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Revelation 2:18-29

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18 Write this to Thyatira, to the Angel of the church. God's Son, eyes pouring fire-blaze, standing on feet of furnace-fired bronze, says this:

18 “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

19 "I see everything you're doing for me. Impressive! The love and the faith, the service and persistence. Yes, very impressive! You get better at it every day.

19 I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

20 "But why do you let that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet mislead my dear servants into Cross-denying, self-indulging religion?

20 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.

21 I gave her a chance to change her ways, but she has no intention of giving up a career in the god-business.

21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.

22 I'm about to lay her low, along with her partners, as they play their sex-and-religion games.

22 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.

23 The bastard offspring of their idol-whoring I'll kill. Then every church will know that appearances don't impress me. I x-ray every motive and make sure you get what's coming to you.

23 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.

24 "The rest of you Thyatirans, who have nothing to do with this outrage, who scorn this playing around with the Devil that gets paraded as profundity, be assured I'll not make life any harder for you than it already is.

24 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,

25 Hold on to the truth you have until I get there.

25 except to hold on to what you have until I come.’

26 "Here's the reward I have for every conqueror, everyone who keeps at it, refusing to give up: You'll rule the nations,

26 To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations—

27 your Shepherd-King rule as firm as an iron staff, their resistance fragile as clay pots. This was the gift my Father gave me; I pass it along to you -

27 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.

28 and with it, the Morning Star!

28 I will also give that one the morning star.

29 "Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches."

29 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.