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Wednesday Night Bible Study - Notes - A Study In Revelation Lesson 20 - The Church Of Pergamos P1

TEXT: Revelation 2:12-17


  1. The angel was the pastor at the Church of Pergamos

  2. Referred to the state church from AD 300 to AD 500

  3. This was a very difficult time for the work of God

  4. This church's role in church history laid the groundwork for the catholic church

  5. Pergamos was an inland city that sat 50 miles north of Smyrna

  6. It was the provincial capital of Roman Asia

  7. Famous for a library of nearly 200,000 volumes, second only to the library of Alexandria

  8. While rich and wealthy, idolatry reigned

  9. Statues were erected to Dionysus, Athena, Asclepius, Demeter as well as three temples to the Roman CULT

  10. it held an alter to Soter Zeus

  11. The two main religions here were the worship of Dionysus, the god of the royal kings symbolized by the bull

  12. Asclepius, the savior god of healing, represented by the snake.

  13. The latter feature caused Pergamos to be labeled "The lourdes of the ancient world"

  14. The time frame of this church a little after AD 300 began with constantine.

  15. After a dream Constantine caused the persecutions of the Smyrna age to cease and Christianity became the religion of the state

  16. Constantine became not only the civil leader of the state, but the religious one

  17. The conference of Nicae was called to deal chiefly with the nature and person of christ

  18. 318 Bishops attended this conference, five times more than the laity

  19. Christianity cheered this leader, esteemed him highly because he ended persecution

  20. It was the death nail of the church

  21. Constantine had a sick view of the new birth - Baptism in particular

  22. This church suffered a serious relapse from the state of Smyrna

  23. She condoned EVIL on many levels and was condemned for IT

  24. Constantine's elevation of the church to that of the state was NOT A BLESSING but brought A CURSE!

  25. The church lost her prophetic voice and her pilgrim was as she married a political system and ceased to be "CALLED OUT BODY"


  1. Ephesus - Apostolic church - Ended 100 AD

  2. Smyrna - Martyr church - 100-300 AD - Rome hurled 10 bloody persecutions against the church

  3. Pergamos - State church - 300 AD to 500 AD. Constatine great legalized Christianity making it state religion of Roman Empire - Invasion of paganism into church

  4. Thyatira - Papal church AD 500 - Present. Rome assumed power over church - Pope

  5. Sardis - AD 1500 - Luther - Justification of faith

  6. Philadelphia - Missionary church - AD 1800 to AD 1900s

  7. Laodicae - Present day apostate to rapture

Adam To Christ 4000. Church 1991 years

5991 years of human history

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