“The 7 Churches and Beyond: Thyatira”
Sunday, March 23, 2025
A Clearer Understanding of the Purpose of These Letters…
- Jesus, the bridegroom, is currently not with the church/His bride.
- He’s preparing for us a home, while we are preparing ourselves for Him.
- “Parables of Jesus” – 10 Virgins, Matthew 25
So, the letters of Revelation, are love letters. Love letters from a groom to his bride… from Jesus to us… reminding us that while He is preparing our forever home… we are to be preparing ourselves for our forever Lord.
Revelation 2:18-23 (NIV)
“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:
These are the word 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.”
The Compromising Church of Pergamum vs. The Tolerating Church of Thyatira
The Woman “Jezebel”
- Most likely NOT her name… but the “spirit” she was operating in.
- Who was Jezebel of the O.T.?
[King] Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal.
- What is a “Jezebel spirit”?
How Do We Keep from Becoming a Tolerating Church?
Revelation 2:24-29 (NIV)
“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.”
How Will the Lord Deal with the Tolerant Church?