Revelation 2:24-25 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, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
Not everyone in the church had succumbed to the teaching of Jezebel. They had not been deceived by culture and its embrace of the lies about immorality and idolatry. They had rejected these, possibly at great cost to themselves. The cost was so significant that Jesus told them that he would not given them greater burdens. They only needed to endure where they were.
There are situations where we seem to reach our limits of survival as holy people in an unholy world. God promises that he will not let us be tempted beyond what we can endure (1 Cor 10:13). Suffering and temptations could end up deceiving us away from God. We may feel like God has abandoned us, but God has not. We must remain faithful. Faith is trusting in the darkness. The Thyatiran Christians were living in the darkness of a city saturated with sexual immorality and idolatry. It had deceived some of the people in their fellowship. This passage is both a warning and an assurance about dealing with cultures that embrace the darkness. As believers, we must rise above the decay and be beacons of light.
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