellowship.
A lost love for the gospel!
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What Jesus saidJesus Christ
disciplines the CHURCH for becoming more of a BUSINESS institution than a family – REPENT!!!
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What Jesus saidJesus Christ HATES
the flaunting of Christian liberties for the sake of personal pleasure, often offending the weaker.
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SMYRNALARGE PORT CITY – KNOWN
FOR ITS ARCHITECTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND BEAUTY.
COINS from Smyrna read “Smyrna, 1st in asia…for its beauty and splendor”.
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SMYRNAWhen viewed from a
distance, writers of antiquity tell us that it looked like “A CROWN SITTING ON THE SUMMIT OF A HILL” (Aelius Aristides,
writings of Orations)
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SMYRNAHISTORY reports that there
was a great and grievous slaughter of Christians here when the local jewish elite convinced the city officials to kill them.
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SMYRNAHISTORY also reports that the
early church father Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (AD 69-156) was killed here for faith in jesus, by fire and sword.
(Martyrdom of Polycarp 3:1-3)
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What Jesus saidTRIBULATION,
POVERTY, AND PERSONAL SLANDER OF CHARACTER WILL HAPPEN TO A PORTION OF THE CHURCH.
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What Jesus saidFOR THE PERSECUTED
CHURCH - IN TRIALS THERE WILL BE PEACE AND COMFORT; IN POVERTY THERE WILL BE RICHES; SLANDER WILL YIELD HONOUR.
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What Jesus saidTHE PERSECUTED
CHURCH – IS A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF TRUTH IN THE MIDST OF PRESENT DAY LACK OF CONVICTION.
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PERGAMUM1000 FT above the Caicus
River valley.Known for its libraries and
love of knowledge.Many shrines to Zeus,
Athena, Asclepius, Hygeia and Apollo.
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PERGAMUMThe first imperial temple in
asia minor designed to worship a man (Caesar Augustus) as a god.
The imperial cult was the strongest in Pergamum.
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PERGAMUMEvery 5 years the Pergamene
games were held in worship of the imperial family.
One of the few cities in the empire to receive the “RIGHT OF THE SWORD”.
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PERGAMUMHorrible oppression and
economic punishment would come if a citizen did not participate in worshiping the imperial family.
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the PROBLEMS“Nicolaitans” – A sect
who upheld their Christian liberty to the point of allowing the practice of idolatry and sexual immorality in the Church.
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What Jesus saysYour steadfast
conviction in the presence of satan’s power and rebellion pleases me.
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What Jesus saysYour idolatry offends
me!Your loose morals offend
me!Repent and be acquitted
of your guilt.
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ThyatiraThe name means perpetual
sacrifice or continual offering.A city with a large military to
protect the super trade guilds that exist in metallurgy, dye and wool.
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ThyatiraThe land is surrounded by
hills, and this city was known for its abundant crops.
The Church was small but powerful in many ways.
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ThyatiraThe WORSHIP of the god of
nature “BAAL” flourished here.Baal – the god of prosperity. If
one wanted to succeed, he or she had to worship the gods of the guilds and city.
CHAPTER 2:17-23
“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write,
‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like
a flame of fire,Sunday
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and His feet like fine brass: (khal-kol-ib-an-on – unique metal smelted in such a way as to create a
unique metal more valuable than gold ) 19 “I
know your works, love, service,
faith, and your patience;
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and as for your works, the
last are more than the first.
20 Nevertheless I have a few thingsSunday
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against you, because you allow
that woman Jezebel,
who calls herself a prophetess, to
teach and
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CHAPTER 2:17-23 seduce My servants to
commit sexual immorality and
eat things sacrificed to
idols. 21 And I gave her time to repent
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of her sexual immorality, and
she did not repent. 22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and thoseSunday
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who commit adultery with her
into great tribulation, unless
they repent of their deeds. Sunday
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23 I will kill her children with
death, and all the churches shall
know that I am He who searches theSunday
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minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you
according to your works.”
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the words“jezebel” – a woman,
literally or figuratively, who calls herself a prophetess, meaning, who speaks for god, Who causes people to practice sexual immorality and idol worship.
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the HISTORYWho is “jezebel”? name means “there is no man
(prince)”.a tyrant who was from Tyre,
and married the king of Israel, Ahab (1 Kings 16-18).
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the HISTORYWho is “jezebel”?Built an entire religious
system to replace god with baal.
She actively controlled the men around her to serve her own lusts and desires.
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the HISTORYWho is “jezebel”?She killed and persecuted
God’s prophets.She dominated and controlled
King Ahab and mocked God’s men.
Elijah was actually afraid of her (1 Kings 19:3).
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the HISTORYWho is jezebel’s god?Baal, Phoenician god of the
Canaanites. a god of fertility-nature.
Discoveries at Ras Shamra (Ancient
city of Ugarit) explains worship practices.
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the HISTORYWho is jezebel’s god?Baal was worshiped with sexual
orgy (Num. 22:1, Jud. 2:13, 1 Kings 16:1-32) and enticed many to fall into this trap, consistently violating marriage and family.
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the HISTORYWho is jezebel’s god?The cities of 1st century Israel
that were titled Baal (land name) were replaced by the Jewish leaders with the name “Bosheth” meaning shame.
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the HISTORYWho is jezebel’s god?“Baal-Zebub”: identified this
demon as one of the chief demons of satan’s swarm.
Baal was considered to have control over nature, rain, storms.
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the HISTORYWho is jezebel’s god?Archaeologists have uncovered
an ancient image of Baal holding a club in his right hand and a lightning bolt with a spearhead in his left – “rider of the clouds”.
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the HISTORYCHRIST reclaims his title:In Psalm 68, God reminds his
people that only he holds that title.
“Sing to God, sing praises to His name;Extol Him who rides on the clouds, by His name YAH, and rejoice before Him.”
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the HISTORYWho is “jezebel”?Jezebel was a woman in the
Church at Thyatira who called herself a prophetess of god, but really was a prophetess of the chief demon baal.
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the HISTORYWho is “jezebel”?Jezebel was a woman seducing
God’s Church with so-called prophetic words and sexual temptation; Switching out truth for “signs and wonders”.
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the HISTORYWho is “jezebel”?The real husband of Jezebel -
the demon BAAL. This relationship is not unlike
that of genesis chapter 6 - angels lost their place in heaven.
CHAPTER 2:20
“… because you allow (forgive that which should
not be forgiven) that woman Jezebel,
who calls herself a prophetess, to
teach and
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seduce My servants to
commit sexual immorality and
eat things sacrificed to
idols.”
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the HISTORYFOOD SACRIFICED TO IDOLS:Food was prepared for the gods,
offered to them then sold or given to the followers of that god. It was a sign of submission to that god, like dogs at the table.
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What does it mean? Jesus Christ will
not tolerate controlling spirits in his church!
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Controlling spirits?Legalism
Spiritual pietySpiritual “giftings”Offices of
leadershipMusic ministriesMoney, offerings
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Controlling spirits?Control counselling
Spiritual deliveranceAcademic
achievement Selfish Bible
InterpretationProfessional victims
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Controlling spirits?Because so much of
our world is out of control, we often feel like we need to gain control in order to have peace.
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Controlling spirits?Controlling spirits of
any kind have NO PLACE in the Church body. Jesus Christ is the only LORD here.
CHAPTER 2:24-29
“Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many
as do not have this doctrine, who have not known
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depths of Satan, as they say, I
will put on you no other
burden. 25 But hold fast what you
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26 And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give
power over the nations—
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27 ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ as I alsoSunday
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have received from My
Father; 28 and I will give him the morning star.
29 He who has an ear, let him hear
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what the Spirit says to the churches.”’
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the wordsTHE “MORNING STAR”:Revelation 22:16“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
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the wordsTHE “MORNING STAR”:The “morning star” in this
context seems to refer to the CATCHING UP of the saints, Along with the judgment of the nations (Rev. 19).
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What does it mean?Obedience matters!
God has set forth the difference between sin and righteousness in his church.
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SIN1 CORINTHIANS 7:9-11Do you not know that the
unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers,
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nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
kingdom of God.
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SIN1 CORINTHIANS 7:9-11
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were
sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by
the Spirit of our God.
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What does it mean?“JEZEBEL” means
“there is no man”.
We must not tolerate “no Men” in the church!
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Men, rise up!Spiritual leadershipMoral leadershipHusbands who live to please
Jesus Christ not their own selfFathers who lead their children
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ORPHANS!
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