Fr. Mike Schmitz

Behold, I will throw her on a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation unless they repent of her doings, and I will strike her children dead.

And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches mind and heart.

And I will give to each of you as your works deserve.

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay upon you any other burden.

Only hold fast what you have until I come.

He who conquers and who keeps my words until the end, I will give him power over the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received power from my father.

And I will give him the morning star.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Chapter 3 The Message to Sardis And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, I know your works.

You have the name of being alive, and you are dead.

Awake and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.

Remember then what you received and heard, keep that and repent.

If you will not awake, I will come like a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.

Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments and they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy.

He who conquers shall be clothed like them in white garments and I will not blot his name out of the book of life.

I will confess his name before my father and before his angels.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

The message to Philadelphia.

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, The words of the Holy One, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens.

I know your works.