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Part Four: The Letter to the church of Thyatira
March 23, 2025
- This letter is from Jesus Christ himself.
These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
(Revelation 2:18, New International Version)
…And he was transfigured before them; and his face did shineas the sun, and his garments became white as the light.
(Matthew 17:2, American Standard Version)
- We are reading the words of The Son of God.
- The believers in Thyatira were pressured to choose between their job and their faith.
I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first. (Revelation 2:19, NIV)
Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. 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. (Revelation 2:20-21, NIV)
- Jesus is telling many in the Thyatira church that they must choose between the world and Him.
So I will cast her [Jezebel] 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. (Revelation 2:22–23, NIV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(1 John 1:9, NIV)
Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds and will repay each of you according to your deeds” (Revelation 2:23, 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, except to hold on to what you have until I come.
(Revelation 2:24-25, NIV)
- Christ’s forgiveness is for everyone who repents and believes.
To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give that one the morning star. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
(Revelation 2:26-29, NIV)