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Revelation 2:18-29
Θυάτειρα
Outline:
I.
SALUTATION AND NAME OF CHURCH IDENTIFIED, Verse 18
II.
IDENTIFICATION OF CHRIST AS SENDER, Verse 18
III.
ASSERTION OF KNOWLEDGE, Verse 19
IV.
COMMENT AND CONCERN, Verses 20-23
V.
EXHORTATION, Verses 24-25
VI.
PROMISED BLESSING, Verse 26-28
VII.
ADMONITION TO HEED, Verse 29
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I.
SALUTATION AND NAME OF CHURCH IDENTIFIED, Verse 18
A. “And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write…”
1. Angel is aggelos.
It simply means messenger.
This could be referring to the
pastor of the church or perhaps an actual angel that was assigned to watch over
the church.
Either way the important thing is that this messenger represents the
whole church and therefore this letter was to all the saints within that church and
even to us today.
2. Church is ekklēsia and in a christian sense this word means an assembly of
Christians of any size gathered for worship in a religious meeting.
It is a word to
speak of the called out ones.
And that is exactly what the christian is.
He or she
is a called out one.
Called out from this world and the sinful system that rages
within it and into glorious freedom from sin and a living vital relationship with
Jesus who purchased them with His very life's blood.
a) The worlds view of what church is or means is typically a building where God
dwells and where people can come once a week to get in touch with Him.
But the scripture does not paint a picture of church in that way at all.
The
scripture tells us that God dwells within every believer and that His people
are indeed the very temple of the Holy Spirit.
If anything the scriptures
indicate that it is the people that bring the Lord to the church building and
then in corporate worship He is glorified.
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b) The Scriptures also mention churches that were in homes and not in great
big cathedrals (Romans 16:5).
Not that there is anything wrong with a large
building full of christians where they worship the Lord but there does not
need to be a big building and many people in order for it to be a legitimate
church.
The universal Church of Christ is made up of the body of believers
around the world and the local assemblies we might attend are but smaller
expressions of the larger whole.
SIze has nothing to do with it.
Big or small if
there is a gathering together of “called out ones” to a common location then it
is a church meeting.
This is the meaning of the word ekklēsia
B. Thyatira
1.
This was the smallest and politically the least import of the seven cities that
Jesus addresses.
2. However there was much trade and business that was conducted through this
city.
3.
There were many different trade guilds and
a) these trade guilds were so important that if you possessed a trade you also
had to be a member of the appropriate trade guild.
We would call these
today a union.
b) Each of the trade guilds had their own patron pagan deity.
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4. One valuable very commodity that Thyatira produced was dye for cloth and dyed
cloth.
a) In Acts 16:14-15 we read of a women who lived in Philippi and was
converted under the ministry of Paul who was a seller of purple and she was
from Thyatira.
b) The die was very costly and usually only the rich could afford to wear and
buy this dye or the already dyed cloth.
c) The word 'purple' comes from the Old
English word purpul which originates from
the Latin purpura.
This in turn is derived
from the Koine Greek πορφύρα (porphyra),
name of the dye manufactured in Classical
antiquity from the mucus-secretion of the
hypo-branchial gland of a marine snail
known as the Murex brandaris or the spiny
dye-murex.
d) Perhaps Lydia was a key reason why this church began.
II.
IDENTIFICATION OF CHRIST AS SENDER, Verse 18
A. “…These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire,
and his feet are like fine brass;”
1. “…Son of God,…”
This title emphasizes the Lordʼs deity.
This is the only time in the whole book of
revelation that this phrase occurs.
Jesus picks this title and uses it for himself
when talking to this church to remind those within it who were playing around
with idolatry that He and He alone is the one and only deity that exists and that
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