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Subscribe now wherever you get your podcast. Thank you for checking out this little teaser of the history of the papacy and church.

Here's a little taste of once coming up soon on the History of

the Papacy podcast. Yet I hold this against you. You have forsaken the love you had at first.

Consider how far you have fallen. Repent and do the things you did at first.

If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

But you have this in your favor. You hate the practices of the Nicolations, which I also hate.

Revelation 2.4.

Nevertheless, I have a few things against you.

There are some among you who hold the teaching of Balam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin, so that they ate food

sacrifice to the idols and committed sexual immorality. Likewise, you have also

have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolations, Repent, therefore, otherwise I will soon come to you,

and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth,

Revelation 2.14 through 16.

Not once, but twice we get mentions in the book of Revelation,

a group called the Nicolations,

the followers of Nicolaus of Pergamum.

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