Handout for Revelation 4 (3)
Laodicea
Thyatira - "high tower" or "continual sacrifice"
Commended for much good
condemned for introduction of paganism
1. Justification by works.
2. Baptismal regeneration.
3. Worship of images.
4. Celibacy.
5. Confessionalism.
6. Purgatory. (i.e. Sanctification not complete at death)
7. Transubstantiation – continual sacrifice of Christ.
8. Indulgences – bought to reduce time in purgatory.
9. Penance – torment of body to reduce time in purgatory.
10. Mariolotry – Worship of Mary.
Rev 2:22 - 23 Roman Catholic Church (those not born again) go through into Great Tribulation. Could be basis of Laodicea