you also have some people who hold to the teaching of [the] Nicolaitans. (v. 15)(New American Bible)
"Also" means "over and above" or "in addition to" and does not associate this additional doctrine with that antinomian one of Balaam, who taught adversaries to get the Israelites to sin against God.
but there is no description of what the works or teaching of the Nicolaitans is, nor why they should be hated.
Of course there is. It is right there in the word classifying the practice of the group. It is not the name of an Apostle-selected man of Godly disposition and life, never mentioned as being otherwise! You are simply repeating the same creation by the original priest-makers of a tale that directs the attention of their gullible followers away from the kind of organizational activity that Jesus hates: the effort to create a clergy class to psychologically and economically dominate those who have to earn a living to feed themselves and their children--who would become the "lay" class not encouraged to become spiritually mature enough to make and teach more disciples from their daily acquaintances, and thus preserving Jesus' Way of Life apart from interference of a clergy.
Why is it that you do not see that in appointing these deacons, The Apostles were NOT creating a class of priests, but of servants, of ministers, of stewards of the collection and distribution of necessary goods to the needy of Jerusalem.
My goodness! Though the Apostles were especially selected to inaugurate churches of Christ throughout Judea, and Samaria, even to the ends of the Earth, they were NOT to act as priests. They were NOT to even contemplate the humanistic kind of power-grabbing structure of inserting themselves as conduits through which one must go to get God's attention! They themselves were not, and never claimed to be priests! They knew that their Master hated the priests who were determined to kill Him! Though he permitted priests to influence the government to pin him to the Cross, His death showed how dastardly that kind of pernicious parasites the priesthood of Jewry was.
Is it not clear to you that the RCC and its stepdaughters Lutheran, Anglican, Episcopalian, Methodist all copy this hated domineering structure of two-class religions? And solidifying its hegemony by placing its center of power outside of, and untouchable by the members of its local churches?
Standing right in the middle of it, you tell me it doesn't exist? And you expect me or any thinking person to agree with you?
I'm flabbergasted by your boldness in maintaining an obviously untenable hypocritical thesis about "Nicolaitans".
Nicolaitans are those who form two-class religious societies, support them, and are officers of them, IMO.
The true priest is every member of a local, independent, autonomous assembly of believers, that baptizes professing born-anew professsors of faith in Christ, observes the Remembrance Supper regularly, preaches and teaches strong Bible doctrine, and keeps its practices clean by Scriptural church discipline. Its pro-tem offices are those appointed by concensus of the brethren.
That is who the real priests are. No nicolaitan priests need apply.