Teaching Elder Duke Shelley of Black Forest Chapel continues a series on Revelation. Part 11 explores further the letter to the Church at Pergamum.

1. To the Church in Pergamum
Revelation 2:12-17

2. • (12) "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum
write: The One who has the sharp two-edged
sword says this:

5. • Zeus

6. • Zeus
• Athena

7. • Zeus
• Athena
• Dionysus

8. • Zeus
• Athena
• Dionysus
• Esculapius

9. • Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold of the dragon, the
serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and
bound him for a thousand years;

11. • Revelation 19:15a Now out of His mouth goes a
sharp sword, that with it He should strike the
nations.

12. • Revelation 19:15a Now out of His mouth goes a
sharp sword, that with it He should strike the
nations.
• Revelation 19:21 And the rest were killed with the
sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat
on the horse, and all the birds were filled with
their flesh.

13. • (13) 'I know where you dwell, where Satan's
throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not
deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My
witness, My faithful one, who was killed among
you, where Satan dwells.

14. • (14) 'But I have a few things against you, because
you have there some who hold the teaching of
Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a
stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat
things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of
immorality. (15) 'So you also have some who in
the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

15. • 2 Peter 2:15 forsaking the right way, they have
gone astray, having followed the way of
Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;

16. • 2 Peter 2:15 forsaking the right way, they have
gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam,
the son of Beor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;
• Jude 1:11a Woe to them! For they have gone the
way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed
headlong into the error of Balaam

17. • Galatians 5:13 For you were called to
freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom
into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love
serve one another.

18. • James 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that
friendship with the world is hostility toward God?
Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the
world makes himself an enemy of God.

19. • (16) 'Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you
quickly, and I will make war against them with the
sword of My mouth.

20. • (16) 'Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you
quickly, and I will make war against them with the
sword of My mouth.
Metanoeo

21. • (17) 'He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches. To him who
overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden
manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a
new name written on the stone which no one
knows but he who receives it.'

22. • (17) 'He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the churches. To him who
overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden
manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a
new name written on the stone which no one
knows but he who receives it.'
• Hebrews 9:4b and the ark of the covenant covered
on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar
holding the manna, and Aaron's rod which
budded, and the tables of the covenant;

23. • John 6:48-51 "I am the bread of life. (49) "Your
fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they
died. (50) "This is the bread which comes down
out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not
die. (51) "I am the living bread that came down
out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will
live forever; and the bread also which I will give for
the life of the world is My flesh."