Thyatira Revelation 2:18-29

Patmos

Thyatira

Name Originally Called Semiramis

Wife of Nimrod (Babylon)

Mother of Tammuz

Roots of Babylon

Nimrod Began Babylonian Religion

Phaethon or Aescalapius

Wife = Semiramis; Son = Tammuz

Roots of Babylon

Nimrod Began Babylonian Religion

Phaethon or Aescalapius

Wife = Semiramis; Son = Tammuz

Babylon Semiramis & Tammuz

Phoenicia Ashtoreth & Tammus

Egypt Isis & Horus

Greece Aphrodite & Eros

Rome Venus & Cupid

Thyatira

Name Originally Called Semiramis

Wife of Nimrod (Babylon)

Mother of Tammuz

Babylonian Sun God

Died Winter Solstice

Burned “Yule Log”

Replaced with Tree Jer 10:1-5

Mourning Tammuz Ezek 8:14

Thyatira

Name “Daughter” Re-Named by

Seleucus on His Daughter’s Birth

At Junction of Roads to

Pergamus, Smyrna & Sardis

Trade Guilds: Wool, Linen, Clothes

Dyes, Tanners, Potters, Bakers

Slave Traders & Bronze Smiths

Thyatira

Pagan Worship

Your Guild’s Patron god

Goddess Ashtoreth

Also Known As Semiramis

Goddess of Young Maidens &

Childbirth

Queen of Heaven Jer 7:18 & 44:25

Thyatira

Name “Daughter” Named by

Seleucus on His Daughter’s Birth

At Junction of Roads to

Pergamus, Smyrna & Sardis

Trade Guilds: Wool, Linen, Clothes

Dyes, Tanners, Potters, Bakers

Slave Traders & Bronze Smiths

Thyatira

Name “Daughter” Named by

Seleucus on His Daughter’s Birth

At Junction of Roads to

Pergamus, Smyrna & Sardis

Trade Guilds: Wool, Linen, Clothes

Dyes, Tanners, Potters, Bakers

Slave Traders & Bronze Smiths

Lydia, The Seller of Purple

“And on the Sabbath day we …. spoke to the women who met there. Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The

Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.” Acts 16:14-15

Lydia, The Seller of Purple

“And on the Sabbath day we …. spoke to the women who met there. Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The

Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.” Acts 16:14-15

Lydia, The Seller of Purple

“And on the Sabbath day we …. spoke to the women who met there. Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The

Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.” Acts 16:14-15

Thyatira Church Probably Started by Paul, Perhaps Through Lydia

Thyatira

Yeshua’s Title

“These things says the Son of God, who

has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:”

Peter’s Revelation Matt 16:16

Thyatira

Yeshua’s Title

“These things says the Son of God, who

has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:”

“Things you have seen…” Rev 1:15

Thyatira

Yeshua’s Title

“These things says the Son of God, who

has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:”

Fire & Brass Speak of……

Refining & Purity

Progression of Impurity

Thyatira “Know the Deep

Things of Satan”

Smyrna “Synagogue of Satan”

Pergamus “Throne of Satan”

Our Purity ….. Ephesians 5:25-27

Thyatira

Commendation

“I know your works, love, service, faith, and

your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.”

Ephesus: Lost Their First Love

Thyatira: Their Love Now Has

Increased Since the First

Thyatira

Concern“Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.”

Jezebel:

Daughter of Eth-Baal, King of Sidon,

Priest of Astarte Who Murdered

His Predecessor, Pheles

Married King Ahab: Sealed Trade

Alliance: Israel & Phoenicia

Killed the Prophets of hvhyhvhyhvhyhvhyI Kings 18:4

She Was Running Things!!

Jezebel’s Character I Kings 21

1) Ahab Desired Naboth’s Vineyard

2) Jezebel Arranged an Inquisition:

False Witnesses

Condemnation & Judgment

Execution

3) Naboth’s Vineyard Seized

4) Naboth’s Heirs Murdered

Jezebel’s Character I Kings 21

1) Ahab Desired Naboth’s Vineyard

2) Jezebel Arranges an Inquisition:

False Witnesses

Condemnation & Judgment

Execution

3) Naboth’s Vineyard Seized

4) Naboth’s Heirs Murdered

Thyatira

Concern“Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.”

Thyatira

Concern“Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.”

2 Closest to Pergamus

Attacks from Inside

Thyatira

Concern“Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.”

Thyatira

Concern“Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.”

Thyatira

Exhortation

“Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this (Jezebel’s) doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden. But hold fast what you have till I come.”

The “Depths of Satan” Cannot

Compare to the Depths of God!

I Corinthians 2:9-10

ThyatiraPromise to the Overcomer

“And he who overcomes, and keeps My

works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations — ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ — as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star.’”

Satan is “god of the world” II Corinth 4:4

& We Have Power Over Satan!

ThyatiraPromise to the Overcomer

“And he who overcomes, and keeps My

works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations — ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ — as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star.’”

The Justice of God Psalm 2

ThyatiraPromise to the Overcomer

“And he who overcomes, and keeps My

works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations — ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ — as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star.’”

Not What, But Who!! Revelation 22:16

Conditions of Thyatira Church Foreshadow Medieval Church

Roman Church’s Lust for Power &

Wealth Defined the Middle Ages

Thyatira Corruption Foreshadowed

Medieval Roman Church!!

Institutions, Doctrines, Practices &

Symbols of the Roman Church

Originated in Babylon

• Most Powerful of All the Popes

• “Vicar of Christ”, Supreme Sovereign

• European Monarchs Obeyed Him

• Ordered Two Crusades

• Decreed Transubstantiation

• Confirmed Auricular Confession

• Declared Papal Infallibility

• Condemned the Magna Carta

• Forbade Scripture in Common Language

• Launched Inquisitions

Pope Innocent III (1198-1216)

Called “The Holy Office”

• All Required to Inform Against Heretics

• Suspects Tortured Without Knowing Name of His Accuser

• All Proceedings Were Secret

• Inquisitor Pronounced Sentence: Life or Burned at Stake

• Property Confiscated: Divided Between Church & State

Victims: Spain, Italy, Germany & Netherlands

The Inquisition

Albigenses in S. France, N. Spain & N. Italy

• Spoke Against Immoralities of R.C. Priests

• Spoke Against Worship of Saints & Images

• Completely Rejected R.C. Clergy

• Opposed the Claims of R.C. Church

• Read Scripture; Lived Self-Denying Lives

• Had Great Zeal for Moral Purity

By 1167: Majority in S. France & N. Italy

In 1208: Innocent III Utterly Destroyed Them!

1 Pope in 1 Day Murdered More than All Caesars Combined

The Results of the Church

“Mingling” with the “Depths of

Satan” Are Readily Seen in the

History of the Middle Ages

The Results of the Church

“Mingling” with the “Depths of

Satan” Are Readily Seen in the

History of the Middle Ages

• Started When Pergamus Married

the World

The Results of the Church

“Mingling” with the “Depths of

Satan” Are Readily Seen in the

History of the Middle Ages

• Started When Pergamus Married

the World

• Gained Momentum When Thyatira

Learned the “Depths of Satan”

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Prophetic Application of the Thyatira Letter

Apostolic

Church

Ephesus

Persecuted

Church

Smyrna

550’s

Married

Church

Pergamos

Thyatira

Medieval

Church

Thyatira: Personal Application

Reject Pagan Practices!