Revelation 2:20-21
But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.
Exactly.
“Stage Two” starts the slippery slope to apostasy.
You are what you “tolerate”.