3. “ I will cast her into a bed . . . and I will kill her children” --2:21-23. The Lord had given this leader of degenerates in the Thyatira church “ a place to repent,” that is, a respite, or period of probation, as he had done for the antediluvians in the days of Noah--but instead of accepting this suspension of sentence and repenting, they proceeded in their degeneracy from bad to worse, and the Lord said: “ I will cast her into a bed,” that is, of pain, instead of the sensuality which represented spiritual fornication in the corruptions of doctrine and practice. This symbolic Jezebel would be cast into a bed of retribution for her sins, referring to the judgment that would be brought upon the followers of these apostate teachers in the churches. And the Lord added: “ I will kill her children” --that is, by exterminating the seeds of wickedness and false doctrine, thus preventing its offspring.