This document summarizes the biblical passage addressing the church in Thyatira. It identifies the Son of God speaking to the church and references their love, faith, service and perseverance. However, it also calls out the church for tolerating the false prophetess Jezebel, who was misleading people into sexual immorality and idolatry. Unless the church repents, those involved will suffer greatly. The message promises authority to those who overcome and remain faithful to Christ.

2. Patmos

3. Thyatira:
• Address - “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:”
•Identification - “These are the words of the Son of God,
whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like
burnished bronze.”
✴ Son Of God - (Ref. 1:16)
✴ Only use of this title in the book of Revelation
✴ There was a special temple the the sun god Appolo.
✴ Eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished
bronze✴ Reference to Daniel 10
✴ Eyes - Judgement
✴ Feet - Strength [Burnished Bronze (Chalkolibanon) -
Copper-Zinc] guilds

4. Thyatira:
• Account: “I know your deeds, your love and faith,
your service and perseverance, and that you are now
doing more than you did at first.”
✴Love and Faith, Service and Perseverance -
Faithful witness
✴Doing more than you did at first - Contrast to
Ephesus - Bucking the trend toward entropy

5. Thyatira:
• Assessment: “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. 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.”

6. Thyatira: • Assessment: “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. 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.” ✴Jezebel
✴ Sibyl Sambathe - a sibylline priestess who had a shrine
and would consult the oracle.
✴ Wife of the preacher or one of the leaders of the church
✴ The personification of a teaching

7. Thyatira: • Assessment: “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. 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.” ✴Teaching - sexual immorality and eating food sacrificed to
Idols
✴ My servants... those who commit adultery with her... her
children... - The same people, those who have been misled
✴ The churches - Well known among the other churches,
further example of these letters instructing all churches

8. Thyatira:
•Exhortation: “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.”
✴ Rest of you- didn’t affect everyone
✴Satan’s so-called deep secrets - Leads us to believe the
teaching may have been encapsulated as special knowledge
(gnostic) and reserved for those who are mature. Perversion of
Paul’s teaching in 1 Cor. 8-10, every person be in subjection to
the governing authorities in Rom. 13:1 Jesus’ teaching in Matt.
22:21; Mark 12:17, Render unto Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s.

9. Thyatira:
•Promise: “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.”
✴ Authority over the nations - Rule with Him - 2 Tim.
2:12, Rev. 20:4
✴ Iron sceptor and will dash them to pieces - Psalm 2
✴ Morning Star- Jesus Himself - Rev. 22:16

10. Thyatira:
•Call: “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit
says to the churches.”

11. Thyatira:
•Thoughts:
✴Our deeds matter - vs. 19, vs. 23
✴Comparison with Ephesus -
✴ First love vs. doing more than you did at first
✴ Judging and discerning vs. love and faith
✴“Unloving orthodoxy and loving compromise are both
hateful to God”
✴ Ephesians 4:15 is the balance - “Instead, speaking the
truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the
mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.”