A Study of Revelation · Lesson 08

Pergamos & Thyatira

The message moves from Christ’s warning to Ephesus about losing its lampstand to the deeper dangers facing Pergamos and Thyatira, where false teaching, immorality, and tolerated sin threatened the churches’ witness.

"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. "

— Matthew 5:14-16 (KJV)

• ✓A church can lose its witness if it will not repent.
• ✓Pergamos lived in a spiritually hostile place.
• ✓Christ’s answer to compromise is repentance.
• ✓Tolerance of evil is not a virtue.
• ✓Overcomers are promised sustaining grace and eternal reward.