...I tend to view the seven churches in Revelation as representing Christians in their seven incarnations.
One day I will make a thread on the Seat of Satan...
Revelation 2:13
"I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth"
The Seat of Satan is in Pergamos... specifically in the Temple of Asclepeion...
"...down in the valley, there was the Sanctuary of Asclepius (also known as the Asclepium), the god of healing"
Asclepeion - Wikipedia
This is where they worshiped the Serpent on a Pole... Nehushtan. We call it the Rod of Asclepius...
2 Kings 18:4
"He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan"
Long story short, the Serpent on a Pole represents Mankind's RNA/DNA.
Thus, the Seat of Satan is in our very DNA and is the thorn in our flesh.
The Forbidden Fruit was the DNA (Seed of the Serpent) that corrupted Adam and Eve...
It's in all of us.