REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Ten -Abhorring the "Deep Things of Satan"

 About 40 miles southeast of Bergama (Pergamum) is the thriving Turkish town of Akhisar. Some 1,900 years ago, this town was the site of Thyatira. A traveling overseer could readily reach Thyatira by an inland road from Pergamum and then move  in a circuit to the remaining congregations of Revelation chapter 3-Sardis, Philadelphia,  and Laodicea.  Unlike Pergamum, Thyatira does not seem to have been an important center of emperor worship, but it did have shrines and temples dedicated to pagan gods. Thyatira was noteworthy as a commercial trading center.

When Paul was preaching to Macedonia, he met up with a Thyatiran woman named Lydia,  a seller of purple. Lydia and all her household gladly accepted the message Paul was preaching and showed extraordinary hospitality.  (Acts 16:14, 15) She became the first Thyatiran on record to accept  Christianity. In due course of time, the city itself came to have a congregation of Christians.  Jesus directs his longest message there: "And to  the angel of the congregation in Thyatira write: These are the things that the Son of God says. he who has his eyes like a fiery flame, and his fee are like fine copper." - REVELATION 2:18.

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