I, JOHN, WAS ON THE ISLAND THAT
IS CALLED PATMOS.
I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE
LORD'S DAY AND HEARD BEHIND ME,
A LOUD VOICE.
TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN
PERGAMUM RIGHT, I KNOW YOUR
WORKS AND WHERE YOU DWELL, WHERE
SATAN'S THRONE IS.
YOU HOLD FAST TO MY NAME AND
DIDN'T DENY MY FAITH.
EVEN IN THE DAYS IN WHICH ANT
PASS WAS MY FAITHFUL MARTYR
KILLED AMONG YOU WHERE SATAN
DWELLS.
TODAY ALL THAT IS LEFT OF
PERGAMUM ARE RUINS.
WHEN THE APOSTLE JOHN WROTE HIS
LETTER TO THE CHURCH THERE, IT
WAS 1 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL
CITIES IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
PERGAMUM HAD A UNIQUE STATUS,
IT WAS THE POLITICAL CENTER.
IT WAS FROM THERE THAT ALL OF
THE RULINGS WERE MADE WHICH
EFFECTED THE WHOLE OF ASIA
MINER.
THE CITY'S ACROPOLIS, THE
COLLECTION SO GREAT THE ROMAN
GENERAL MARK ANTHONY PRESENTED
IT AS A WEDDING GIFT TO
CLEOPATRA.
PERGAMUM WAS A THRIVING CITY.
WAS DO THE PERGAMUM CALL IT THE
SEAT OF SATAN.
ON 1 SIDE IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL
CITY.
ON THE FLIP SIDE IT WAS THE
DARKEST EARIEST CITIES IN THE
WHOLE ROMAN EMPIRE.
THE THE CITY HAD 3 TEMPTS
DEDICATED TO THE WORSHIP OF THE
ROMAN
EMPIRE, ANOTHER FOR
GODDESS ATHENA AND ZEUS.
MANY BELIEVE THIS ALTAR IS THE
THRONE OF SATAN MENTIONED IN THE
BOOK OF REVELATION.
THAT WORD THRONE WAS USED TO
DESCRIBE A CHAIR USED IN A
PERSONAL PRIVATE RESIDENCE.
IT WAS THE CHAIR FOR THE LORD OF
THE HOUSE, THE MASTER OF THE
HOUSE.
THE VERY FACT JESUS WOULD USE
THAT WORD IN THIS VERSE MEANS
SATAN FELT AT HOME THERE.
HE SAT ON A THRONE THERE.
IT WAS HIS TERRITORY.
HE WAS THE MASTER OF THAT HOUSE.
CITY ALSO HAD A HEALING
CENTER.
IT WAS BUILT IN HONOR OF THE
SERPENT GOD.
IT WAS A CROSS BETWEEN A
HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SPA, THEY
COULD GET MUD BATHS TO SURGERY.
THIS WAS NO ORDINARY DOCTOR'S
VISIT.
IF YOU WERE A TERMINAL
PATIENT, YOU WERE NOT ALLOWED TO
GO IN.
THE PRIESTS DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR
SOMEONE DIED.
IN FACT THERE WAS A HUGE SIGN
JUST ABOVE THE OFFICIAL ENTRANCE
TO ES KWEPIAN THAT SAID DEATH IS
NOT PERMITTED HERE.
ONLY WAY YOU ARE GOING TO GET IN
TO BEGIN WITH IS IF THEY KNEW
YOU WERE GOING TO LIVE.
PATIENTS ENTERED THROUGH THIS
UNDERGROUND TUNNEL AND DRANK A
SEDATIVE WHILE NON POISENESS
SNAKES CALLED ON THEM.
IT WAS BELIEVED THE SNAKES
CARRIED THE HEALING POWER.
AND IF A SNAKE SLITHERED ACROSS
YOU WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING AT
NIGHT.
THAT WAS A DEVINE VINE THAT
HEALING POWER WAS COMING TO
YOU NEXT MORNING THE PATIENTS
TOLD THEIR DREAMS TO THE PRIEST
WHO PRESCRIBED THEIR TREATMENTS.
FINALLY THE PATIENTS MADE CLAY
SCULPTURES OF THE BODY PARTS
THAT NEEDED HEALING.
THE PEOPLE OF PERGAMUM
WORSHIPPED A MYRIAD OF GREEK AND
ROMAN GODS.
WHEN CHRISTIANITY ARRIVE WITH
THE BELIEF OF 1 GOD, THE CITY'S
PAGAN PRIEST WENT ON
ATTACK.
IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION,
JESUS CALLED ANT PUS, MY
FAITHFUL MARTYR, HE WAS THE
BISHOP OF PERGAMUM ORDAINED BY
APOSTLE JOHN.
HE COMPLAINED TO THE ROMAN
GOVERNOR.
THE PRIEST TESTIFIED THAT DEMONS
APPEARED TO THEM IN DREAMS AND
TOLD THEM THE PRAYERS OF
INDEPENDENT PUS WERE DRIVING
THEM OUT OF THE CITY.
HE CAST OUT SO MANY DEVILS
THAT THE DEMONS, THE SPIRITS HAD
BEEN COMPLAINING TO PAGANS, YOU
HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT ANT
PUS.
ANT PUS WAS ORDERED TO OFFER
WINE AND INCENSE AND DECLARE THE
EMPEROR WAS LORD AND GOD.
HE REFUSED.
IF YOU REJECT THE DEVINTY OF
THE EMPEROR, IT IS EQUIVALENT TO
REJECTING THE CITY OF ROAM.
BELIEVERS WERE KILLED.
ANT PUS WAS REJECTED.
SURROUNDING IT ARE THE MOST
FAMOUS MARBLE FREEZES.
THEY PORTRAY
THE
BATTLE BETWEEN
THE GOD AND THE GREEK GIANT.
THIS IS DESIGNED FOR HUMAN
SACRIFICE.
TAKE THE VICTIM, PLACE HIM
INSIDE THE BULL AND HIS HEAD
WOULD GO INTO THE HEAD OF A
BULL, THEN LIGHT A HUGE FIRE
UNDER THE BULL.
THE FIRE HEAT TODAY BRONZE, THE
PERSON INSIDE THE BULL WOULD
SLOWLY BEGIN TO ROAST TO DEATH.
AND AS THE VICTIM WOULD BEGIN TO
MOAN AND CRY OUT IN PAIN, HIS
CRIES WOULD GO THROUGH ALL OF
THE PIPES WHICH WERE IN THE HEAD
OF THE BULL SO IT SEEMED TO MAKE
THE BULL COME ALIVE.
EVEN IN THE MIDST OF THE
FLAMES, ANT PUS DIED PRAYING FOR
HIS CHURCH.
A FEW YEARS LATER, APOSTLE
JOHN WROTE
THE BOOK OF
REVELATION
MENTIONING THE DEATH
OF ANT PUS ON THIS SPOT.
HERE IN PERGAMUM, ALL THAT IS
LEFT IS
FOUNDATION.
TODAY THE
ALTAR OF ZEUS IS MORE
THAN 1,000 MILES AWAY.
GERMAN DISMANTLED THE ALTAR AND
TOOK IT TO BERLIN.
IT WENT ON DISPLAY IN PERGAMUM
MUSEUM IN 1930, JUST IN TIME TO
INSPIRE THE MOST BRUTAL
DICTATORS THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
