The Church in Ephesus, a Centre of Sexual Idolatry

Ephesus was known as a centre of consumerism and sexual idolatry. It hosted the pan ionian games, which was second biggest sporting event in ancient world after olympics. When john was pastoring the church in ephes mary, the mother of jesus, was part of the congregation. But if you follow the story on, john refuses to bow the knee to the emperor domitian, he is exiled to the island of patmos. Does that sound familiar to some of the progressive cities in the west of our day? Like this is jesus speaking into that context,. But he wants to speak into our context.