INTRO: We have come to the third church, Perrgamos. From Ephesus, which is right on the Mediterranean Sea, you go north between 30 and 40 miles and you come to Smyrna. One is following along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Go north another 35 miles or so inland from the sea, and there is Perrgamos or Pergamum as some call it. Picture now a large plain, and in the plain a high plateau rising far above the plain, and on that high rising area a city, and you have some idea of Perrgamos. When John wrote it was a capital city and had been for some 400 years. It is a very religious city and one of the things you will find all over Perrgamos is snakes. Straus says it was known, not for commerce, but religion. Lahaye says, “Two of the most prominent religious systems of the city were the worship of Bacchus (the god of revelry) and the worship of Asclepius (the god of healing)” (57). I remember the god Bacchus from my studies of wine. He was the Roman god of wine and the immorality and loosening of tongues and speaking one’s mind are all part of this god of wine. He lived in people in Perrgamos. The prominent sacrifices made to him were goats and swine.
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