THE BOOK OF REVELATION
Part 8
The Revelation Of Jesus Christ
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Message
to the Church in Thyatira
The Words of Jesus written to the Church of Thyatira
"To the angel of the church in
Thyatira write:
These are the Words of The Son Of God, whose
eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. I know
your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you
are now doing more than you did at first.
Nevertheless, I have this against you: You
tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching
she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food
sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she
is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those
who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I
will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am He Who
searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your
deeds. Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her
teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose
any other burden on you): Only hold on to what you have until I come.
To him who overcomes and does My Will to
the end, I will give authority over the nations—
'He will rule them with an iron scepter;
He will dash them to pieces like pottery'-
just as I have received Authority from My
Father. I will also give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear
what The Spirit says to the churches.
Rev
2:18-29 NIV
The eternal and only-begotten Son Of God, Who has eyes
like a flame of fire, and feet like as fine brass, has the same nature with The
Father.
The description we have here of Him is in two
characters:—
(1.) That His eyes are like a flame of fire,
signifying His piercing, penetrating, perfect Knowledge, a thorough Insight into
all persons and all things, One Who searches the hearts and tries the reins of
the children of men (v. 23), and will make all the churches to know He does so.
(2.) That His feet are like fine brass; the outgoings
of His providence are steady, awful, and all pure and Holy. As He judges with perfect
Wisdom, so He acts with perfect Strength and Steadfastness.
Christ mentioned the charity of the church of
Thyatira [they had character to do good to all men, as they likewise blessed
the household of faith. He also talked of their service [ministration], their
faith, perseverance, and their growing fruitfulness [their last works were
better than the first]. This is an excellent character; when others had left
their ‘first love.’
Jezebel persecutes the prophets; she is a patroness
of idolaters and false prophets. She seduces the servants of God into
fornication, and adultery, and to offer sacrifices to idols. She and her
seducers called themselves prophets, and so claimed a superior authority and
regard to the ministers of the church.
Church in Thyatira—“church of paid indulgences.”
Luxurious, extravagant and idolatrous.
Planted in the "Dark Ages."