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	Macedonia
		Thyatira lay a little to the left of the road from Pergamos to Sardis (Strabo 13:4, who calls it "a Macedonian colony"); on the Lycus, a little to the S. of the Hyllus, at the N. end of the valley between Mount Tmolus and the southern ridge of Tetanus.
		Another temple at Thyatira was dedicated to Sambethe, and at this shrine was a prophetess, by some supposed to represent the Jezebel of Rev 2:20, who uttered the sayings which this deity would impart to the worshippers.
		Thyatira is now represented by the modern town of Ak-Hissar on a branch line of the Manisa-Soma Railroad, and on the old Rom road 9 hours from Sardis.
	www.pilgrimtours.com /greece/info/thyatira.htm (1349 words)

	The seven churches: The letter to the church in Thyatira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The church in Thyatira was in a city which was a centre for the worship of Apollo, known as the 'son of God' because he was supposed to be the son of Zeus.
		Thyatira was famous for the manufacture of purple dye, and numerous references are found in secular literature of the period to the trade guilds which manufactured cloth (Swete quoted by Walvoord).
		Thyatira was famous for its purple cloth which the harlot woman Babylon also wears in Rev 17:4 and in 18:4 God commands his people to come out of her 'so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues'.
	www.apocalipsis.org /t2-thyatira.htm (1885 words)

	Thyatira
		Upon the early coins of Thyatira this Asiatic god is represented as a horseman, bearing a double-headed battle-ax, similar to those represented on the sculptures of the Hittites.
		Another temple at Thyatira was dedicated to Sambethe, and at this shrine was a prophetess, by some supposed to represent the Jezebel of Rev_2:20, who uttered the sayings which this deity would impart to the worshippers.
		Thyatira is now represented by the modern town of Ak-Hissar on a branch line of the Manisa-Soma Railroad, and on the old Rom road 9 hours from Sardis.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/thyatira.htm (934 words)

	Revelation Chapter 2, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira
		Thyatira is best relates to the period known as the Dark ages of the Church, where the doctrine of Jesus Christ’s deity was taught but other elements were added which corrupted the Church.
		In Thyatira, a women some feel the wife of the pastor of the church was a leader teaching and directing the servants of Christ to participate in the Greek pagan sex rites.
		Thyatira is a picture of Catholic Church, today many Catholics who read their Bible claim to be “Born Again” not according to Protestant teachings but the teachings of Jesus Christ.
	www.truthnet.org /christianity/revelation/revelation2 (5759 words)

	Philologos \| The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia \| Chapter 23
		Thyatira was situated in the mouth of a long vale which extends north and south connecting the Hermus and Caicos Valleys.
		Thyatira was still a small city, retaining strong memories of its military origin, and yet with fortifications decayed and dismantled in the long freedom from terror of attack, which had lasted since 189 BC.
		Considering that a guild of bronze-smiths is mentioned at Thyatira, we cannot doubt that this coin commemorates the peculiar importance for the welfare of Thyatira of the bronze-workers' handicraft; and we must infer that bronze work was carried to a high state of perfection in the city.
	philologos.org /__eb-lttsc/chap23.htm (2143 words)

	Wayne Smith Bible Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thyatira was noted for its numerous guilds (roughly the equivalent of today’s labor unions).
		Thyatira’s main industry was the production of wool and dyed goods (especially purple goods, dyed with purple dye extracted from the madder root), but inscriptions also mention guilds for linen workers, makers of outer garments, dyers, leather workers, tanners, potters, bakers, slave dealers, and bronze smiths.
		Thyatira was strong where Ephesus was weak; in fact, it is the first of the seven churches to be commended for its love.
	users.aristotle.net /~jgj/Rev_2_Thyatira.htm (3945 words)

	the church in Thyatira
		Thyatira at the time of this epistle was an important manufacturing city, its citizens being mostly poor and humble labourers, just the opposite of those in Pergamos.
		It is believed that the ecclesia of Thyatira owed its origin to the labours of Lydia after she returned home.
		Some believe that Thyatira is equivalent to thygatira, meaning a daughter indicating feminine oppression by a woman who claimed to be a prophetess but was leading the ecclesia into apostasy; and that this false prophetess was an adulteress.
	www.carelinks.net /books/wyns/thyatira.htm (2652 words)

	Turkish Odyssey/Places of Interest/Aegean/Bergama-Akhisar
		The ancient city of Thyatira is occupied by the modern town of Akhisar meaning in Turkish "white castle" named from the ruins of an old castle.
		Thyatira was an insignificant town until it was refounded by Seleucus Nicator in the beginning of the 3C BC.
		Commercial guilds in Thyatira were connected with the pagan religions of the city and involved participation in pagan ritual, feasts and celebrations.
	www.turkishodyssey.com /places/aegean/aegean1.htm (2968 words)

	Thyatira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thyatira was the fourth of the seven Churches of Asia Minor to receive an epistle from the Apostle John (Rev. 2:18-29).
		Ramsey notes that “The condition of Thyatira was the best measure of the power of Pergamum.” It was considered by some ancients to be a city of Mysia, but to others a city of Lydia.
		Thyatira's ancient ruins were left untouched until Rustem Duyuran began to excavate the site from 1968 to 1971.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /Tours/Interest/Biblicals/thyatira.htm (503 words)

	bible.org: The Message to Thyatira (Rev 2:18-29) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thyatira was smaller than Pergamum and 40 miles southeast, but it too was another city in the Roman province of Asia, in the west of what is now Asiatic Turkey.
		Thyatira was standing in idolatrous compromise and allowing a false authority to supplant the authority of Christ.
		Thyatira had a definite and even greater ministry of service and endurance, one that seemed to be motivated by faith and love (cf.
	www.bible.org /page.asp?page_id=1754 (2529 words)

	The Church at Thyatira
		One of the Seven Churches of Asia, Thyatira signifies "sweet savor of labor" or "sacrifice of contrition." This church is the only one that is commended for an improvement in spiritual things, yet tolerated Jezebel.
		Thyatira was a garrison town, a center of commerce, and the records preserve references to more trade-guilds.
		The final promise to the Church of Thyatira was that Christ would give the conqueror, the martyr, the morning star which the faithful will see in the new age: a symbol of a new day.
	latter-rain.com /escha/thyr.htm (603 words)

	Bible Study: REVELATION SERIES: 8. Revelation 2:18-29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Verse 18: Thyatira was situated 65km southeast of Pergamos on the south bank of the Lycus River.
		Thyatira also had a temple to the sun god Apollo (Tyrimnes), who was the patron of all the trade guilds.
		This purple was a turkey-red dye obtained from the madder root that is prolific in the Lycus Valley.
	reformerkev.esmartweb.com /bstudies/bsrev8.html (1556 words)

	The Church of Thyatira
		It’s interesting that Thyatira means “unceasing sacrifice of perfume.” To this day, the sacrifice of the Mass, with its perfume, is a continual ordinance within the Catholic Church.
		The Thyatira picture is not a pretty one, and yet it’s not all negative.
		Thyatira, then, presented a church that was clearly ill, though not yet dead.
	www.prophetofdoom.net /thyatira.html (2106 words)

	The Disaster of the Church that Tolerates Sin - John MacArthur
		The letter to Thyatira in Revelation 2:18-29 is the longest of the seven letters, and it is written to the most insignificant of the seven cities.
		Thyatira was located exactly thirty miles from both Sardis and Pergamos (the capital city of Asia Minor for three hundred years).
		The problem that faced the body of believers at Thyatira was not persecution; the church was being completely dominated by the woman Jezebel, and all of the evil people that followed what she was propagating.
	www.biblebb.com /files/MAC/sg1441.htm (4843 words)

	Christ Reformed Church: To the Church in Thyatira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thyatira was located on the Hermus River in a broad valley through which the military forces of the ancients world's great empires often passed on their way to more strategic points elsewhere.
		Thyatira was not known for its culture or wealth, but instead for its almost accidental role in military history.
		Thyatira is like Gettysburg or Panmujom, cities which are famous for battles fought in them even while the cities themselves had no real strategic significance.
	www.christreformed.org /resources/sermons_lectures/00000083.shtml?main (3540 words)

	Resisting Deception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thyatira lay about forty miles south-east of Pergamum, the capital of the kingdom of the same name that, once captured by the Romans, was made into the province of Asia.
		Thyatira was a military outpost, guarding the vulnerable south-eastern approach to Pergamum.
		The tradesmen of Thyatira were dazzled by their gods, dazzled by Rome which had brought peace, dazzled by her emperors, dazzled by Caesar Domitian who styled himself as divine, as the son of God.
	www.pbcc.org /sermons/bell/1506.html (4503 words)

	Revelation 2:18-29
		Thyatira was the manufacturing and trade center of the region of western Asia.
		Whether there was actually a woman with the name Jezebel living there in Thyatira, or whether this is the name by which she is designated because of her actions, we cannot be certain.
		The Christians in Thyatira and throughout Asia were being oppressed by the Roman authorities, and it might not have appeared that Christ had much authority, much less that they had any authority.
	www.christinyou.net /pages/revthy.html (3149 words)

	In Search of Thyatira, Church of God
		Thyatira Era Begins The pope in 1096 described the Valley Louise in Dauphiny, France, as infested with "heresy." It was a result of Paulician and Bogomil evangelization of the Alpine regions.
		Half of Jesus' message to Thyatira, the longest of the seven, is devoted to warning against "Jezebel." Yet in spite of the warning, many did fall into her trap!...
		This tendency was prophesied of the Church in Thyatira in Revelation 2:20–24.
	www.cogwriter.com /thyatira.htm (9342 words)

	Thyatira
		Vespasian began great undertakings at Thyatira; it was visited by Hadrian in the year 123, and by Caracalla in 215.
		Lydia, the woman converted by St. Paul at Philippi, was from Thyatira (Acts, xvi, 13-15); St. John addressed an epistle to the "angel of the church", to whom he gives great commendation, but after having criticised a false prophetess (Apoc., ii, 18-29).
		Among the bishops mentioned by Le Quien (Oriens christianus, I, 875-78), we may note Seras, in 325; Fuscus, at the Council of Ephesus in 431; Diamonius, in 458; Basilius, in 878.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/thyatira.html (329 words)

	The Church At Thyatira
		Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you): Only hold on to what you have until I come.
		Thyatira was perhaps most noted because it was an important trade and manufacturing city.
		Boniface III thereupon secured from Emperor Phocas a decree acknowledging that "the See of Blessed Peter the Apostle should be the head of all the Churches" and that the title of "Universal Bishop" should be reserved exclusively for the bishop of Rome.
	www.digisys.net /users/ddalton/the_church_at_thyatira.htm (726 words)

	SermonCentral.com: Thyatira by Dan Campbell
		Thyatira was a minor town on the Circular Road of Asia, some twenty five miles southeast of Pergamum and halfway between Pergamum and Sardis.
		This letter to Thyatira is the longest letter to the churches, for this was the most corrupt of all the seven churches.
		What matters is that some Christians of Thyatira were brazenly practicing sexual immorality in the name of “being tolerant.” This is the opposite situation of the Ephesian Christians, who had tested and rejected false teachers.
	www.sermoncentral.com /sermon.asp?SermonID=55476 (889 words)

	Thyatira Presbyterian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thyatira is one of the oldest Presbyterian churches west of the Yadkin River.
		Tombstone inscriptions are documented in the book "Inscriptions on Stones in Thyatira Cemetery, 1755 - 1966" which was authored by the Thyatira Memorial Association and published in 1967, The State Archives, located on East Jones Street, in Raleigh, NC has a copy.
		Thyatira Presbyterian Church is located on Highway 150 in the Mill Bridge community about 10 miles west of Salisbury.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/5267/church_thyatira_presbyterian.html (122 words)

	Understanding The Apocalypse--Sermon 5 from the Revelation
		The evidence is clear, the Church at Thyatira shot itself in the foot.
		As the idolatries and unfaithfulness of the false teachers were tolerated in Thyatira, likewise they are too often tolerated in churches today.
		Thyatira was a church whose members became so involved in works that they forgot to uphold sound doctrine and consequently, false teaching found a foothold in their Church.
	home.att.net /~understandingtheapocalypse/ch05.html (4382 words)

	The Church at Thyatira
		The city of Thyatira was famous for its making of a purple dye that was used to dye the garments of Kings, Queens, and emperors.
		It is possible that Lydia after her conversion returned to Thyatira and was instrumental in founding the church.
		This woman in the Church at Thyatira apparently was an evil and wicked woman.
	www.thelivingwordtbc.com /rev9.htm (2212 words)

	Ancaster Canadian Reformed Church
		Also, the patron god of Thyatira and of the local guilds (Tyrimnos) was worshiped at their social events.
		The serious problem in the church at Thyatira was that she tolerated the woman Jezebel.
		In Ephesus, the church took action against them; in Pergamum, this heresy existed as a cancerous growth; in Thyatira, it was actively promoted by this Jezebel of a woman, and it was tolerated by the church.
	www.ancasterchurch.on.ca /sermons/nov1702.html (3347 words)

	The Message to the Church in Thyatira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Thyatira was the smallest of the seven cities addressed in Revelation.
		Thyatira still possessed strong and vivid memories of her military origin even though her fortifications had decayed and been dismantled.
		The church in Thyatira did not allow this false teaching just once or on an occasional basis, but they were continually allowing the presence of false teaching within their midst.
	www.valleybible.net /resources/AdultEducationClasses/Revelation/rev2d.shtml (4550 words)

	Church #4 - Thyatira
		There is no evidence that the Christians of Thyatira were persecuted by the government the way they were in Smyrna and Pergamum, however it seems understood that there were issues with the trade guilds and the impact they had on the holiness of the Christians life.
		Many interpreters think He chose to announce Himself this way to Thyatira because of the temple to Apollo who was supposedly a son of Zeus, who as we studied earlier, was supposedly the father of all gods.
		When we look at the history of Thyatira, she was probably teaching the Christians that it was ok to be involved in the trade guilds and the activities that went on during gatherings and meetings.
	www.angelfire.com /fl5/hleewhite/thyatiratom.html (4056 words)

	FOCUS on RELIGIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		he ancient city of Thyatira is located approximately 80 Kms to the north-east of Smyrna (Izmir) and lies mostly under the current city of Akhisar.
		There was a large colony of Jewish settlers known to be living in the city throughout the centuries.
		ut the rest of you in Thyatira have not followed this evil teaching; you have not learned what the others call 'the deep secrets of Satan.' I say to you that I will not put any other burden on you.
	www.focusmm.com /religion/re_h_a15.htm (484 words)

	Thyatira: Jezebel or Jesus?
		Thyatira was positioned in a long open valley where a river flowed.
		Historically Thyatira symbolizes the longest period of church history: almost a 1000 years from 538 to the sixteenth century reformation.
		Thyatira was the center of a dyeing industry.
	mcdonald.southern.edu /sermons/03/0426.htm (2611 words)

	Message to Thyatira - Pastor Peter's Bible Insights
		Thyatira was not built in a location with natural defenses.
		Antiochus, the son of Lykus, a native of Thyatira, as a benefactor.”
		Lydia, whom Paul converted to the gospel in Philippi, was from Thyatira.
	hometown.aol.com /peterwebit/RevThyatira.html (540 words)

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