The Corrupted Church, Part A.D. Thyatira Pale Horse 3 rd, 4 th, 5 th, & 6 th Trumpets
Jesus is walking among the lamp stands.
Dark Ages Chained-Bible Charlemagne
Henry Waits in Snow Pope Gregory VII Canossa 1076
Arabs Turks 5 th & 6 th Trumpets
Pope Urban II Emperor Alexios I 1095
Holy Land Local Battle Reasons for Pope’s Decision
The First Crusade
King Richard I Saladin
Church of the Nativity Bethlehem Church of the Holy Sepulcher -- Jerusalem
The Route of Marco Polo Marco Polo China in 1200s
Cathedral of Notre-Dame Paris, France
Dominic of France Francis of Assisi
Letter to Thyatira “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.” --Revelation 2: 24, 25
Pope Innocent III
1208 Persecution of Christian Dissidents
Peter Waldo Persecution of Christian Dissidents Lyon, France
The Waldensees Persecution begins in 1211
The Inquisition Pope Innocent III Painting by Francisco Goya
King Philip IV Pope Boniface VIII 1305
Boniface IX Benedict XIII Innocent VII The “Great Schism” Three Popes at Once!
“Hundred Years War” 1337 Joan of Arc
The “Black Death” 1340s
John Wycliffe England in 1300s
From Wycliffe’s Bible Wycliffe with Lollards “Morning Star of the Reformation”
1415 Persecution of Christian Dissidents John Huss
1416 Persecution of Christian Dissidents Jerome
Fall of Constantinople 1453 Columbus Lands in America 1492 Vasco de Gama s
Gutenberg Printing Press Florence, Italy The Renaissance 1439
da Vinci’s Last Supper Michelangelo’s Creation of Man Rafael’s The School of Athens
Next Time -- Sardis The “Reformed” Church