Traveling 50 miles north up the coastal road from Smyrna and then 15 miles inland through the Caicus River valleym we come to Pergamum, now called Bergama. The city was renowned for its temple of Zeus or Jupiter. In the 1800's, archaeologists transported the altar of that temple to Germany, where it nay still be viewed, along with many statues and reliefs of pagan gods, at the Pergamon Museum in East Berlin. What message would the Lord Jesus send to the congregation living amid all t hat idolatry?
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