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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a

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moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith.

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And today, I want to challenge you to think through what the letter to Pergamum in the

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book of Revelation has to say to the contemporary church today. And it does. It has plenty to say,

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as we will see, one of the motifs that we have been outlining for you all through the book of

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Revelation, as we've been studying it here, is that each of these seven letters to the churches

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of Asia not only speak to the churches of Asia, but also to the church throughout redemptive history.

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There are issues here that every church faces, and taken in totality, the seven letters to the

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churches of Asia address every issue that each church will deal with in the course of redemptive

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history. And that is just how God works. His revelation is full and complete for all men and

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women, redeemed by the Lord. This section of Revelation, very important. We aren't skipping

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over it lightly just to get on to the good stuff, the Revelation red heifer rapture issues. No, we're

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not passionate about who the beast is. We're not looking particularly for when the great seven-year

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tribulation will be. No, all of these things will be dealt with in their due time. But in the meantime,

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we are also looking at the issues that the church of Christ faces throughout redemptive history during

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this period, already 2,000 years gone. But these letters have been sufficient for the needs of the

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church during that period, and will be until Christ returns again. I look forward to that day. I hope you

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do too. Well, let's read this letter, the letter of the apocalypse, to the church at Pergamum, and see

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what it has to say to us as well. And I'm reading from Revelation chapter 2, verses 12 to 17, and it

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goes this way. To the angel of the church in Pergamum write, these are the words of him who has the sharp

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double-edged sword. I know where you live, where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name.

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You did not renounce your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to

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death in your city, where Satan lives. Nevertheless, I have a few things against you. You have people there

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who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balaak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating

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food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality. Likewise, you also have those who hold

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to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Repent, therefore, otherwise I will soon come to you and will fight

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against them with the sword of my mouth. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the

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churches. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white

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stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it. Unquote. Revelation chapter 2,

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verses 12 to 17, dealing with the letter to the church at Pergamum in Asia, all having to do very

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much with the control of power here as we come to the place of Satan's throne, as our Lord calls it,

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the place of Satan's throne. Great power central in Pergamum. Normal people make the fatal mistake

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that people who seek that power, seek political power, and acquire and hold power over others,

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they make the mistake of thinking that those kind of people are just like us and all they want to

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do is serve. They just want to be public servants. Well, how wrong, tragically and irredeemably wrong.

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No, the people in power over your lives today in government are not like you. They do not feel the

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feelings you do. They do not act from the same motives that you do. They do not seek the same ends

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that you do. There is a deep-seated flaw that is soul-deep in the lust for power that has brought pain,

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suffering, misery, and tyranny for millennia. George Orwell puts it this way in the mouth of one of his

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characters in his book, 1984. I quote now from 1984, George Orwell's book,

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the party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others. We are

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interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means, you will understand presently. We are

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different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those

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who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian communists came

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very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

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They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited

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time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where the human beings would be free and

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equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing

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it. Power is not a means. It is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a

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revolution. One makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution

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is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to

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understand me. Unquote. How he says it so plainly. Eloquently and succinctly put, George Orwell,

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you are incredibly naive if you think that most governments, including our own, wants your good

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and governs for the benefit of the people. Most men who seek power do so for the reasons articulated by

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Orwell. We are not interested in the good of others. We are interested solely in power, pure power.

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Unquote. No one understands this better than Satan. He tempted our Lord with this bauble in the

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wilderness. Do you remember from Luke chapter four in the temptation of Jesus? Luke says there,

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and the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time and said to

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him, to you, I will give all this authority and their glory for it has been delivered to me and I give it to

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whom I will. If you then will worship me, it will all be yours. Right? You can almost hear him cackling.

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How many men have taken the bait, dear listener? All for power. The lust for power has a corrosive

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and debilitating impact upon the soul, doesn't it? Lord Acton famously said, power corrupts,

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absolute power corrupts, absolutely. And Abraham Lincoln observed very trenchantly. He said,

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nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Unquote. This lust for power is a major motif in Revelation. I pointed this out to you before,

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especially in the introduction. The false claim to power by Satan and his minions vies with Christ's

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soul and exclusive exercise of power throughout creation. What the illusion of absolute power does

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to the human soul, we will also see throughout the book of Revelation, beginning here in Pergamum,

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where is Satan's throne as our Lord puts it? Well, this letter, I have three points to make with you

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concerning these issues. And our first point covers verses 12 and 13. And that point is Pergamum,

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although you find yourself in the belly of the beast, you refuse to compromise your witness to me,

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even unto death. Yes, the church in Pergamum found itself in the belly of the beast. But nevertheless,

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they refuse to compromise their witness to Christ, even unto death. Verses 12 and 13 read,

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to the angel of the church in Pergamum write, these are the words of him who has the sharp double-edged

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sword. I know where you live, where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not

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renounce your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death

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in your city where Satan lives. Our Lord begins by reasserting a very pertinent fact of his power,

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the fiat, original power of his word. He says, the words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.

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Here, our Lord is reasserting because he has already asserted in the original vision of chapter one,

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the creative power of his word. Remember back in chapter one, and we see all through these letters

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that they keep hearkening back to the original vision of Christ, where in verse 16 of chapter one,

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we read, in his right hand, he held seven stars. From his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword,

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and his face was like the sun shining in full strength, unquote. And we have seen how majestic

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and sweeping is this power. Men need machines and manipulative methods and the coercion of other

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men to get us to do what they want or to get things done. God, all he needs to do is speak,

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and it is done. This power accomplishes both blessing and judgment, depending upon the purpose

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of that word. Thus, the sword is two-edged, accomplishing either blessing or judgment.

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In the case of the cult of the emperor, the Nicolaitans, and the followers of Balaam,

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it is for judgment. In the case of the Pergamenes, it is for blessing, if only they conquer.

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Well, what are the Pergamenes doing for blessing? They're doing two things, our Lord says. Number one,

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our Lord says they hold to my name, which is a way of saying that they identify fully with the Lord

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Jesus Christ and all for which he stands. And because they hold to his name, our Lord will bless

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them with a new name in just a few verses. We'll see that coming. But secondly, the second thing the

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Pergamenes are doing for blessing, they profess his faith. That is all that is believed and put into

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practice. That's the idea of professing faith. You don't just repeat rote words. That is,

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they profess his faith. That is all that is believed and put into practice too. They profess

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his faith negatively stated in that they did not deny my faith. It is put this way,

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since the local officials of the cult of Caesar would have required them to curse Christ and bless

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Caesar as Lord. Not the Pergamenes. They profess his faith. They did not deny my faith. Now, we know this

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because we have records of how Roman officials went about handling these pesky Christians. For example,

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a Roman governor, Pliny the Elder, wrote this to his superior, the Roman emperor Trajan,

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about how he handled Christians who wouldn't worship Caesar, seeking confirmation for his behavior.

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Pliny, the governor, the elder, wrote this to the emperor. In the case of those who were denounced

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to me as Christians, I have observed the following procedure. I interrogated these as to whether they

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were Christians. Those who confessed, I interrogated a second and a third time, threatening them with

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punishment. Those who persisted, I ordered executed. These are the kinds of things that Christians

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faced in those days. Well, Pliny goes on to his superior emperor Trajan. He says, for I had no doubt

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that whatever the nature of their creed, stubbornness and inflexible obstinacy surely deserves to be

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punished. Those who denied that they were or had been Christians when they invoked the gods in words

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dictated by me, offered prayer with incense and wine to your image, which I had ordered to be brought for

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this purpose together with statues of the gods. And moreover, cursed Christ. These, I thought,

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should be discharged. Unquote. This was the procedure of Pliny the Elder, a governor of a precinct in Rome.

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And this was standard procedure throughout the empire. But it was especially so in Pergamum,

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where Satan's throne is, as our text says. What? Satan's throne. Satan's throne. It's not in hell.

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If only Satan's throne also has an annex here on earth in the rule and the authority of the beast.

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We'll see this in chapter 13, where it says, and I saw a beast rising out of the sea with 10 horns and

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seven heads, with 10 diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that

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I saw was like a leopard. Its feet were like a bear's and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it,

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the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. Unquote. Now, as we will see with crystal

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clarity, dear listener, that beast is Rome. Pergamum was all about emperor worship. Pergamum was one of

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the first minor kingdoms to voluntarily cede itself to the Roman empire without a fight.

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She had a temple to the emperor Claudius and Pergamum also strictly observed veneration of

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whomever, whomever, excuse me, was emperor as a god. Pergamum was a city built on a great conical

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escarpment that rose out of a flat plain in Asia Minor. Pergamum was festooned with pagan temples,

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including a prominent one at the top to Zeus and another one further down to Asclepius,

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who was the god of healing and medicine. Even without its devotion to the emperor then,

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Pergamum would have been the place where Satan dwells. But its pride, Pergamum's pride of place

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was as the center of emperor worship for the entire province. Its temple to the emperor bore images of

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the current ruling emperor seated upon his throne. Thus, I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne

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is, as our Lord says. Well, Revelation is not afraid to identify human government with evil,

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to Satan himself, and we shouldn't either. Romans 13 is not the end-all be-all of the Christian's

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response to government. It says in Romans 13, let every person be subject to the governing

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authorities. One must be in subjection, Paul tells us in Romans chapter 13, to human government.

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But there are times when the Christian must manifestly not be in subjection to the governing

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authorities. And Revelation is a virtual handbook on resistance to them. Most people don't recognize

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this. This is a lost motif in the book of Revelation. One of those means of resistance is what? Maybe join

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the local militia? No. One of those means of resistance is indeed the profession of the name

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and witness to Christ. This is our means of resistance, even to the point of death. To this extremity,

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our Lord refers. In the case of one of the number of Pergamum, that is Antipas, our Lord says,

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killed among you where Satan dwells. That little phrase that he uses, among you, is important.

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Antipas was not an isolated individual who happened to get caught off the compound. No. Antipas was an

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integral part of the community that was suffering itself as a community. All of those in Pergamum were

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standing for the name. All refused to deny my faith. Any one of them could have been killed. It just so

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happened that it was Antipas. So often, dear listeners, this is how it is. The persecution

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under Nero, we must broaden our view here, step back and take a broader look because the persecution

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under Nero was vicious and intense, often random, irrational, and demonic in its imagination.

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Believers were coated with pitch, for example. Believers were coated with pitch, and they were used

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to illumine Nero's garden parties well into the night. Believers were also sewn into freshly killed

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animal skins, the barbarity of this. Believers sewn into freshly killed animal skins and then thrown to

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wild animals to be killed and partially eaten, all for the entertainment of the emperor and his

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entourage. Remember what Orwell says. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture

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is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me, right? This is George Orwell.

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This is the impulse of power. Where Satan dwells indeed. And when you read the historical accounts

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before you go flying to Revelation Red Heifer rapture rants, you read the historical accounts

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available to you about Revelation. One book I would recommend is a book called Pagans and Christians

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by Robin Lane Fox, or the author Suetonius in his Lives of the Caesar, a contemporary work.

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When you begin to read these historical accounts, you get a feel for the way of life, the atmosphere,

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the ethos of the time, and how it was to actually live among those possessed and owned and ruled by such

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gods and demons. Christians lived a life of stark contrast in comparison to them.

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And our own time, in our own day, our own culture and time, is quickly descending into the same kind

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of evil and demonic days. America herself is fast becoming a place where Satan dwells.

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And I'm not being sensational or conspiratorial here. Look about you. Take the blinders off, listener.

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Please don't give me your condescension and your supercilious now, now, pastor. Because Luciferianism,

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for example, is on the rise, especially among the cultural elites. Screen the movie Eyes Wide Shut

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by Stanley Kubrick, for example, which helped to mainstream occultism. And we also have the quaint

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new age astrology buff of the 60s who read her horoscope in the post register every day and was

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thrilled to be living in the age of Aquarius. This same one is now descending into spells and curses

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and animal sacrifice. Scattered heavy metal culture in the valley. There's one person I know of like this

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in our own valley in which we live. The contrast is becoming more and more stark, dear listener.

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Pretty soon, no Christian who actually lives out his or her faith will be able to hide much longer,

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dear listener. By definition, we will be children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and

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twisted generation among whom you shine as lights in the world. This is how we were meant to live,

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as lights in the world. In contrast, then, to a crooked and twisted generation living in the dark.

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We, as a Christian community, we will have to stand for the name and not deny my faith,

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as the Lord says. This will have to be the de facto stance of every believer, dear listener.

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Some of us, then, will, like Antipas, be killed among you where Satan dwells.

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This is something we must anticipate and plan for and not plan to be raptured out of such circumstances.

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Look about you. The church is suffering all over the world, and you cheat, and you disillusion

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brothers and sisters like this by promulgating a doctrine of a pre-tribulational rapture.

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No, we are not going to be suffering then to build up our own righteousness. We are to suffer,

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to follow in Christ's footsteps. Our Lord himself said, like teacher, like student, like master,

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like servant. We are to be like Christ and follow in his footsteps. And suffering for the name is part

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of that without becoming self-righteous, without building up righteousness for yourself as a

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consequence. No, we suffer because our master did. We suffer because our teacher did. And Christians are

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doing this all over the face of the globe without anticipating being raptured out of it. And you

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shouldn't either. Listener, it is time indeed for us to be more like the church at Pergamum and stand

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for the name and be ready to face what we need to face. Certainly no mean commendation for them, right?

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No mean commendation. They indeed have stood for the name. They have not denied my faith. Those saints

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in the precious town of Pergamum. But there is also then a word of caution and rebuke that our Lord

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has for them. And that brings us to point two, verses 14 to 16. Although you witness to be in the belly

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of the beast, you compromise your witness by admitting in the back door what you refuse at the

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front, verses 14 to 16. And we're going to take those up next time we're together because our time has

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run out. But we will take up the rest of the letter to Pergamum the next time we meet. But in the

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meantime, this has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. And we,

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New Geneva, meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and

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Boulevard. Now we are going through the book of Revelation right now as it stands. And it has

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been a great series. I've gotten so much positive feedback, some negative. I know there are some of

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you that disagree with my presentation of the book of Revelation. And I encourage you to go ahead and

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give me some feedback, whether it's positive or negative. I always learn by all the feedback I get,

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whether it's good or bad. So I'm open to receiving maybe some critique or suggestions that you might

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have for my pursuit of this series. But we're preaching through the book of Revelation in our

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congregation on Sunday morning. And we meet for holy worship at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the

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corner of 4th and Boulevard. I invite you to join us. Perhaps you've been thinking of visiting. You've

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been in the shadows now for a while. You've been thinking of visiting our church. And this is a good

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time to do it. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th

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and Boulevard. And you can call us for more information or more feedback at area code 208-523-0196.

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Once again, come and visit us. I just encourage you to receive a warm welcome. And more information,

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area code 208-523-0196. Area code 208-523-0196.