revelation 3:10 commentary

Furthermore, the promise of Luke 21:17 is explanatory of what is meant here. Thus the Lord was no longer fighting in defence of His own people, nor was He employing the enemy's hatred and persecution to nip in the bud or prune evil excrescences. The ground of such a thought lies in the fact that the introduction to Sardis indicates the Lord beginning again a new state of things. This we have had already in the Pauline epistles, where the proper sphere of the Christian as a member of Christ's body is treated especially, and indeed only there. When this earthquake devastated it, Tiberius was as generous to Philadelphia as he had been to Sardis. The address is to the overcomer, who is accordingly put before the call to hear. The apostles were disappearing, and perhaps had all disappeared save John. The epistle is closed up with the demand of attention: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches, how Christ loves and values his faithful people, how he commends, and how he will crown their fidelity. It has been said that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" and eternal watchfulness is the price of salvation. It is the only view that can honestly say that Christ could return at any moment, because it alone teaches that Christ will come to rapture the church before the 70th week of Daniel 9 or the Tribulation period begins and that nothing else must happen before His return." The Lord no longer dealt so when this kind of footing vanished for the responsibility of man. Besides, God's word is a supporting thing, and he who quits it leaves his chief helper. God has promised all Christians deliverance from that outpouring of His wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:10). Warriors guard kings, and crowns, and thrones; but the living truth of the living God is infinitely more worthy of our watch. Does it mean what we commonly call an angelic being? We will speak upon the text to-night with a view to that, and we shall notice, first, that there is a word of praise: God praises this faithful messenger of the church. This means that in the district there were at least 7,500 male Jews. "This is the judge that ends the strife, When wit and reason fail. 3:7-13 And to the angel of the Church in Philadelphia, write: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no man will shut, and shuts and no man opens. The Church was the Israel of God ( Galatians 6:16). Their works weren't complete. We eat our way into the word of God, we live upon what we learn, tunnelling through the truth with receptive minds. He that overcomes should be clothed in white, for there were a few in Sardis who had not defiled their garments, and who should thus walk with Him in white; because they are worthy. Does it not strike you as being reasonable that, if God has spoken, his creatures ought to believe what he has spoken that after he has laid down the law there should remain no room for questioning? At night with a band of brave men he climbed the steep cliffs. Above all, if we have but little strength of any kind, let us keep God's word. It was specially connected with a tunic called the trimita, so much so, indeed, that it was sometimes called Trimitaria. They have the awful ignominy of Judaizing the church of God. 211-17; Thomas, Revelation 1-7, pp. The Sardians had forgotten their lesson. As the Christian sees it, the God of creation and the God of redemption are one and the same. (ii) He is he who has the seven stars. This phrase, as it stands in English, is ambiguous. Hold on to what you have, that no one may take your crown. Revelation 1 Commentary Summary: Read Revelation 1 KJV along with a helpful commentary. But says He who has eyes like a flame of fire, "I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give to each according to your works.". In A.D. 17 there came a great earthquake which destroyed Sardis and ten other cities. It is not at all however a question of a place of shelter, but of complete removal from the period that is filled by the great trouble or trial that will come upon the habitable world. I could not be in communion with a church whose chief guide and authority is another book than God's word, and whose acknowledged Head is other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Now we have the church of Philadelphia, the faithful remnant. Go ahead! It was precisely because He did that Daniel received so exceptional an honour. People will be willing to hear what you have to say, and, what is more, people will be converted by what you say, for God has set before you this open door, and no man can shut it. Thus we have all sorts of links in the chain. It means that their message was not confined to the people in the seven Churches nineteen hundred years ago, but that through them the Spirit is speaking to every man in every generation. It is remarkable that after the greatest persecutions, when Christendom and even Christians had been seduced into accepting the patronage of the world, up to that point there remained real faithfulness in refusing all efforts to deny the deity of Christ Under the same Constantine, who was the instrument of thus casting the world's shield over Christianity, was the battle fought and won against the Arian foe. People are always ready to part with that for which they have no esteem, and for this very reason many are quite willing to give up the Bible to critics and philosophers, those footpads and burglars of faith. When Paul was writing to the neighbouring Church of Colossae, he says sternly: "Say to Archippus, See that you fulfil the ministry which you have received in the Lord" ( Colossians 4:17). But it was not as a garrison town that Philadelphia was founded, for there was little danger there. There was failure in this respect. Three centuries before, Philadelphia had been given an open door to spread Greek ideas in the lands beyond; and now there has come to it another great missionary opportunity, to carry to men who never knew it the message of the love of Jesus Christ. Revelation 3:3 So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. The Lord simply takes notice of these in His call. We will get the picture right if we remember that the eastern throne was more like a couch than a single seat. And then, thirdly, we shall speak upon a word of promise which is in the text in the tenth verse: "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." 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. This church is commended: Thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name,Revelation 3:8; Revelation 3:8. 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. Isaiah 43:2-4; John 10:27-28; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Hebrews 6:18-19). Abraham, said the Jewish Rabbis, was the pillar of the world. Both Puritan Dispensationalists and Partial Rapturists agree that in order to be raptured, one must be faithful. (i) Watchfulness should be the constant attitude of the Christian life. Thus the creed commonly called Nicene, which had for its object the assertion of Christ's consubstantial deity, was published at this same time. Now, dear friend, perhaps hitherto you have been perfectly satisfied with holding the truth with all your might, and being faithful to it in private and in your own daily life. The way and manner in which he performs these acts, and that is absolute sovereignty, independent upon the will of men, and irresistible by the power of men: He openeth, and no man shutteth; he shutteth, and no man openeth; he works to will and to do, and, when he works, none can hinder. Flaccus, the governor of the province, became alarmed at the amount of currency which the Jews were exporting in payment of the Temple tax which every male Jew paid and put an embargo on the export of currency. [3.] The only exception is in Thyatira, where He is described as the Son of God; and, as already remarked, Thyatira is exactly transitional. (i) They will be clothed with white raiment. First I would remind you that our text has in it A WORD OF PRAISE. The emphasis of his pulpit ministry is the careful study and verse-by-verse exposition of the Bible, with special attention devoted to the historical and grammatical background behind each passage. The star, as we are told here, so far acted upon the church for good. Life was lived in an atmosphere of insecurity. 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." "I have not found thy works perfect before my God. When the Lord is seen in the vision of chapter 1, these are not the ways in which He is described at all "He that hath the key of David.". 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. This Philadelphian church had won the commendation, "Thou hast kept my word." Jesus himself tells of the wicked servant, who took advantage of his master's absence to conduct himself evilly and to whom the master made a sudden return that brought judgment. This is all the more likely because it was common at baptism to clothe a man, after he had emerged from the water, in clean white robes, symbolic of the cleansing of his life. Even in the gospel, which is so fragrant with His divine love, we have the frequent not to say constant admonition of this remarkable position which Christ takes. It is not simply clericalism now, nor persons holding the doctrine of Balaam; but a formal state of things, as the symbol of a woman regularly represents. "He that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand." Sardis, The Imperatives Of The Risen Lord ( Revelation 3:1-6 Continued). It is no small privilege so to be taught of the Holy Ghost as to have a taste for the gospel, a deep attachment to the truths of the covenant. The white robes may stand for the fact that the faithful will be guests at the banquet of God. The word for beginning is arche ( G746) . (i) Sin is the death of the will. The warden of Angola prison, Burl Cain, also a believer in Jesus, took the hand of Antonio James and said, 'Antonio, the chariot is here; get ready for the ride. They have lost the sense of Christ's peace left with them They have not the joy of His coming for them in perfect love, to receive to Himself those whom He loves. What Christ promised is safety through trials, not exemption from trials. You may have but little strength, but do you keep God's word? The Book is our ultimatum. This term refers to earth-dwellers as contrasted with heaven-dwellers, the unsaved as contrasted with Christians. Still that strength is a matter of degrees and certain churches have a little strength but only a little. But this is here restricted: it does not mean the truth in general, nor the gospel in particular, though we cannot doubt that John did preach the gospel, and did nourish the church of God in all His revealed truth; but this is not the subject of the Apocalypse, nor the meaning of our text. There is a divine link in the sense as there was in the Spirit's mind an undistinguished reference; but then the Apocalypse gives it an incomparably larger range, and a more profound character. This chapter completes the record of "the things which are" ( Rev. In this there seems to be couched a gentle reproof: "Thou hast a little strength, a little grace, which, though it be not proportionate to the wide door of opportunity which I have opened to thee, yet is true grace, and has kept thee faithful." A particular assembly, or even the assemblies of a district (Galatians 1:1-24), may be addressed. All eye-salves in the ancient world caused the eyes to smart at their first application, and Laodicea had no wish to see itself as it was. (v) The Christian must be on the watch against false teaching. This was the public state of things produced in the middle ages, and tolerated where the Lord was named. When he came back to Antioch he told how God had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles ( Acts 14:27). Victory lies before you. There is an immense change in turning to the last three churches. Nevertheless, they will be aware of the next event including the end of the horrible counter attack represented by the sixth trumpet of Revelation 9:13-21 and 11:7-13 that corresponds to Daniel 11:40-43. If a doctrine be of God, if it has come out of the loving lips of the Lord Jesus, hold it fast, as for dear life. Sardis was a city of degeneration. to be of no esteem in the world? Laodicea, The Christ Who Knocks ( Revelation 3:14-22 Continued). 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. The sheep which grazed round Laodicea were famous for their soft, violet-black, glossy wool. (ii) The one impossible attitude to Christianity is neutrality. Sardis gives the rise of the new state of things, not strictly ecclesiastical the Lord acting in the way of testimony, and not so much in ecclesiastical order. "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right land, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden lampstands." Such is Protestantism. Revelation 3:10 Context. There the Holy Ghost was the only one competent to minister and effectuate such grace according to the counsels of God, and in the ordering of His love. He will be as much marked by power in the day of glory, as by contented weakness in the present scene of grace. In other words, will only faithful or watchful Christians experience the Rapture (the partial rapture position)? 149. The following example shows the process from tribulation to patience: He did not expect great things from them. Sin is the killer of life's loveliness. Its purpose is to demonstrate the quality of those who "dwell upon the earth." In the gospel John may speak, but he speaks as one who had seen the Lord, as one who could bear his own personal voucher for whatever he utters. 7 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 shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 8 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. Some would get a few copies of the New Testament, and go about and sell them in their baskets; and so they kept the truth. palliated most by those who owe their professional status to this frightfully corrupt and corrupting influence. Thus grace is always equal to every difficulty. This too is special. The man who will not submit to Christ has necessarily resisted him. "Withhold not correction from the child; for, if you beat him with a rod he will not die. cit., p. 101. (ii) He is the witness on whom we can rely and who is true. So now He is warning concerning His coming for the church. PHILADELPHIA--The church with opportunity. Enoch walked with God on earth and continued to walk with him in the heavenly places. 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 is the crushed grape, and not the untouched, from which the costly liquor distils." Clericalism came in rapidly after this. Laodicea, The Wealth That Is Poverty ( Revelation 3:14-22 Continued). The implication may appear to be that if a Christian denies Christ (Revelation 3:8) he or she will not participate in the Rapture. The subject-matter of this epistle, where. Verse Revelation 3:10. (4.) It is essentially a special case instead of the general one we have seen. 288, 289. This has ever been the chief snare, as it is now. Sometimes the trial is more general and universal; it comes upon all the world, and, when it is so general, it is usually the shorter. Here is your anchorage. While, therefore, he had all that is properly Christian, he also had very special communications of another character for saints who will follow us at the end of this age. Trench makes a list of people in the Bible who lost their place to someone else because they had shown that they were not fit to hold it. If you only help to strengthen one solitary Christian woman, who knows what may come to pass by her means? These went on diligently, as we learn here. All was the fruit, doubtless, of what had been works before, but in far greater maturity now. The stars stand for the Churches and their angels. I am supposing now a scale which attracts the world's attention. I will also keep thee from the hour of trial Norris' Commentary on the Book of Revelation, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. It was not merely the tendency of individuals. We can see now why it was. The common text which gives rise to the current versions spoils the sense completely. (iii) We see human responsibility. In the pagan world devotees of certain gods often wrote the name of their god on their forehead (cf. The real innovators were those who departed by slip or by will from the very words of the Spirit; and the arbitrariness now would be in maintaining what has not sufficient authority, against that which is as certain as can be. Mere orthodoxy does not suffice, but His person, though absent, and the glory due to Him. If all men that live or ever shall live should throw up the old Calvinism, there remains one that will hold it, for this reason that he could not hold any other. There was akratisma, breakfast, which was no more than a piece of dried bread dipped in wine. (b) In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do. We will enter into the third section, the things which will be after these things of the church. 2. This is exactly Laodiceanism. She receives no word of blame. Laodicea, The Claims Of Christ ( Revelation 3:14-22 Continued). They may express either the reason why the door stands open before the Christians of Philadelphia or the reason why they will be given those who belong to the synagogue of Satan. They who are faithful will share in that whiteness of light which is the garment of God himself. "Watch, therefore," said Jesus, "for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming." The tragedy of Laodicea was that it was convinced of its own wealth and blind to its own poverty. What said the Lord? A Church with a positive message is bound to be one to which there will be opposition. I believe that that open door will be open to us until the Lord comes. 101.] These terrible days in Philadelphia were never wholly forgotten, and people in it ever waited subconsciously for the ominous tremors of the ground, ready to flee for their lives to the open spaces. 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. 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. Whoever that might be (one, or perhaps more,) was meant by the angel. He asks the Colossians to pray that a door of utterance may be opened for him ( Colossians 4:3). "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest on my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. 102. It is not what I think; it is not what some greater man may think; it is not what may be the consensus of all the enlightened minds of the period; the decision lies with what the Lord has spoken. Sardis, The Faithful Few ( Revelation 3:1-6 Continued). They had abated in their first love. But how are we to describe or understand "the word of God"? We may safely strike out the word "and," if we respect the best authorities. Of all things indifference is the hardest to combat. Take no notice of anything I say if it cannot be supported by the word of divine truth. ( Luke 6:26). In a very different form it is the topic of John everywhere: we may trace Him as going up to heaven, where Paul above all contemplated Him glorified; but John's task is ever to point to Christ in connection with what He was here below. (2.) Whenever we are off our watch, we lose ground. In the New Testament men used the idea of the Coming of Christ as a warning to the heedless and as a comfort to the oppressed. Particular care is taken here to show it to us. On this monumental pillar there shall be an honourable inscription, as in those cases is usual. It was, therefore, now true that all the promises which had been made to Israel had been inherited by the Church. (ii) It was a great centre of clothing manufacture. 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. Hot is zestos ( G2200) ; and it means hot to boiling point. We are soon going to be entering into the Lent season which was borrowed from the Babylonian system. How stand the facts? I don't see a super church, or super saints. Philadelphia, Many Promises ( Revelation 3:7-13 Continued). The Protestant reads the Bible more at liberty, which is a real good and precious boon; but for this very reason, the Protestant incurs no light responsibility. Nevertheless, having become a man in divine grace, He speaks according to that lowly position which He entered here. You have a little strength.We are not very strong. "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." Revelation 2:1-29. The Lord at the close gives a promise suited to the condition. The beginning of the third chapter introduces the protestant state of things. But habitually God's messengers were sent to Israel, even when prophets were raised up. Revelation 10:1 I saw (1) another strong angel coming down out of heaven, (2) clothed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire; 1. Not only is the same principle general or constant, but it is remarkably characteristic of John's own writings. (ii) He is he who is true. 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 . I trust that many of us can say that the doctrines of grace are our jewels, our estate, yes, our very life. It was to her that one day all men would humbly make their submission. The phrase is the strongest possible way of putting the matter. It is quite true that, in the literal sense, Jesus Christ did not come back to those who were so warned and exhorted. When a man begins his Christian life in a kind of dubious, half-hearted way, his friends do not know whether he is really going to carry it out or not: at any rate, as he endeavours to avoid all persecution, they do not know what to think of him, and they feel encouraged to treat him as one who can be pressed and squeezed at pleasure. Joab and Abiathar lost their places to Benaiah and Zadok ( 1 Kings 2:25). This figures prominently in the theories of millennialists, who take the passage as emphasizing that Christians shall be delivered from not through the great trial, "implying the rapture of the church before the time referred to as "the great tribulation. It has been said that Sardis stood like some gigantic watch-tower, guarding the Hermus valley. What does this mean? Revelation 3:10-11 New King James Version 10 Because you have kept [ a]My command to persevere,I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come uponthe whole world, to test those who dwellon the earth. It is crucial to distinguish between the tribulations believers endure in faith and the wrath of God that falls on an unbelieving world. On one of these spurs, fifteen hundred feet up, stood the original Sardis. What is still more in John the significant point, they lost all the truth of a real life given to us in Christ. You might as well establish another religion on Mother Goose rhymes or something, or Aesops Fables. The motives, taken from the speedy appearance of Christ: "Behold, I come quickly. It was literally astride the great road to the east which went straight through Laodicea, entering by the Ephesian Gate and leaving by the Syrian Gate. 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. "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). (1a) The character of the city of Sardis. So we come to the end of the second section of the book of Revelation, the things which are. "Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain. THE LETTER TO PHILADELPHIA ( Revelation 3:7-13 ). Beasley-Murray regarded the hour of testing as a designation of the trial itself rather than as a period of testing (cf. There is no value in all the brass counters which circulate among the many; they are current with the world, but the Kingdom of God does not know them. If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol" ( Proverbs 23:13-14). In short, "the hour of temptation" is, I conceive, a larger term altogether than the "great tribulation" ofRevelation 7:1-17; Revelation 7:1-17, and still more than the unparalleled tribulation which is to befall the land of Israel. 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