Pergamon

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the work of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate, Some doubt exists as to the peculiar views of the Nicolaitans.

Some light may be thrown upon the subject by reference to the letter to Pergamum.

I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

So hast thou also some that hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans in like manner.

My personal conviction is that the Nicolaitans were persons who excused certain forms of impurity and made the grace of God a cloak for lasciviousness.

I believe the heresy was that known in latter days as antinominalism, which declares that grace is sufficient for salvation and that life is of little moment.

This heresy will be dealt with more fully in considering the letter to Pergamum.

so wonderful a commendation seems to leave nothing to be desired no eye but the penetrating eye of fire which is the eye of love would ever have detected the failure of the church at ephesus at this point subsequently that failure would have been detected even by the outsider the living lord was conscious of the incipient disease which others could only know as it manifested itself in the externalities Light focused in a camera has revealed the presence of disease in the face of a child long before any symptoms appeared which a physician could have detected.

And I ended up in Berlin, Germany for about a year.

And I recently read a book called The Altar of Pergamon about the altar of Satan that was in Pergamon, Turkey, in Asia Minor, that was transported to Berlin piece by piece about 130 years ago and set up in Berlin as a museum piece, part of a museum on Pergamon.

Museum Island, which is a large island.

All right.

So what would your question be? What you thought about that?

What I think about what? The book? I've never read it.

Yeah, the book and the author of Pergamon Bean in Berlin for 130 years.

Well, the altar of Satan from Pergamon, what do I think about it? I'm against paganism.

Whoa.

What the? Then something happens that turns everything upside down, and it's all joined to the altar of Pergamon, the throne of Satan.

Both Hitler and Stalin were born with the altar, came into the world with the altar coming into the world.

The reason why this book is so important is because it's showing the schemes of the enemy.

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is nice.

The altar of Pergamon.

Candles.

And I ended up in Berlin, Germany for about a year.

And I recently read a book called The Altar of Pergamon about the altar of Satan that was in Pergamon, Turkey, in Asia Minor that was transported to Berlin piece by piece about 130 years ago.

and set up in Berlin as a museum piece part of a museum on Museum Island, which is a large island.

All right.

So what would your question be what you thought about that?

What I think about what the book? I've never read it.

Yeah, the book and the author of Pergamon being in Berlin for 130 years.

Well, the altar of Satan from Pergamon, what do I think about it? I'm against paganism.

I was in the spirit of the Lord's day and heard behind me a great voice and trumpet.

saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, and what you see, write in a book and send it to the seven congregations which are in Asia, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

yeah so and sorry and then continuing this is like and i he turned and sees the voice of the who's speaking to him he sees the seven candlesticks and what does it say and one like the son of man clothed and like you know and it goes into this description so notice where where was he he was on patmas right uh verse nine says that he's like uh i was in the aisles of called Patmos, right? And so he hears this voice and notice what did the voice sound like in verse 10? A

trumpet, right?

was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.

I was in the spirit on the Lord's day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.

I turned to see whose voice was speaking to me, and when I did so, I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands was one like a son of man.

He was dressed in a robe extending down to his feet, and he wore a wide golden belt around his chest.