Only this nearness of the Lords coming to reward the faithful provides an effective motive to be tenacious (Alford; Moffatt)." This has nothing to do with His presence for us; but after our own delight and thanksgiving have gone forth towards Jesus, the testimony to others most suitably follows the song of praise that had, I may say, involuntarily burst forth at His name. With Jesus Christ the new kingdom of David was inaugurated; and, just as in the ancient kingdom Eliakim had the keys to admit to the royal presence, so Jesus is the door to admit to the kingdom of God. It began at the coast at Ephesus and it had to find a way to climb up to the central plateau 8,500 feet up. Had they not left their first love? They are waiting for Him expectantly without such an idea as His thief-like surprise. Another thing is observable, when one looks into what is said here. It was the deipnon ( G1173) that Christ would share with the man who answered his knock, no hurried meal, but that where people lingered in fellowship. Churches with few men of learning or eloquence in them may yet be greatly approved of the Lord, who cares more for grace than learning, more for faith than talent. There are seven Churches, yet in each of them the Spirit operates with all his presence and power. Wish. Verse 2: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and hisleft footon the earth, It is interesting to note that the third century work The Apostolic Constitutions (8: 46) says that Archippus was the first Bishop of the Church in Laodicea. Clericalism came in rapidly after this. which is about to come . (a) In the cities of Asia Minor, and in Philadelphia, when a priest died after a lifetime of faithfulness, men honoured him, by erecting a new pillar in the temple in which he had served and by inscribing his name and the name of his father upon it. It was the last bastion of Asian Christianity. 'But he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as a vessel of the potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father." (iv) Apart from all these things, for any man the door of prayer is always open. For this we must stand up and fight to the death. The Katakekaumene was a great volcanic plain bearing the marks of the lava and the ashes of volcanoes then extinct. ", Come you, then, and search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, and they are they which testify of Christ and let it not be said that you will not come unto him that you might have life. And this is seen to be the occasion of the letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. He will eat supper with you.Now, the Jew would not eat with the Gentile. If men would take away from us certain dainties which are sweet but which are not needful, we might be content to let them spoil us of such superfluities; but if they come to take away bread and water from the poor and needy, then we cannot have it. God has promised all Christians deliverance from that outpouring of His wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:10). Not at all: the Christian ought to remember that he is a heavenly man, not an earthly one. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches ( Revelation 3:21-22 ). They are many and most would paint pictures which would be vivid and real to the people of Philadelphia. my beloved is knocking. The process of becoming the slave of sin does not happen overnight. Since the whole Philadelphia church was faithful (Revelation 3:8) Revelation 3:10 is probably not an inducement to remain faithful. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy ( Revelation 3:4 ). This is the characteristic day of the Christian; it is the birthday of his distinctive blessing, and it assuredly ought to be the especial joy of his heart, not the less because it is the first day, the resurrection day of grace and new creation, not the seventh day of creation rest and law. Victory lies before you. Whenever we are off our watch, we lose ground. The wealth of Sardis was legendary. The A, B, Come and See Revelation A commentary on the Book of Revelation by Elder James Stroud 9781644689851 (Paperback, 2021) Delivery UK delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working days. And I don't feel that I have this great obligation to share the Gospel to the Jews. This indifference can be broken down only by the actual demonstration that Christianity is a power to make life strong and a grace to make life beautiful. [3.] ( Acts 20:29-31). Jezebel therefore is the appropriate symbol now, as Balaam was just before. So famous were its doctors that the names of some appear on the coins of Laodicea. The Church was the Israel of God ( Galatians 6:16). Search us, O Lord, know our hearts, try us, O God, know our thoughts, if there is a way of unrighteousness, if there is a way of deceitfulness, God help us that we would not deceive ourselves, and be blind to the truth. When God judges the ungodly, Christ will protect those who have remained loyal to him. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. He is seen as the true God in the outpouring of His wrath upon a Christ-rejecting world. He must, therefore, be ever on the watch. "I John, your brother, and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the isle which is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus." I am far from saying this because I do not feel for them much. In the ancient world to be stripped naked was the worst humiliation. "The sons of those who oppressed you shall come bending low to you; and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet" ( Isaiah 60:14). Again, we can understand an angel employed a real angelic being as the means of communication between the Lord and His servant John; but it would be harsh to suppose that His servant John writes a letter from Christ to a literal angelic being. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, perfect one" (SS 5:2-6). He who is first is necessarily God; and He who is first, being God, must certainly be last. Revelation 3:10 Context. I counsel thee buy from me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness does not appear; anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see ( Revelation 3:18 ). If we do not provoke Christ to shut this door against us, men cannot do it. Philadelphia had a great characteristic which has left its mark upon this letter. At the same time there is the most careful guard against the supposition that he was not in the full enjoyment of his own place in Christ. It is rather an imminent event that will come suddenly and unexpectedly (Walvoord). You wonder why they are ministers. Faith sees that the blessed One, the holy and the true, is the same that has the key of David. Identification of Christ as Sender = He who has the seven Spirits of God. Getting back to who it is promised to be kept from the Great Tribulation, let us now look at the context and audience of Revelation 3:10. The Jews who were the great merchants and bankers of the world and spread through out the Roman empire would soon be brought low, as well as the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. They had lost the very perception of what was for God. Thus grace is always equal to every difficulty. But he who is faithful will in the end come to a time when he is like a pillar fixed in the Temple of God and goodness has become the constant atmosphere of his life. Do you not in this merely sink to the world's level? "He that believeth hath everlasting life," for "this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." I will also keep thee from the hour of trial Norris' Commentary on the Book of Revelation, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. Because you have kept my command to endure, I, too, will keep you safe from the hour of testing, which is to come upon the whole inhabited world, to test those who dwell upon the earth. So we come to the end of the second section of the book of Revelation, the things which are. It is not "from the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." It is very possible, when the epistles were sent out in the days of John, that no particular emphasis would be laid on "the things that are;" but inasmuch as these things have been going on from that day to the present, we can see the immense force such a phrase thereby acquires. No other religion has the vision of a seeking God. Sardis stood in the midst of the plain of the valley of the River Hermus. May every church of the Lord Jesus Christ, whether it have little strength or much, be concerned to be steadfast in the faith loyal to King Jesus firm in the truths which Christ has taught us by the Holy Ghost. When the children of Israel had hopelessly betrayed the Lord when their departure was complete before His eyes not only in the first rent-off portion, the ten tribes of Israel, but even the remaining two, when there was a stay and a lengthening of the tranquillity, when not only Judah, but even the house of David, the anointed king, the last regular link between God and His people, failed, then we find that God addressed not His people, but an only chosen faithful servant as His witness. The spiritual usage of seven in prophetic scripture cannot be questioned. Revelation 3:10 in all English translations. There is the most careful exclusion of His heavenly position from the relationships of the Lord Jesus that are here brought before us. "Mission for God exists because worship of God doesn't." -John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad Introduction: Philadelphia had proved faithful and the reward for her fidelity was still more work to do for Christ. Remember how Mr. Bunyan pictures it. John 1:51; John 3:3; John 3:5; John 3:11). I rebuke and discipline all those whom I love. The Christian must live well and live in love because the judge is standing at the doors ( James 5:9). Elegchos ( G1650) is the corresponding noun, and Aristotle defines it: "Elegchos ( G1650) is the proof that a thing cannot be otherwise than we say." In due time the Romans came. The word of my patience The doctrine which has exposed you to so much trouble and persecution, and required so much patience and magnanimity to bear up under its attendant trials. We may first note that the key is the symbol of authority. We speak then of what Christ has put us in, not about nature and its wishes and feelings. However other Scriptures make it clear that God will catch up all Christians, faithful and unfaithful, at the same time (1 Corinthians 15:51-52; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 1 Thessalonians 5:9). Balderdash. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. Nobody cares a button about him. Oh that my words might call out some faithful ones in these evil days. This term refers to earth-dwellers as contrasted with heaven-dwellers, the unsaved as contrasted with Christians. According to Ezekiel the name of the re-created city of God was to be The Lord is there ( Ezekiel 48:35). Are you not just taking advantage of an earthly position to escape part of what Christ calls you to? Here, perhaps, all that is implied is, that the trial would be very extensive or general - so much so as to embrace the world, as the word was understood by those to whom the epistle was addressed. And so "to him that loveth us" (for this is the true rendering, and not merely that loved us) "To him that loveth us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood; and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be the glory and the might unto the ages of the ages." So says he "To the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come." In the ancient world there were at least six cities called Laodicea and this one was called Laodicea on the Lycus to distinguish it from the others. 2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. This is given up now. Is this Christ? Jesus Christ works through men; and the man who remains completely detached in his attitude to him has by that very fact refused to undertake the work which is the divine purpose for him. People may not be true to their principles, and often are not. The Lord help you to keep his word, and then to go in for public testimony. Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell on the earth. Thus, besides what the apostle had in his ordinary relation with Christians, and his already lengthened tenure in the service of Christ, he receives now a new character of word and testimony. I warrant you if you get faith into your soul, and the word becomes your joy and comfort, you will never let it go. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. I am sure Luther is one from whom we may all learn much; whose courage, faithfulness, self-renunciation, and endurance are edifying and instructive. Read full chapter. We never hear of angel as an official title in the ordinary arrangements of the New Testament. This marks particularly the change in the chapter, and especially in the part before us. ( Revelation 3:1-6 Continued). I know your works; I know that you have a reputation for life, but that you are dead. The church is dead. Let us first take the word rebuke. The promise of the Risen Christ is that the victor will sit with him in his own victorious throne. Besides He is "the beginning of the creation of God." we're increased with goods, we have need of nothing; you know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked ( Revelation 3:17 ): Interesting how the church observes itself and how Jesus observes the church. . Thus the Lord speaks with exceeding tenderness of those that were true to His name. "Therefore," he says, "watch!" God is beginning the end, the resolution of all things, the gathering together (resolution, summing up) of all things in one in Jesus ( Ephesians 1:10 ). This medical school was famous for two things throughout the world, ointment for the ear and ointment for the eyes. This meaning is particularly appropriate for Philadelphia. The royal apparel is for the man whom the king honours ( Esther 6:6-11). I cannot doubt that this letter contains an apt adumbration, as far as could be there in present facts, of what was found in mediaeval times. So, Jesus is here laying claim to that prophecy of the Messiah in Isaiah 22:22 . It is amazingly easy to go through a door when it is wide open, and it will be very easy to you much easier than you think, now that you have been schooled by God's Spirit into steadfastness of character, just to say in God's name, dependent upon God's strength, what he has taught you. That which is not in Holy Scripture is not to be received as matter of faith in the Christian church; but that which is there is to be received and held with that stern steadfastness, that incorruptible faith, which no more changes than the unchanging truth which it has grasped. Your book matters, let's make it your way! The A, B, Come and See Revelation A commentary on the Book of . The reason is that a remnant is now formed. Learn here, (1.) And are you not to walk as He? 1:19 + ). Therefore they appear as golden lampstands. "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shall shut; and shutteth, and no man shall open." The stated ground that follows is also to be weighed; for it is not, as men often assume, because we are to be in the predicted circumstances, it is not because the Christian or the church must pass through the troubles it describes: not a word to this effect is implied, but a different reason is given. If it was bright, the assembly would be elevated morally thereby. God does not leave those who have shown that they will not leave him. Revelation 3:10, KJV: Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Laodicea has the grim distinction of being the only Church of which the Risen Christ has nothing good to say. (i) He is the Amen. Do not be afraid. He takes notice and keeps account, how long he has preserved their spiritual liberties and privileges for them. Literally, it is the word of my endurance. 3:1-6 And to the angel of the Church in Sardis, write: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. It is, in fact, God's final punishment to leave a man alone. The words of the Risen Christ arise directly from the prosperity and the skill in which Laodicea took so much pride and which had in the minds of its citizens, and even of its Church, eliminated the need for God. If so, some people ought to be very good by this time, for they have had candid friends in plenty. He who is the first and the last, comprehending all in communicating His mind, which includes everything that can be given to man He it is who here speaks the Lord God, the Eternal. None the less is it "the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ," even if it consists not of that which ministers directly to the edification of the Christian in his own position, but indirectly as announcing the doom of such as despise God and do their own will in the face of His revelation. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. The deliberately-formed conviction that the word of God is the standard of our faith, and the unwavering habit of referring everything to it and standing and falling by it, may not deliver us from every error, but they will save us from that which is the nurse and matrix of every error that is, the habit of trusting to our own understanding, or relying upon the understandings of our fellow-men. The heavenly hope of being with Christ is promised as well as part in the kingdom. To the north of that plain rose the long ridge of Mount Tmolus; from that ridge a series of hills went out like spurs, each forming a narrow plateau. For instance, the standard for the Christian is not in anywise the law (which was so for the Jew); for us it is Christ Himself, and cannot without loss be anything else. 1. Daniel sees the "Ancient of days" in one way, and the Son of man in quite another. (ii) The one impossible attitude to Christianity is neutrality. "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore, despise not the chastening of the Almighty" ( Job 5:17). (2.) How are they even in this country? ( Luke 6:26). 149. If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons" ( Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 11:8). As we have so often seen, the Jews divided time into two ages, the present age which is wholly bad, and the age to come, which is wholly good with in between the terrible time of destruction when judgment will fall upon the world. Here we find Jezebel later. Deceived by Satan, they were his zealous instruments, so much the more actively deceiving others, because earnest and honest after the flesh. This hour of testing will involve the "whole world" (Gr. He who is faithful to the grace of God is often hidden from trials and difficulties which fall without mitigation on those who have been unfaithful in his covenant. It is true that neither of these new names lasted and "Philadelphia" was restored. The man is the agent that goes forward; the woman is the state of things that is produced. The faithful will share Christ's power at His coming, and be associated with Himself in His kingdom. The terrible thing about sin is that it can take the loveliest things and turn them into ugliness. If one identifies the Jerusalem of Isaiah with the New Jerusalem of the Revelation, or the Babylon of Jeremiah to explain the Apocalyptic Babylon, it is clear that one simply loses all the special instruction that God has given us. It is essentially a special case instead of the general one we have seen. He puts His voucher on the book from the beginning. Revelation 1:1-3 indicates the judgment of which this book is about, was to come soon, for the time is at hand. 159.] Chillingworth said what ought to be true, though I am afraid that it is not "The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants." It was given to a chosen witness no doubt really meant for the people, but delivered to Daniel, and only so. (ii) It is used as a comfort to the oppressed. These went on diligently, as we learn here. When he pleases, he shuts the door of opportunity and the door of utterance, and leaves obstinate sinners shut up in the hardness of their hearts; he shuts the door of church-fellowship against unbelievers and profane persons; and he shuts the door of heaven against the foolish virgins who have slept away their day of grace, and against the workers of iniquity, how vain and confident soever they may be. I know it from this fact that, as a general rule, the man that keeps God's word has an open door before him. Take no notice of anything I say if it cannot be supported by the word of divine truth. They who are faithful will share in that whiteness of light which is the garment of God himself. At the same time they fatally compromised Christ by alliance with the world, and there followed the practical return to the world out of which grace had taken the church in order to union with Christ in glory. The victor in life will share the throne of the victorious Christ. To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Seven hundred years before this letter was written Sardis had been one of the greatest cities in the world. I believe that God has blinded their eyes until the fullness of the gentiles has come in. 1. "I became dead (records John), and, behold, I am alive unto the ages of the ages." There is an evident allusion to the manner in which the Lord presented Himself to the church in Ephesus. (i) In the heathen world no worshipper was allowed to approach a temple of the gods with soiled clothes. He gave the Christians five promises instead. It is not a question of someone stealing their crown but of God taking it from them and giving it to someone else, because they were not worthy to wear it. The most vivid example of this kind of rebuke is the way in which Nathan opened David's eyes to his sin ( 2 Samuel 12:1-14). This favour consists in two things:--. He shall be seen by every soul if there be any difference to the sorest anguish above all of those that pierced Him ( i.e. If there were some far-spreading calamity in the country where they resided, it would probably be all that would be fairly embraced in the meaning of the word. And too many souls overall miss the wonder, inspiration, and comfort gained by those who would endeavor toward . The Lord then warns the angel at Sardis, that if he should not watch, He Himself will come on him as a thief, and he shall not know what hour Christ will come on him. The hour of temptation A time of sore and peculiar trial which might have proved too much for their strength. This was a pity; but as it was their misfortune and not their fault, they were not blamed for it. In the ancient world a king kept a register of his citizens. And then another part of the inscription is, [2.] God has a task for every man; but it may be that the man proves himself unfit for the task and it is given to another. As God bears testimony in his word to his own dear Son, believe that testimony; accept the Saviour whom he has given, and find immediate salvation: find it to-night. They did it under great disadvantages, but that only helped to increase the weight of praise measured out to them. 2. Why, these are the treasures of men, and they shall pass away. Christ is revealed now, not only in the all-discerning power of moral judgment, but also judicially prepared to act against evil "His feet like fine brass." This was the public state of things produced in the middle ages, and tolerated where the Lord was named. 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