The Book of Revelations pt. 5

Greetings Friends, Saints, and Family. Today the study of the seven churches in the book of revelations will continue with the church of Pergamos. Here God is telling the angel of the church in pergamos to write and reveal that their works are known; and he commends them for holding fast to the name of God, and for not denying the faith (even in those days where Antipas was a faithful martyr who was slain where Satan dwells). These were mid-evil days during the Roman empior. 

Today, all that's left of the city of Pergamum, now in modern-day Turkey, are ruins. But when the Apostle John wrote his letter to the church there, it was one of the most influential cities in the Roman Empire. 

“Pergamum had a unique status that was different than any other city because it was the political center, says Rick Renner, the author of A Light in the Darkness, a study of the seven churches of Asia Minor. “It was from there that all the rulings were made that affected the whole of Asia Minor.”

The people of Pergamum were inventors and innovators. They perfected a parchment made out of calfskin and built the world's first psychiatric hospital. Pergamum was also a well-known center for the arts. The city’s theater seated ten thousand people a night. The acoustics were so good that a whisper on stage could be heard all the way in the top row. 

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