Here are the words of the Son of God. He is the One whose eyes are like blazing fire. His feet are like polished bronze. He says, ¹⁹‘I know what you are doing. I know your love and your faith. I know how well you have served. I know you don’t give up easily. In fact, you are doing more now than you did at first.

²⁰‘But here is what I have against you. You put up with that woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophet. With her teaching, she has led my servants into sexual sin. She has tricked them into eating food offered to statues of gods.

²¹‘I’ve given her time to turn away from her sinful ways. But she doesn’t want to. ²²She sinned on a bed. So I will make her suffer on a bed. And those who commit adultery with her will suffer greatly. Their only way out is to turn away from what she taught them to do. ²³I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the One who searches hearts and minds. I will pay each of you back for what you have done.

²⁴‘I won’t bother the rest of you in Thyatira. You don’t follow the teaching of Jezebel. You haven’t learned what some people call Satan’s deep secrets. ²⁵Just hold on to what you have until I come.

²⁶‘I’ll give authority over the nations to all who overcome and who carry out my plans to the end. ²⁷It is written,

‘ “He will rule them with an iron rod.

He will break them to pieces like clay pots.”

I have received this authority from my Father. ²⁸I will also give the morning star to all who overcome.

²⁹‘Those who have ears should listen to what the Holy Spirit says to the churches.’

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