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•Relatively unimportant city; no military significance

•Center of industry and trade guild activity

•Relatively unimportant city; no military significance

•Center of industry and trade guild activity

Lydia, Acts 16:14

Revelation 2:18-29

• Piercing eyes

• Punishing feet

• He sees the truth and will punish the “adulterers”

• “I know…”

From the Risen Christ

A Hardworking Church

•Love and faith

•Service and perseverance

•Doing more than at first

That Woman Jezebel

•Reference to Old Testament queen who led the nation to idolatry

•Similar to the sins of the Nicolaitans

‣ Sexual immorality

‣ Food sacrificed to idols

Promised Punishment•Jesus threatens physical

punishment for the wrongdoers

•Will punish this “prophetess” and all who follow her teachings

•Wants the churches to realize that Christ knows and Christ repays

Satan’s Secrets•There were some in the early

church who taught that Christians needed to explore evil

•They taught that you couldn’t fully know God without knowing the “deep things of Satan”

•This led them to lawless living

He Who Conquers

•He who conquers will receive authority over the nations

•He will receive the morning star

‣ 2 Peter 1:19

‣ Revelation 22:16

There can be no There can be no compromise between compromise between the church and the the church and the worldworld

We must We must fleeflee all all forms of immoralityforms of immorality

There can be no There can be no compromise between compromise between the church and the the church and the worldworld

We must We must fleeflee all all forms of immoralityforms of immorality