Verses 18-29: Thyatira EV 2:18-19{in Addressing the Angel of the Assembly at Thyatira, the Lord Identifies Himself As the Son of God, Whose Eyes Are Like a Flame of Fire and His Feet Like Fine Brass. (See the Imagery of Rev. 1:14-15.) the Angel of That Assembly Has Allowed a Certain Woman, Whom the Lord Calls "Jezebel," but Who Calls Herself "a Prophetess," to Teach and Seduce His Servants to Commit Spiritual Fornication. Having Already Given Her Space to Repent, He Knows She Has Not Done so. Therefore, Unless She and Those Who Commit Adultery With Her Do Repent, He Will Cast Them Together Into a Bed and Into Great Tribulation and Will Kill Her Children With Death. All the Assemblies Will Know Then That He Is the One Who Searches the Reins and Hearts of Men. He Gives to Everyone According to His Works. Everything Is Found Out, and Nothing Is Overlooked

As to the faithful ones in that place though, He places no further burden upon them. They are not, as others have sought in vain to do, to bring about reform in that wicked system. Rather, they are simply to continue steadfastly faithful to the light they already possess till He comes.
The Lord's promise to the overcomer in that system then, whose aim has always been the exercise of worldly power over the nations of men, is particularly suitable. That promise is that He will give the overcomer just such authority when He Himself exercises His own right to do so. In the meantime, He gives him the hope of the morning Star, which is that which appears in the skies just before the dawn of a new day. That day will be the bright and glorious millennial day, and the morning Star the Lord Himself coming for the assembly just before that day begins. In that day, that power will be absolute and palpable in the overcomers hand. To the believer in that system with its worldly and carnal ambitions, but who awaits with quiet patience its fulfillment, such a promise must be exceedingly precious and encouraging.
Historically, Thyratira corresponds to the assembly from the fourth century on to the present time. Morally, she grew out of Pergamos, which paved the way for her; and she dominated Europe almost without relief until the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It was then that the light of the gospel was re-ignited in what is commonly called "the reformation movement" (See Sardis in the next chapter.). Till then, she ruled over kings and nations with both military and ecclesiastical might under the title of "The Holy Roman Empire." She will continue on beyond the rapture until she is definitively judged. (See Matt. 13:33; Rev. 2:25-8; 14:8; 16:19; and chs. 17-18.)