We find John’s letter to the Assembly of Pergamum in Revelation 2:12-17. Why does John refer to Pergamum as Satan’s Throne?
In these 4 videos (3 of Fig Tree ministries and 1 of Our Daily Bread) we are going to have a look at the Ancient city of Pergamum and the Belief System of the People of the city.
Pergamus was bekend as die plek waar die troon van die Satan is.
Nà die fees van Bélsasar en die val van Babel (539 v.C.) het Kores dan die afgodspriesters uit Babel verban en hulle het hulle hoofsetel in Pergamus gevestig tot 133 v.C. waarna hulle gerieflikheidshalwe die Romeinse gode aanvaar het wat in baie opsigte met hulle eie ooreengestem het
Die troon van die Satan was ’n groot altaar vir Zeus, die “hoofgod” van die Griekse pantheon. Zeus was bekend as die heerser oor die hemele en vader van die ander gode en van die sterflike mitologiese helde. Hierdie altaar was vlak by die tempel van Athene, die Griekse godin van wysheid en die kunste.
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The origin of Pergamum is unknown, but such an easily defended hill would have been inhabited at a very early date. The main weakness of its defense was a lack of water.
Pergamum was first mentioned in Xenephon’s Anabasis as the meeting place in 399 B.C. of Xenephon and the commander of the Spartans who had just defeated the Athenians in one of the Peloponnesian Wars. Nothing more is heard of Pergamum until after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. Then Lysimachus, one of his generals, took control of western Asia Minor. Later there was a series of kings named alternately Eumenes and Attalus who extended and strengthened their kingdom and spent some of their booty decorating the towering citadel of Pergamum with beautiful white marble structures. What is left of their contributions continues to attract people even now to their city.
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In A.D. 92, according to tradition, Antipas of Pergamum, a personal disciple of the Apostle John, was roasted to death in a brazen or copper bull during the persecutions of Emperor Domitian.
YaHUsha called Antipas “My faithful witness” in Rev. 2:13. The word “martyr” comes originally from the ancient Greek where it is a legal term for a “witness”, as for someone who would give a testimony in a court of law.
The governor ordered Antipas to offer a sacrifice of wine and incense to a statue of the Roman emperor and declare that the emperor was “lord and god.”
But Antipas refused and if one would reject the divinity of the emperor, then that is the equivalent of rejecting the city of Rome and believers were killed for this. Antipas was thus sentenced to death on the Altar of Zeus.
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