The letter to Thyatira praises works that are growing,
and judges a teacher the church tolerates.
I know your works,
your love and faith and service and patient endurance,
and that your latter works exceed the first.
But I have this against you,
that you tolerate that woman Jezebel,
who calls herself a prophetess.
The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end,
to him I will give authority over the nations.
Jesus has eyes like a flame of fire and feet like burnished bronze. Thyatira’s later works exceed the first. Love, faith, service, and endurance are real. The wound is tolerance. They tolerate Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. He gave her time to repent. She refuses. He will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent. He searches mind and heart.
This is one of the seven letters. The Spirit says it to the churches. Growing love does not cover a tolerated prophetess. He gave time. The time was refused.
Latter works exceeded the first.
Jezebel was still tolerated.
He gave time to repent.
Hold what you have until He comes.
Full text from Revelation 2, as on the chapter page.
Rev 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
Rev 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
Rev 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Rev 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Rev 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Rev 2:24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
Rev 2:25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Rev 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Rev 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
Rev 2:29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess.
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses.
Hold fast what you have until I come.
To the one who conquers and keeps my works until the end, I will give authority over the nations, and I will give him the morning star.
Growing works do not license a teacher He has judged. He gave time. Hold what is clean until He comes.
Entry compiled for the JESUSaves.com Bible Glossary. Optimized for wiki.js Visual Editor.