INTRO: We are in the process of looking at the historical purpose of our Lord’s address to the church at Perrgamos. Perrgamos is the counselee, and we looked at some of the history of this place. Though the city up on the hill has long ceased to exist as a place of life, the seat of Satan continues, but it has been moved in the early 1900’s to Berlin, Germany.
We have looked at the counselor. It is the one who had the two edged sword. We learned that there were two classes of Roman governors, those that had the right of the sword and those who did not. Perrgamos had a governor who had the right of the sword. They wielded the right to execute anyone on the spot. My son checked out the brass bull I spoke of last message, and if you can handle reading about cruelty, there is some very interesting information available about this on the internet.
We have looked at the commendation, such as it was. Basically it was, “You are hanging on.” We began looking at the criticism and it is extensive. First, they had in their midst those who held to the doctrine of Balaam. And we left off with an assignment. Be honest with me now, who did it? And here is the question that was left for you after you read Numbers 22-24: What is the doctrine of Balaam?
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