3 And you have savlanut (patient endurance), and you have persevered because of ha-Shem of me and have not become weary.
4 But I have this against you, that you abandoned your Ahavah HaRishonah. [YIRMEYAH 2:2]
5 Therefore, let there be zikaron (remembrance) of from where you have fallen and make teshuva (repentance, turning from sin to G-d) and do the Ma'asim HaRishonim; but, if not, I am coming to you [pl.] and I will remove your menorah from its place, unless you make teshuva.
6 But this you have, that you loathe the ma'asim ra'im (evil deeds) of the Nicolaitans, which also I loathe. [TEHILLIM 139:21]
7 The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot; To the one who wins the nitzachon (victory) I will give to him to eat of the Etz HaChayyim (Tree of Life), which is in the Gan-Eden of Hashem, [BERESHIS 2:9; 3:22,24; also BERESHIS 2:8; YECHEZKEL 28:1; 31:8,9 TARGUM HA-SHIVIM)]
8 And to the malach (angel) of the Kehillah in Smyrna, write: These things says HaRishon and HaAcharon, who became niftar (deceased) and had his histalkus (passing), and came back to Chayyim (Life): [YESHAYAH 44:6; 48:12]
9 I have da'as of your tzarah (Mt 24:15) and oni poverty) --but you are oisher (rich)--and the loshon hora of the ones making the claim and declaring themselves to be Bnei Brit, and are not [of the Brit Chadasha], but are a Shul [deluded by] Hasatan.