What does Revelation 2:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"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;"
_The Epistle to the Church at Thyatira._ Verse Revelation 2:18. _THESE THINGS SAITH THE SON OF GOD_] See the notes on Revelation 1:14; Revelation 1:15....
AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH - See the notes on Revelation 1:20. THESE THINGS SAITH THE SON OF GOD - This is the first time, in these epistles, that the name of the speaker is referred to. In each...
II. THE THINGS WHICH ARE, THE SEVEN CHURCH MESSAGES, AND THEIR PROPHETIC MEANING CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Ephesus: The post-apostolic period (Revelation 2:1)_ 2. Smyrna: The period of persecution (Revelati...
REVELATION 2:1 TO REVELATION 3:22. THE LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. These letters are addressed to individual churches, but their messages are intended for the Church as a whole. In every letter the...
_THYATIRA_ IS NAMED FIRST IN ACTS, CHAPTER XVI. IT IS PROBABLE THAT LYDIA AND HER HOUSEHOLD FORMED THE NUCLEUS OF THE CHURCH. THE NAME IS NOT MENTIONED AGAIN UNTIL IT APPEARS IN REVELATION. THE CITY W...
THE LETTER TO EPHESUS (Revelation 2:1-7)...
THYATIRA.. town lying between Pergamos and Sardis. See Acts 16:14. Another centre of Apollo and Artemis worship. SON OF GOD. App-98. FEET... BRASS. Prepared for treading down in judgment. See Revela...
The Church in Thyatira. 18 29 18. _the Son of God_ So designated, perhaps, because it is the power which He received from His Father which is the subject of the concluding promise, Revelation 2:27....
ὩΣ ΦΛΌΓΑ. Tisch[101] read ὡς φλόξ with א; Primas[102] _ut flamma_. [101] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited. [102] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. 18...
_LETTER TO THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA REVELATION 2:18-29:_ Thyatira was the smallest of all the cities to whom letters were written. Jesus said of them, "I know thy works, and charity, and service, and fa...
ΘΥΆΤΕΙΡΑ (G2363) Фиатира. Не столь важный город, основанный Селевком I для защиты от Лисимаха, и расположенный в 56 км вглубь материка к юго-востоку от Пергама. В городе было множество объединений или...
DISCOURSE: 2490 EPISTLE TO THYATIRA Revelation 2:18. _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...
CHURCH IN THYATIRA— Thyatira was situated at a distance of about 48 miles to the south-east of Pergamos. See Acts 16:14. At present the city is called by the Turks Akhisar, or "The white castle," from...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 7 Text Revelation 2:18-29 18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are l...
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; THYATIRA - in Lydia, south of...
__ The Prophetic Section THYATIRA 18 Tertullian and Epiphanius say that there was no ecclesia in Thyatira when John wrote these letters. On this ground many rejected this prophecy in early times. T...
2:18 fine (d-33) Or 'shining.'...
THE EPISTLES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES (REVELATION 2:1 TO REVELATION 3:22) Since 'seven' is the perfect number, the 'seven churches' represent all the Churches of the province of Asia. At the same time, t...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 LETTERS TO THE 7 *CHURCHES - REVELATION 2:1-3 TO THE *CHURCH IN EPHESUS - REVELATION 2:1-7 V1 ‘Write to the *angel of the *churc...
THYATIRA was situated between Pergamos and Sardis, a little off the main road which connected these two cities. It was a Macedonian colony, founded by Alexander the Great after the overthrow of the Pe...
CHAPTER II THE CHURCH ON THE FIELD OF HISTORY. Revelation 2:1; Revelation 3:1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write; These things saith He that holdeth the seven stars in His right hand, He th...
χαλκολιβ. Some local allusion to the bronze-work for which Thyatira was famous. _Son of God_ (_cf._ Kattenbusch ii. 563 f.) is practically an equivalent for messiah (Luke 4:41), or for the superhuman...
“HOLD FAST TILL I COME” Revelation 2:18 Note that Jesus does not hesitate to appropriate the sublime title- _the Son of God_. His eyes penetrate profoundest secrets, and His advent leaves a trail of...
The next movement in the Book consists of the unveiling of the Lord in His relation with the Asian churches, and therefore with His Church. It is impossible in such brief notes as these necessarily ar...
TO THE CORRUPTED CHURCH Forty miles southeast of Pergamum was the city of Thyatira. The city was famous for its purple dye, which Lydia sold (Acts 16:11-15). It was the home of numerous trade guilds,...
And unto (18) 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; (18) The fourth passage is...
To the Angel of the church of Thyatira. Here is first a commendation of their constancy in the faith, in good works, charity, patience, and ministry, which chiefly regards their bishop, whoever he was...
(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; (19) I know thy works, and ch...
That God should have chosen John to be the instrument of communicating the closing volume of the New Testament is worthy of our consideration. It is not a new thing for God thus to set out the stronge...
_THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA_ ‘And unto the angel of the Church in Thyatira write.’ Revelation 2:18 Of the many points in this epistle which we might make the subject-matter of thought, let us take two...
The Church in Thyatira A liar is hard not to believe when he says nice things about you. (So it is when people speak of the Lord, even if it is lies) It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard...
The first great fact is, that the assembly in this world is subject to judgment, and to have its whole existence and place before God as light-bearer in the world set aside; secondly, that God will do...
AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA WRITE,.... Of the city of Thyatira, Revelation 1:11; a church was formed here very likely by the Apostle Paul; Lydia was a native of this place, who, and h...
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; Ver. 18. _Who hath his eyes, &c...
_And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write_ “Next to Pergamos is Thyatira situated, at the distance of about forty-eight miles to the south-east. At present the city is called by the Turks Ak...
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:...
THE ADDRESS TO EPHESUS (vv. 1-7) Each local assembly is addressed on the basis of its responsibility as a testimony for God. Each of these assemblies actually existed and were functioning as assemb...
THYATIRA (VERSES 18-29) The City Of the seven letters, the letter to Thyatira is the longest. The city was known for manufacturing and marketing. Here every trade (silversmiths, candle makers, carpe...
18-29 Even when the Lord knows the works of his people to be wrought in love, faith, zeal, and patience; yet if his eyes, which are as a flame of fire, observe them committing or allowing what is evi...
THYATIRA was a city of Mysia or Lydia, not far from Philippi, the chief city of Macedonia; for Lydia, who traded in purple, and was of this city, went to Philippi to trade, as we read, ACTS 16:12,14....
Tertullian On Modesty Behold, I will give her into a bed, and her adulterers with herself into greatest pressure, unless they shall have repented of her works."[233]...
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MESSAGES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES (REVELATION 2:1 TO REVELATION 3:22). The Son of Man now gives John messages to the seven churches. Each of them follows a general pattern. Firstly an introduction based...
Revelation 2:18. The fourth church addressed is that of Thyatira, a city finely situated in a rich and well-watered district of Asia Minor, at no great distance from Pergamos, but possessing none of t...
IN THYATIRA (εν Θυατειροις). Some forty miles south-east of Pergamum, a Lydian city on the edge of Mysia, under Rome since B.C. 190, a centre of trade, especially for the royal purple, home of Lydi...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
CONTENTS: Message to Ephesus concerning things «which are.» Their first love left. Message to Pergamos concerning false doctrines. Message to Smyrna concerning persecutions. Message to Thyatira concer...
_Epistle the first._ Revelation 2:1. _The angel of the church of Ephesus,_ or the messenger of Christ; for the apostles, and apostolic men, while they remained in any church, were always regarded as...
TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA. To the evangelist. See note on Revelation 1:20....
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 2:1 Revelation 2:1 consists of seven “letters” or royal edicts. Each follows a pattern: (1) The royal author describes himself in terms from ch. Revelation 1:1. (2) “I kn...
4. THYATIRA. Vs. 18-29. Thyatira, the home of Lydia, Paul's first convert in Europe, still exists as a small city of perhaps twenty thousand inhabitants. It is supposed by some that Lydia may have ca...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 2:18. THYATIRA.—Situated between Pergamos and Sardis. Inscriptions show that it contained many corporate guilds, one being that of the dyers. Apollo was spe...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 3:1 _The epistles to the seven Churches. _Once more we have to consider rival interpretations. Of these we may safely set aside all those which make the seven letters to be pict...
4. THYATIRA: THE CHURCH THAT COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH THE SATANIC RELIGION OF BABYLON Background: Thyatira was an important military city founded by Alexander three hundred years before Christ. Thyat...
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks (Revelation 2:1); So the desc...
Acts 8:37; John 1:14; John 1:49; John 10:36; John 3:16; John 3:18; John 3:35; John 3:36; John 5:25; Luke 1:35; Matthew 17:5
THE CHURCHES AT PERGAMOS AND THYATIRA Revelation 2:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish, by way of introduction, to set before you the various seven statements which occur in the Letters to the seven Chur...
And to the angel of the church at Thyatira — Where the faithful were but a little flock. These things saith the Son of God — See how great he is, who appeared "like a son of man!" Revelation 1:13. Who...
The next epistle is directed by Christ, and written by St. John, to the church of Thyatira; in which epistle observe, 1. The name given to Christ, he is styled the Son of God; that is, by eternal gen...