revelation 3:10 commentary

As long as true apostles were on earth, Satan was never able to have Judaism recognized in the church of God. Its importance was due entirely to its position. 2. The ancient ecclesiastical or catholic phase of the church terminates with Thyatira: nevertheless Thyatira in this has the peculiar trait that it is the close of the public state of the church, and the beginning of those conditions which go on till the Lord's coming. But in the meantime I share the truth of God with those that accept, with those that believe. This was that in the new age, all nations would do humble homage to the Jews. In certain cases we know that it might be a literal representative; for instance, when John the Baptist sends some of his disciples, there was a representation of his mind by men. It is rather an imminent event that will come suddenly and unexpectedly (Walvoord). Is it supposed that we shall cheer him on to do better by always finding fault with him? The Book is our ultimatum. For it is somewhat novel, especially in the New Testament. The Laodicean picture is, in my judgment, the result of dislike and contempt for the testimony that the Lord had previously raised up. It is a false principle therefore that we can only be profited by that which concerns ourselves, and supposes us to be in the actual circumstances described. Sardis, The Faithful Few ( Revelation 3:1-6 Continued). There is an immense change in turning to the last three churches. 54. But for all that the voice of the Christian is at once heard and so much the more remarkably, because it is one of the few exceptional ripples which cross the ordinary current of the book at the end as well as at the beginning. To those who have kept his word, Christ promises, I will keep you from the coming hour of trial, which will put those who dwell on the earth to the test. The names of Paul's fellow-labourers for God are written in the book of life ( Php_4:3 ). The holy pilgrims were not so rude as to tell him to go; they only talked about heavenly things, which he did not understand, and he went of his own accord. "I know thy works: behold I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. I hold one single sentence out of God's word to be of more certainty, and of more power, than all the discoveries of all the learned men of all the ages. Furthermore, the promise of Luke 21:17 is explanatory of what is meant here. There shall come a day when it will be found that the minorities have generally saved both the world and the church. Believe it when circumstances seem to make it questionable; believe it when your own heart fails you; believe it when your sin and corruption rise within you like a fountain of foul waters: thus shall you give glory to the God of truth. 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. ], Fifth, Jesus Christ will identify with His faithful people. Revelation 3:10 by Grant Richison| Nov 17, 1998| Revelation| 43 comments Read Introduction to Revelation "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth." Jesus now turns to a promise for those who persevereunder trial. It was founded for a special purpose. Solomon made shields of gold, which were borne before the king when he went into the house of the Lord; but Rehoboam took away the shields of gold, and put shields of brass in their place. These went on diligently, as we learn here. "This can hardly be His return to earth described in Revelation 19:11-21, because this phase of His coming will be preceded by all the events described in chapters 6-18. He seems to say, "Dear child, since you will not go beyond my written word, you shall not be tempted to go beyond it. Those who keep God's word, shall themselves be kept from temptation. I hope for that day. Tzamalikos, P. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/CBO9781139208758, pages 120-120, 2013. . (iii) We see human responsibility. Philadelphia had proved faithful and the reward for her fidelity was still more work to do for Christ. 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. We grow very vexed if anybody denies them; but if there is no controversy over them we forget them. This is given up now. 1. (i) He is the Amen. We will take you to heaven next Sunday night.Oh God, give us ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. In order to make this more realised by the believers then or at any other time, be it remarked that we have another word remarkably annexed which lies altogether out of the beaten path of the Lord. But the Lord will compel the recognition of His own testimony. What a full exemption! Explore high-quality books by self-published authors. What can be wider than to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of God? This promise recurs again and again in Isaiah. "What thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. Humanly speaking, anyone would say that there was not a more prosperous town in Asia Minor. He who is not written in the book of life is cast into the lake of fire ( Revelation 20:15); only they who are written in the Lamb's book of life shall enter into blessedness ( Revelation 21:27). Is not this the revival of that dreadful scourge that had afflicted the early church (even Smyrna)? The Lord at the close gives a promise suited to the condition. He says, "I know thy works"; and though you may be one of little influence and little ability, yet he is pleased with you because you are pleased with his word. But He says that He became dead. The origin of the passage is much more likely to be in Solomon's Song when the lover stands at the door of his beloved and pleads with her to open. There "a strong angel" is associated with the large scroll. 6:10). Faith sees that the blessed One, the holy and the true, is the same that has the key of David. The Lord has revived the true hope of His return; there are those who are thus waiting for Christ, and this epistle seems emphatically to apply to such. We all know of what small account He was on earth; and so it is with Philadelphia. "And he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.". The Risen Christ bids the Philadelphians hold to what they have, that no one may take their crown ( Revelation 3:11). I do not think that we should be so slow as we sometimes are in praising one another. 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." God's thoughts are as high above ours as the heavens are above the earth; dare we drag them down and sit in judgment on them? It set out along the valley of the River Maeander until it reached what were known as the Gates of Phrygia. [Note: For a study of the references to the temple in Revelation from a Reformed perspective, see Simon J. Kistemaker, "The Temple in the Apocalypse," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 43:3 (September 2000):433-41. God freely acknowledges that life today is full of mysteries; but it will not always be so. Those men of old time whose influence upon their own age seemed so little, nevertheless prepared the way for those braver spirits who, by-and-by, shone forth like the stars of the morning. But habitually God's messengers were sent to Israel, even when prophets were raised up. Daniel is clothed in purple by Belshazzar ( Daniel 5:29). (b) There may be a reference to the old story of Enoch. There is no surer way of allowing a child to end in ruin than to allow him to do as he likes. "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy" (Rev 19:10) and a prophetic perspective promotes purpose. 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. Many a time men act as if the Church belonged to them, but it belongs to Jesus Christ and all in it are his servants. (c) He must have the ability to tell what he has to say, so that his witness may make its true impression on those who hear. To get at the armies of Cyrus he had to cross the River Halys. He did not like spiritual conversation, neither do any of the breed. Then follows the last of these four churches. This of course connects His present existence with the future as well as the past. 3:10 + is correct [that the church will be guarded and preserved during God's testing of earth-dwellers during the Tribulation], then one is left with the colossal problem of reconciling the fact that multitudes of believers will die under the fierce persecution of Antichrist during the Tribulation and yet God supposedly will preserve His people physically through the Tribulation."Keith H. Essex, "The Rapture and the Book of Revelation," in . This at the same time goes on down to the end, and brings in the Lord's coming; for, it will be observed, the coming of the Lord is not introduced in any of the first three, but from Thyatira it is, because the condition intended goes on to the coming of the Lord. Revelation 3:9 Commentaries: Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie-- I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you. 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. This is not at all the way in which His coming is spoken of for His own. "He that denies me before men," Jesus said, "I will deny before my Father, but if you confess Me before men, I will confess you before my Father which is in heaven." Christ is to be acknowledged as the author of all the liberty and opportunity his churches enjoy. Before they begin the Christian is heard, as also the bride after they close. 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. I am afraid that there are great truths in God's word which we do not intelligently believe, but take for granted. In the descriptions of the second chapter what was said about the Lord is a repetition of what was found in the vision John had just seen. Sardis, Past Splendour And Present Decay ( Revelation 3:1-6 Continued). Second, God promised the Christians in this church that they would not go through the Tribulation period (Revelation 6-19). You will sing as we did just now, and as I sang very heartily, "Let all the forms that men devise Assault my soul with treacherous art I'll call them vanity and lies, And bind the gospel to my heart.". They were not ashamed of revealed truth, but, on the contrary, they took it for their possession, their heritage, their treasure, their all. I do not in the least doubt that God proves Himself faithful in the worst of times. Did He not look with exceeding satisfaction in His grace upon that servant who felt and answered to His own feelings about His people? If so, they will receive a reward for it, according to the grace of God. Oh for ten thousand valiant men to stand about the bed of the truth, each man with his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. And so the day will come when they will acknowledge that Jesus is the Messiah and I pray and long for that day. On the other hand Christ said in view of the sufferer, "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days." John 12:27). This favour consists in two things:--. Tacitus writes: "One of the most famous cities of Asia, Laodicea, was in that same year overthrown by an earthquake and without any relief from us recovered itself by its own resources" (Tacitus: Annals 14: 27). It is the fulness of the Holy Ghost's energy as an overruling power. The promise to the overcomers that they would go no more out refers to their fixed position as pillars in the temple; and with the two massive pillars in Solomons temple in view, saying that overcoming Christians will be placed in the position of pillars in the temple is the same as saying that these Christians will occupy sure, secure, firmly established positions of strength and power, positions which will be realized when they rule and reign as co-heirs with Christ in the [millennial] kingdom." God help you to keep to it. Jesus doesn't care. They are waiting for Him expectantly without such an idea as His thief-like surprise. There is a very lovely thing about the way this is put. (v) On the faithful Christian Christ will write his own new name. He must, therefore, be ever on the watch. There is the desire to be great, to be esteemed of men, "rich, and increased in goods, and in need of nothing." And are you not to walk as He? Secondly, Christ can discover this his favour to his people in such a manner that their very enemies shall see it, and be forced to acknowledge it. It became a Roman assize town. Sardis was a city of degeneration. Not the common text, but this is the true order. Before you, my brother, the Lord God has set an open door. Oh that my words might call out some faithful ones in these evil days. This phrase says to every one of us: "All these things are meant for you.". (a) There is a door of missionary opportunity before every man and he need not go overseas to find it. tachy, soon; cf. And I will kill her children with death." I dare say that some of us remember when people used to fly to Canada in order to escape "the great tribulation" which they expected to fall on the empire of the beast. The following example shows the process from tribulation to patience: "Let us keep awake and be sober" ( 1 Thessalonians 5:6). Now one part of the city was in ruins, now another. He is not under law but under grace. Surely love can go no further than that. It is for discipline that you have to endure. He shall be a monumental pillar in the temple of God; not a pillar to support the temple (heaven needs no such props), but a monument of the free and powerful grace of God, a monument that shall never be defaced nor removed, as many stately pillars erected in honour to the Roman emperors and generals have been. Go out of the place saying, "I believe it." The call to hear begins to follow the promise, instead of being before it. Is this wise? Revelation 3:10 - Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. "I know thy works, and thy labour, and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil [men]; and thou didst try them which say they are apostles and are not, and didst find them liars." I might have seen the Alexandrian library burned without losing a night's rest, for the mass of its contents must have been mere rubbish; but were there one single verse of the New Testament which it were possible to blot out from human memory and record, one might be willing to lay down his life to save the glorious sentence. (d) It has been suggested that the white robes stand for the resurrection bodies which the faithful will some day wear. Each of the triumphant believers will be like a pillar in Gods temple, secure in his presence for ever. Here we have for the first time the formal recognition of saints not included in the public state of the assembly, yet not so openly separate as was found at a later day. He can tell of God, because he came from him. To try them that dwell upon the earth - To test their character. ], "When Solomon built the temple following his ascension to the throne, he had a worker of brass from Tyre construct two massive pillars for the porch. First, it supplies us with an example. This we find formally and doctrinally in his gospel. The Christian does not believe in an inescapable fate; but he does believe in a destiny which he can accept or refuse. The result was that twenty pounds weight of gold was seized as contraband in Laodicea and one hundred pounds in Apameia in Phrygia. Yet Smyrna was poor and Philadelphia was small. Philadelphia, The Open Door ( Revelation 3:7-13 Continued). Here. That can happen with the tasks of God. And all of the enemies of God we are just going to subdue when we are manifested finally as the sons of God before the world. Not that the full church or Christian relationship was lacking to John personally; but he stands here a representative man for others as well as ourselves. 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. They hoarded up divine knowledge in their memories, preserved it in their affections, used it in their experience, and practised it in their lives. If you have nothing but nature, it would be intelligible; but if you have seen the Son of God and believed in Him, if by grace you have the same life which was in Him, so that this thing is true of Him and of you, no possible standard can suit for you as a Christian short of Christ Himself. You will bring many to Christ, because you yourself abide in Christ. By his teaching we are not only nineteen centuries behind the present age, but we come in at the back of all the ages of human history. They have been firm and steadfast in their confession of the faith once delivered unto the saints, and the Lord who gave them the grace to be so will give them yet more grace as the recompense of their fidelity. It cannot buy happiness nor give a man health either of body or of mind; it cannot bring comfort in sorrow nor fellowship in loneliness. Faith is the Koh-i-noor among jewels, the queen of the virtues. The new name of Christ, the Mediator, the Redeemer, the captain of our salvation; by this it will appear under whose banner this conquering believer had enlisted, under whose conduct he acted, by whose example he was encouraged, and under whose influence he fought the good fight, and came off victorious. It was on the edge of a great plain called the Katakekaumene ( G2618) , which means the Burned Land. It is "the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him." what said those who preferred "great tribulation," rather than commit adultery with her? Here again we have a present imperative indicating continuous action. "I am the Alpha and Omega, saith the Lord God, that is, and that was, and that is to come, the Almighty." "He that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations." We just went through one, the celebration of Christmas on December 25th. Applying this to the present time, and our own circumstances, is it not most grave? Balderdash. In Paul's last address to the elders of Ephesus he warns them that grievous wolves will invade the flock from outside and from inside men will arise to speak perverse things. We never hear of angel as an official title in the ordinary arrangements of the New Testament. The hour needs its man quite as much as the man needs the hour. At the same time another way of looking at the book is by taking "the things that are" as already past and gone. 453-55. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief." (i) It individualizes the message of the letters. 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. It was not as once. (ii) The Church at Sardis was untroubled by any attack from the outside, neither by the heathen or by the Jews. The common text which gives rise to the current versions spoils the sense completely. I may be a fool, and an old-fashioned bigot, but I am not a turncoat, and I cannot quit the word of the Lord. Often hot mineral springs are nauseating in their taste and make the person who drinks them want to be physically sick. They appreciated it: they fed upon it. We can hardly suppose that this name was given to it after it received the Christian religion, and that it was so called from that Christian affection that all believers have, and should have, one for another, as the children of one Father and the brethren of Christ; but rather that it was its ancient name, on account of the love and kindness which the citizens had and showed to each other as a civil fraternity. Remember also that it is so much to the increase of brotherly love to have a clear eye to see the imperfections of our friends. recurring minor shocks drive them to sheer panic. Laodicea, The Claims Of Christ ( Revelation 3:14-22 Continued). It must be evident to a spiritual mind how remarkably suited all here is to what was afterwards about to come out. He did not expect great things from them. Esau lost his place to Jacob ( Genesis 25:34; Genesis 27:36). (iv) Repeatedly the New Testament urges the Christian to be on the watch for the coming of his Lord. I should not wonder that the kindly words of God's people may be but a rehearsal of that "Well done, good and faithful servant" which will one day sound in their ears; and be a useful rehearsal, too, helping them on their weary way. So much, then, with regard to this word of praise. "Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone" ( Hosea 4:17). "[51] From Matthew 24, etc., all should be familiar with this quality in prophecies regarding such events. It has been said that Sardis stood like some gigantic watch-tower, guarding the Hermus valley. Sin is the killer of life's loveliness. 102. It [ Rev 3:10] is a promise, not to all the church, but to a certain clearly-defined portion of itthose who keep the doctrine of Christ's second advent, and its hope of rapture. Revelation 2:17; Revelation 14:1; Revelation 19:12). "The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours, they shall follow yon; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you" ( Isaiah 45:14). "Write therefore [which is undoubtedly genuine] the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and what shall be hereafter." To those who have been faithful comes the threefold promise. There was no guard and once again Sardis fell because it was not upon the watch. For the heathen this was an external thing; but this may describe the man who has kept his soul clean so that he can enter into the presence of God and not be ashamed. The state of the church in Ephesus has the same generality. "And to the angel of the church in Pergamos" comes a very different message. Laodicea was so conscious of its medical skill in the care of the eyes that it never realized that it was spiritually blind. If you have little talent, it is a pity you have not more; but still it is for your praise if you quit yourselves like men, and stand fast in the faith. He therefore "sent and signified this by his angel unto his servant John." Secondly, he gives him a word of prospect. The persecutions in the Roman empire would furnish abundant occasions for such a trial. Reuben, unstable as water, lost his place to Judah ( Genesis 49:4; Genesis 49:8). That in itself would have been enough to make Laodicea one of the great commercial and strategic centres of the ancient world. Revelation 3:13) in a position of safety presupposes that they will have been removed to another location (i.e., heaven) at the periods beginning. Bible > Commentaries > Revelation 3:9 Library Free Downloads eBibles Revelation 3:9 What exactly is meant by "the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ" in this connection? 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