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The Church at Sardis Was Spiritually Dead - Revelation 3:1 – 3:6 (commentary)

Sardis is about 30 miles south of Thyatira, a wealthy city, and the capital of Lydia. The people were proud and thought they could not be overtaken but Cyrus the Great of Persia stormed the city and took it over in the sixth century. From a religious standpoint it was a center of pagan worship ...