The Letters to the Seven Churches (Part 6) Revelation 2-3

The letter to Thyatira, 2:18-29

The first church to…

 Produce apostasy and error

 Have mention of remnant

 Have no hope of corporate recovery

Apostolic age

 Missionary expansion

 Writing of the NT

 Inception of full-scale persecution

Time line of apostolic age

 Pentecost

 Paul

 Jerusalem counsel

 First civil persecution (Nero)

 The death of John

Causes of persecution

 The churches’ dedication to grace and opposition to legalism

 The churches’ dedication to evangelism

 The churches’ dedication to the lordship of Christ

 The churches’ clash with the influential of society

 The churches’ rejection of the idols of Rome