LETTER NUMBER 4 IS TO THE BELIEVERS AT THYATIRA, WHICH WE HEAR OF IN ACTS 16 AS A STOP ON PAUL’S JOURNEY, WHERE HE MET A WOMAN NAMED LYDIA, WHO BECAME THE FIRST RECORDED PERSON TO ACCEPT YAHUSHA DURING THAT TOUR.
SHE WAS A SELLER OF PURPLE, WHICH THIS SMALL VILLAGE WAS FAMOUS FOR, TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN THE MAGNIFICENT CITIES AND CENTRES OF LEARNING THAT WERE IN EPHESUS, SMURNA AND PERGAMOS. AND YET HERE TOO, EXISTED A JEWISH POPULATION AND THEREFORE A SYNAGOGUE, AND NOW AN ESTABLISHED POPULATION OF NEW COVENANT BELIEVERS IN YAHUSHA ALSO.
THYATIRA MEANS:
1. `RULED BY A WOMAN, ‘DOMINATING FEMALE’,
`A DAUGHTER’ OR `FEMININE OPPRESSOR’
2. `SACRIFICE OF THE MASS’
OR ‘BURNING INCENSE’
3. `SWEET SACRIFICE OF
LABOUR OR CONTRITION’ `
A WOMAN’ IS THE SYMBOL FOR A BRIDE / ASSEMBLY (TRUE OR FALSE) AND WE WILL SEE THE EMPHASIS OF `THAT WOMAN’ IN THIS LETTER.
“Now write this to the Messenger of the Assembly in Thyatira, ‘I am the Son of Yahuah, with eyes like a flame of fire and feet like burnished brass ... so listen to Me.
MANY YISHARALITE KINGS WERE REFERRED TO AS THE `SON OF YAHUAH’ IN ANCIENT TIMES, SO APART FROM HIS DIVINITY (AS THE CREATOR’S SON), THIS LETTER IS COMING FROM THEIR LITERAL NATIONAL KING FROM THE ROYAL LINE OF DAVID. BUT AS HE DESCRIBES HIS EYES AND FEET (THROUGH LANGUAGE USED BY DANIEL AND EZEKIEL TO DESCRIBE THE ANCIENT ONE….THE FATHER…) IT’S OBVIOUS THAT THIS DIVINE BEING IS MESSIAH YAHUSHA HIMSELF.
AS WITH MOST OTHER CITIES, PAGANISM THRIVED IN THYATIRA, THEIR SUN-DIETY BEING APOLLO, NEXT IN POWER TO HIS FATHER ZEUS AND REPRESENTED BY FLAMING RAYS AND FEET OF BURNISHED BRASS (ANOTHER REASON FOR YAHUSHA’S SELF-DESCRIPTION), AS WELL AS THE FACT THAT THYATIRA HAD A LOCAL GUILD OF BRASS COPPERSMITHS THERE, BEING ONE OF THEIR SPECIALTY TRADES. BRASS IS ALSO A SYMBOL OF THE JUDGMENT OF SIN, SO WHAT YAHUSHA'S EYES OF FIRE DISCERN, HIS FEET OF BRASS WILL JUDGE.
I see all your behaviour, love, service, belief and also your endurance ... so good onya guys, for your behaviour is getting better and better everyday, and it’s affecting many others too.
UNLIKE EPHESUS (WHO HAD LOST THEIR FIRST LOVE) THESE GUYS WERE GROWING AND BEING EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE NOW THAN IN THE BEGINNING!
THIS LETTER CONTAINS THE MOST ENCOURAGING PRAISE AND THE MOST DAMNING DISAPPROVAL BY YAHUSHA THAT'S GIVEN TO THE 7 ASSEMBLIES.
But I do have a major problem with you allowing that woman Jezebel (who actually calls herself a prophetess!) to teach and lead My servants astray, into dirty whoring and eating food offered to idols, and she's unchallenged!
SOME VERSIONS SAY `YOUR WIFE JEZEBEL’ (AS IN THE ASSEMBLY MESSENGER’S WIFE) JUST LIKE JEZEBEL WAS THE WIFE OF KING AHAB IN THE ANCIENT TEXTS.
ANYONE CATCHING A REPETITIVE THEME IN THESE LETTERS?
SEXUAL SINS AND FOOD ISSUES SEEM TO BE RAMPANT AND ALSO AT THE TOP OF YAHUSHA’S LIST OF THINGS HE HATES, AND BY COMPARING THIS UNNAMED WOMAN TO JEZEBEL (WHO WAS THE WIFE OF THE WICKED KING AHAB), THE ACCUSATION IS THAT SHE IS A SUPPORTER OF IDOLATRY, PAGANISM AND EVERYTHING THAT IS ANTI-TORAH.
JEZEBEL’S GOAL (IN THE ANCIENT TEXT) WAS TO RID YISHARAL OF YAHUAH'S TORAH OBEDIENCE AND SET-APART LIFESTYLE AND SHE WAS WELL ON HER WAY TO DOING IT. SO WE MUST ASSUME THAT THIS JEZEBEL WOMAN’S GOAL WAS SIMILAR OR SHE HERSELF WAS DECEIVED.
SO HOW DID THIS JEZEBEL WOMAN WIND UP GETTING SUCH INFLUENCE IN THIS ASSEMBLY? BECAUSE SHE CLAIMED TO BE A PROPHETESS! A PERSON CLAIMING "KNOWLEDGE" HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MAGNETIC DRAW FOR YAHUAH’S PEOPLE. BUT BY THE TIME OF THE `EARLY ASSEMBLY WRITINGS’ (NT), THE TERM "PROPHET" HAD EVOLVED SOMEWHAT, AND FOR A FOLLOWER OF YAHUAH (WHO HELD FAST TO THE SCRIPTURE) IT MEANT MORE OF A TEACHER OF YAHUAH’S WORD BECAUSE IN GENERAL IT WAS BELIEVED AMONG JEWS THAT THE ERA OF THE PROPHETS WAS OVER AND ANY COMMUNICATION FROM YAHUAH WAS CONTAINED IN THE SCRIPTURES.
HOWEVER THERE WERE THOSE (AND ALWAYS WILL BE) WHO HONESTLY THINK THEY HOLD THE OFFICE OF A PROPHET (ALONG THE LINES OF DANIEL AND EZEKIEL) AND THAT THEY ARE REGULARLY SHOWN THE FUTURE AND GIVEN SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE.
THE TRUTH IS `MY SHEEP HERE MY VOICE' !! - ALL OF THEM! - SO TAP IN!
SO THIS JEZEBEL WOMAN, A FALSE PROPHET, HAD TRICKED PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN THIS ASSEMBLY, INCLUDING THE LEADERSHIP. THE THRUST OF HER TEACHING WAS TO DENY THE WORD OF YAHUAH AND TO DECEIVE PEOPLE INTO BELIEVING THAT YAHUAH PERSONALLY GAVE HER NEW LAWS AND COMMANDS THAT APPARENTLY REVOKED THE OLD LAWS AND COMMANDS (JUST LIKE `FREEDOM' AND `LIBERTY' TODAY ARE TAKEN TO THE FURTHEST EXTREME - ALLOWING OUTRIGHT DISOBEDIENCE).
AND THE TWO MOST SERIOUS CRIMES IN YAHUSHA'S EYES WERE HER TEACHINGS TO EAT FOOD SACRIFICED TO IDOLS AND COMMITTING SEXUAL SINS.
I gave her time to repent of her whoring and idolatry, but she refuses to give up her lucrative business.
APPARENTLY SOMEONE IN THE ASSEMBLY HAD THE GUTS TO CONFRONT HER AND TELL HER WHAT SHE WAS DOING WAS EVIL, SO SHE WASN’T NAÏVE OR INNOCENT IN HER BEHAVIOUR. BUT THE LEADERSHIP DIDN’T HAVE THE SAME GUTS TO PUT HER OUT IN ORDER TO SAVE THE OTHER BELIEVERS (THOSE BELIEVERS WHO SHE WAS INFECTING WITH LIES).
WHY WOULDN’T THE LEADERSHIP ACT? PROBABLY THE AGE-OLD REASON: THE WOMAN WAS POPULAR, HAD A FOLLOWING, AND THE LEADERSHIP DIDN’T WANT TO ROCK THE BOAT. THEY ALSO LIKELY CONFUSED LOVE WITH TOLERANCE.
“So now I’m throwing her and all her idolatrous sexual partners into a death-bed and will heap great affliction and torment on them, unless of course they repent of their wicked behaviour. I’ll even kill all her children, so that all the Assemblies will know that outward appearances and show don’t impress me, for I’m the One searching hearts with x-ray vision, and will dish out favour or consequences to each person according to their behaviour.
THIS IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF YAHUAH THAT WE HEAR ABOUT ALL THROUGHOUT THE ANCIENT WRITINGS (OT), THAT HE WILL DISPOSE OF MANY EVIL PEOPLE FOR THE SAKE OF PROTECTING THE REMAINDER OF HIS PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT YET FALLEN. AND THE HOPE IS ALSO THAT PEOPLE FAR AND WIDE WILL FEAR YAHUAH WHEN THEY HEAR ABOUT WHAT HE DID AND THAT THIS FEAR WILL KEEP THEM FROM DOING THE SAME, EVEN IF THEY WERE ABOUT TO.
IN THYATIRA THERE WAS A PROPHETESS CALLED SAMBELLE (ALSO SYBIL), A MIXTURE OF PAGANISM AND JEWISHNESS MAKING A SYNCRETISTIC RELIGIOUS CULT. THE ORACLE OF SAMBELLE WAS A WOMAN ENDUED WITH THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, JUST OUTSIDE THE CITY AND MANY CAME TO CONSULT THIS ORACLE FOR GUIDANCE.
THERE WAS ALSO A PROPHETESS WHO CONDUCTED PAGAN RITES IN THE TEMPLE WORSHIP OF APOLLO, THE SUN-DEITY, WHERE WOMEN CONTROLLED THE WORSHIP THROUGH SENSUALITY AND THE SPIRIT OF DIVINATION, GUIDING THE AFFAIRS OF MEN.
SHE WAS NOW IN THE ASSEMBLY, BRINGING IN IDOLATRY AND IMMORALITY. FOR HER, IT WAS PERMISSIBLE TO BE INVOLVED IN THE IDOL TEMPLES AND THE ORGIES THAT WENT ON IN THEM.
THE NAME 'JEZEBEL' IS SYMBOLIC, MEANING, "PRINCESS, WITHOUT CO-HABITATION, CHASTE, ISLAND OF THE HABITATION, ISLE OF THE DUNGHILL', AND SHE WAS TRUE TO SO MUCH OF HER NAME!
REMEMBER THE WOMAN WITH THE SPIRIT OF DIVINATION (SPIRIT OF PYTHON) THAT PAUL HAD TO DEAL WITH IN ACTS 16?
IF WE LOOK AT YAHUSHA'S 7 PARABLES AND THE 7 ASSEMBLIES HERE IN REVELATION, THE MIDDLE PARABLE HAS A WOMAN WHO HID THE LEAVEN IN THE MEAL LOAVES UNTIL IT WAS ALL LEAVENED ...
... AND RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE ASSEMBLY OF THE 7, THERE IS THIS WOMAN JEZEBEL, TEACHING AND SEDUCING THE BRIDE OF YAHUAH. BOTH MIDDLES OF THE SEVENS INVOLVE A WOMAN!
JEZEBEL IS THE ONLY WOMAN RECORDED IN SCRIPTURE WHO 'PAINTED HER FACE',
(SCARING RIDICULOUS RELIGIOUS WOMAN TODAY AWAY FROM WEARING MAKE-UP) ??
JEZEBEL'S JUDGMENT IS RECORDED IN 2KGS.9 WHERE SHE WAS THROWN OUT OF A WINDOW, AND THE DOGS LICKED HER BLOOD AND ATE HER FLESH. YAHUAH USED KING JEHU TO FULFILL THE JUDGMENTS OF ELIJAH'S PROPHETIC WORD UPON THIS 'DOMINATING FEMALE' AND 'FEMININE OPPRESSOR', A DAUGHTER OF BAAL WORSHIP, A FALSE PROPHETESS, AND A MURDERER OF THE PROPHETS OF YAHUAH. SHE INTRODUCED IDOLATRY, IMAGE WORSHIP AND THE KISSING OF BAAL, SETTING UP AN IDOLATROUS PRIESTHOOD, PROPHETIC RELIGION. SHE ALSO SHED THE BLOOD OF YAHUAH'S BELIEVERS.
SHE DID NOT COME INTO THE ELECT NATION OF YISHARAL BY (1) BIRTH, OR BY (2) FAVOUR, AS DID RUTH THE MOABITESS AND RAHAB (THE HARLOT), BUT BY (3) MARRIAGE (ONE WHICH WAS FORBIDDEN BY THE WORD OF YAHUAH). IT WAS AN EVIL AND ILLICIT UNION AND SHE WAS A TEACHER AND A SEDUCER OF THE PEOPLE OF YAHUAH.
... DIFFERENT METHODS TO BRING ABOUT THE SAME EVIL AND CORRUPTED ENDS — THE DESTRUCTION OF YAHUAH'S ASSEMBLY! SATAN'S SPIRIT OF JEZEBEL — A FALSE PROPHETESS, TEACHER AND SEDUCER OF THE PEOPLE OF YAHUAH. EACH OF THESE SEEMED TO HAVE THE SAME DOCTRINE AND DEEDS: IDOLATRY AND IMMORALITY.
SO THIS WOMAN IN THYATIRA EXERTED CORRUPTING INFLUENCE IN THE ASSEMBLY, AND TOOK ON THE VERY NATURE AND CHARACTER OF THIS ANCIENT WICKED WOMAN, BECAUSE THE SAME SPIRIT THAT RULED IN THIS WOMAN IN THYATIRA WAS THE SAME SPIRIT THAT RULED JEZEBEL IN YISHARAL. THE SPIRIT BEHIND THE IDOL WAS THE SPIRIT THAT CONTROLLED JEZEBEL, WHO IN TURN CONTROLLED HER HUSBAND, WHO THEN CONTROLLED YISHARAL. IT IS THE SAME SPIRIT DEVELOPING BASICALLY THE SAME CORRUPT DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES, UNDER DIFFERENT NAMES, AND USING ...
THIS SAME SPIRIT IS SEEN FULLY DEVELOPED IN REV.17, WHERE SHE IS THEN REVEALED AS 'THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, THE GREAT WHORE', WHO HAS CORRUPTED THE NATIONS OF EARTH WITH THE WINE OF HER FILTHINESS AND FORNICATIONS OF WHORING.
Now let Me tell you and the rest in Thyatira, that if you don’t get sucked into this wicked teaching of Jezebel or the 'Depths of Satan’ (as they call them) ... then I won’t make your life any harder for you (BECAUSE YOU'LL HAVE ENOUGH DRAMA WHEN YOU BOOT THAT WOMAN OUT!) Just keep guarding what you have until I return.
‘DEPTHS OF SATAN’ IS THE LIFTING UP OF ONESELF THROUGH KNOWLEDGE AND GNOSTIC INTELLIGENCE, WHICH WAS MANIFEST BIG-TIME HERE AND IS THE COUNTERFEIT OF `THE DEPTHS OF YAHUAH’ IN 1 COR 2, WHICH BRINGS A PERSON DOWN INTO HUMILITY . . . CONSIDERING THAT IT WAS THE GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHERS THAT HAD GREAT INFLUENCE AT THIS TIME, AND WE KNOW FROM OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT THE GNOSTICS WERE A CONSTANT THORN IN THE SIDE OF BELIEVING ASSEMBLIES, THAT LIKELY THESE DEEPER THINGS WERE INDEED BASED ON GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHIES. GNOSTICISM INVARIABLY TOUTS THE HUMAN INTELLECT AS SUPREME AND SO INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ARE SAID TO GAIN GREATER SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING THAN ORDINARY PEOPLE (OPPOSITE TO YAHUSHA'S WAYS!)
THE ENEMY WITHIN WAS WORSE THAN THE ENEMY WITHOUT. SO SATAN'S TACTICS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, IF YOU CANNOT DESTROY THEM FROM WITHOUT, THEN CORRUPT THEM FROM WITHIN!
Everyone who overcomes and guards the behaviour I’m teaching you until the end, will have Authority over the nations and will shepherd them, leading with a rod of iron, and the nations will be as fragile as a clay pot which is broken to pieces, unable to push-back. My Father gave this gift of Authority to Me and now I’m sharing it with you. You'll even have the morning star. If you’ve got ears, then listen to what the Spirit says to the Assemblies.”
HE IS THE NEW LIGHT BREAKING THROUGH TO THE HEARTS OF THE BELIEVERS AS HE OPENS AN INTER-DIMENSIONAL PORTAL WITHIN THEM JUST LIKE THE SHEKINAH ESTEEM IN THE EARLIER TABERNACLE/ TEMPLE. THIS ALSO CORRESPONDS TO THE TREE OF LIFE, IMMORTALITY, THE HIDDEN MANNA AND WHITE STONE, AS PROMISED THE OVERCOMERS ALSO.
THE MORNING STAR RISES IN THE DARK TO USHER IN THE NEW DAY. YAHUSHA IS THE MORNING STAR AND AS THE WISE MEN SAW THE STAR IN HIS FIRST COMING, SO SHALL THE OVERCOMER RECEIVE THE STAR RELATIVE TO YAHUSHA’S SECOND COMING, FOR HE CAME AS A STAR FIRSTLY BUT WILL BE A BLAZING FORCE OF RADIATION AND PERFECTION AT HIS RETURN.
