Revelation 2:12-29 continues with messages to churches of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) during the apostle John’s time. Each of these messages includes a specific word to a specific church, but there are also lessons applicable to the lives of believers today. The third letter is to the believers in Pergamum (or Pergamos). The fourth letter is to the church in Thyatira.

 

Additional scriptures referenced include  Numbers 25:1-3; Numbers 31:15-16; Revelation 2:6; Revelation 21:6; Exodus 28:21; and Acts 16:14.