Me, even when Antipas, My faithful witness, was martyred among you by Satan’s devotees.
14 And yet I have a few things against you. You tolerate some among you who do as Balaam did when he taught Bala how to ruin the people of Israel by in-volving them in sexual sin, and encouraging them to go to idol feasts.
15 Yes, you have some of these very same followers of Balaam among you!
16 Change your mind and attitude, or else I will come to you suddenly and fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
17 Let everyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches: Every one who is victorious shall eat of the hidden manna, the secret nourishment from heaven; and I will give to each a white stone, and on the stone will be engraved a new name that no one else knows except the one receiving it.
18 Write this letter to the leader of the church in Thyatira:
This is a message from the Son of God, whose eyes penetrate like flames of fire, whose feet are like glowing brass.
19 I am aware of all your good deeds your kind-ness to the poor, your gifts and service to them; also I know your love and faith and patience, and I can see your constant improvement in all these things.
20 Yet I have this against you: You are permitting that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach My servants that sex sin is not a serious matter; she urges them to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.
21 I gave her time to change her mind and attitude, but she refused.
22 Pay attention now to what I am saying: I will lay her upon a sickbed of intense affliction, along with all her immoral followers, unless they turn again to Me, repenting of their sin with her;
23 And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches shall know that I am He who searches deep within men’s hearts and minds; I will give to each of you whatever you deserve.
24, 25 As for the rest of you in Thyatira who have not followed this false teaching (“deeper truths,” as they call them-depths of Satan, really), I will ask nothing further of you; only hold tightly to what you have until I come.
26 To every one who overcomes-who to the very end keeps on doing the things that please Me-I will give power over the nations.
27 You will rule them with a rod of iron just as My Father gave Me the authority to rule them; they will be shattered like a pot of clay that is broken into tiny pieces.
28 And I will give you the Morning Star!
29 Let all who can hear, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.
