(i) He is the Amen. Show yourself watchful, and strengthen what remains and what is going to die. The Laodicean picture is, in my judgment, the result of dislike and contempt for the testimony that the Lord had previously raised up. We need not make a choice between these various meanings; we may well believe that they are all included in the greatness of the promise. In the ancient world a king kept a register of his citizens. John 8:31-59). We have met with instances where they wrote out part of the word of God, and hid it away in a wall; and afterwards, when the wall was pulled down, the priceless record was discovered and used. Why, these are the treasures of men, and they shall pass away. 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. Often these attacks are subtle. There is another warning here. You might as well establish another religion on Mother Goose rhymes or something, or Aesops Fables. I am inclined to think that the hour of trial embraces the whole Apocalyptic period; that is, not merely the awful time when Satan in a rage is expelled from on high, and when the beast, energised by him, rises to his full head of power, but the previous period of trouble, seduction, and judgment. 6:10). Christian chivalry should make you feel it better to be a member of a church of six doing the Lord's work conscientiously than to be a member of a church of six millions which has turned aside from it. ], Gundry believed that God will fulfill the promise of this verse at the Rapture, but he believed the Rapture will occur at the end of the Tribulation (the posttribulation view). (ii) He is the witness on whom we can rely and who is true. All must be and was measured according to God's own mind, and the place in which He set the assemblies. ], Fourth, God promised that He will not just honor overcomers by erecting a pillar in their name in heaven, as was the custom in Philadelphia. Explore high-quality books by self-published authors. But what He is in heaven is exactly what is not given here. Oh, that they would cease to display their own thought, their own cleverness, and individuality. Had they not left their first love? Remember how Mr. Bunyan pictures it. 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. And it was then that he uttered his famous saying to Croesus: "Call no man happy until he is dead." This is a message to the angel of the church at Philadelphia, and it is full of instruction to churches and ministers at this present time "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Is it any special part, or the word of God as a whole? He is God. "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). Those who keep God's word, shall themselves be kept from temptation. Nothing can be simpler. never to be marked by anything that men can wonder at or admire? 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. 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. I will give to him who overcomes to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and took my seat with my Father in his throne. In due time the Romans came. And that isn't to say that God doesn't call people as He did to the Jews, but He has not called me. (ii) The Church at Sardis was untroubled by any attack from the outside, neither by the heathen or by the Jews. ( Rev. Here we are evidently on broad ground. Good men have many conflicts, let us minister to their comfort. 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. John then, as it is said, "testified the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ." It is not merely that He died this is not what He says here, though it is said elsewhere, and very truly. The common text which gives rise to the current versions spoils the sense completely. It is not now to bring them whether or not servants out of that position or even worse, and entitling them to take the place of children of God. The Book is our ultimatum. A bee knows the nearest way. On this monumental pillar there shall be an honourable inscription, as in those cases is usual. Truth does not die through being buried. It is only by the grace of God that we can escape the death of sin. Here again we have a present imperative indicating continuous action. Another strong angel = sends us back to Revelation 5:2. The Sardians had forgotten their lesson. The rock on which Sardis was built was friable, more like close packed dried mud than rock. you have kept the word . The unique new fact that Christianity brought into this world is that God is the seeker of men. Remember, then, how you received and heard the gospel, and keep it, and repent. We Jews are not supposed to go into the house of a Gentile, but the Lord told me to come so that is why I am here." The white robes may stand for the fact that the faithful will be guests at the banquet of God. These foes claimed to be the true followers of God, but they were not, having rejected Jesus Christ (cf. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend" ( Proverbs 27:6). Did He thus walk? Those who are holding to the Word of God. (a) They had received and heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. If therefore we look at the abstract nature of the angel of the church, what is implied by the term? 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 . Nevertheless, having become a man in divine grace, He speaks according to that lowly position which He entered here. [Note: Beasley-Murray, p. 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. We need pillars in the house of our God. But here we have visions visions of God's judicial ways visions of what would call for judgment in the ever growing iniquity of man. Philadelphia, The Open Door ( Revelation 3:7-13 Continued). The church in Ephesus tried these pretended apostles, specially the angel, as one that helped them much by grace from the Lord. I know your works; I know that you have a reputation for life, but that you are dead. "Pretrib Rapture" - Revelation 3:10. It is the second meaning which is intended here. 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. Now, dear child of God, as I have said before, you may have but very little strength, you may often be tempted and tried, and cast down; but if you believe the word, there is more for the pleasing of God in a childlike faith than there is in the most glittering profession or in the most showy deeds. 1-888-672-6657. It is the present imperative and means: "Keep on remembering; never allow yourself to forget." the Roman Empire (Luke 2:1; Acts 11:28). 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. 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. They had here relaxed, but not in their works. I want to suggest to you that if you have done this for some time the era has now arrived when you may go forward to somewhat more. Indeed, there is nothing more remarkable, especially when we bear in mind who the writer is, than the absence here of His proper relationship to the children of God. Sardis, The Threefold Promise ( Revelation 3:1-6 Continued). 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. That can happen with the tasks of God. The coming wrath of God is described in detail throughout chaps 6-19, and features the unleashing of divine wrath in judgments as expressed in the seals, trumpet, and bowls. Thus then it is with the seven golden lampstands. I am far from saying this because I do not feel for them much. We say, "Yes, yes; these doctrines are in the Creed;" and we put them up on the top shelf, and by that very act we lay them aside and do not heartily believe in them for ourselves. Those enemies are described to be such as said they were Jews, but lied in saying so--pretended to be the only and peculiar people of God, but were really the synagogue of Satan. It is blessedly true that even out of failure a man can redeem himself--but only if he casts himself upon the grace of Jesus Christ. (iv) Apart from all these things, for any man the door of prayer is always open. The sides of the ridge were smoothly precipitous; and only where the spur met the ridge of Mount Tmolus was there any possible approach into Sardis and even that was hard and steep. If so, some people ought to be very good by this time, for they have had candid friends in plenty. He ordered them to teach their sons lyre-playing, the song and the dance, and retail trading. Peter and James and John were the pillars of the early church in Jerusalem ( Galatians 2:9). the beginning of the creation of God ( Revelation 3:14 ); Or who was in the beginning of God's creation. "He is the faithful witness, the first-begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth;" the last displayed when He comes from heaven to earth, as He stands in resurrection the first-begotten of the dead. "Mission for God exists because worship of God doesn't." -John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad Introduction: The persecutions in the Roman empire would furnish abundant occasions for such a trial. Philadelphia is one of seven churches addressed with its own letter in Revelation 2 & 3. Let us see how the idea of discipline runs through the Bible. Eventually they would have to admit their error, at the judgment of unbelievers (the great white throne judgment) if not earlier (Isaiah 45:23; Isaiah 60:14; Romans 14:11; Philippians 2:10-11). I cannot but think that this state of things is referred to here: "Thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth." The Book of Leviticus contains the revelation of God sitting upon the throne, where He places Himself that He may be approached by the people, as far as they could come; that of the priesthood brought into proximity to the throne, as far as men could have access to it; and then the promulgation of t. Moses is willing to be wiped out of the book which God has written, if by his sacrifice he can save his people from the consequence of their sin ( Exodus 32:32-33). I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. This is probably a subjective gentive, meaning the endurance that Jesus Himself displayed rather than the endurance that He requires. "Who calleth herself a prophetess, and teachest and seducest my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols." John 1:51; John 3:3; John 3:5; John 3:11). 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. Learn here, (1.) 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.". Holman Hunt was right when in his famous picture The Light of the World he painted the door of the human heart with no handle on the outside, for it can be opened only from within. I am looking forward to the Lord confessing my name before His Father. my beloved is knocking. Paul said, "You are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. God never abandons his search for the faithful few and they are never lost to his sight in the mass of the wicked. The names of Paul's fellow-labourers for God are written in the book of life ( Php_4:3 ). "Let your garments be always white," said the preacher, "and let not oil be lacking on your head" ( Ecclesiastes 9:8). 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. [Note: See Thomas D. Ice, "The Meaning of Earth Dwellers in Revelation," Bibliotheca Sacra 166:663 (July-September 2009)350-65.] 7 "If Gundry's view of Rev. Writing ones name on something indicated ownership in Johns day, as it does now. It has two aspects of meaning. Dear hearer, see that you win it too. The armies of Caesar travelled that road; the caravans of the merchant-men travelled it; and now it was beckoning the missionaries of Christ. They are neutral in principle and practice, being half-hearted about Christ. Again Croesus was warned, but he failed to see the warning. Our faith stands not in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God. He is going therefore to show unto His "bondmen" a term that would suit not only Christians now, but those who might be in another relationship after we have been taken away from the world. 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 vain does Satan seek to cast down those who resting on Christ's love have Him as the loved object of their life and soul. 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. "He that overcometh, he shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, and will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. But no man knows when eternity will invade his life and God will bid him rise and come; and that must warn the careless to prepare to meet his God and cheer the oppressed with the thought of the coming glory of the faithful soul. . However the future repentance of Israel at Messiahs second coming that will result in the Jews respectful treatment of Gentile believers seems to be in view here (cf. There are two possible pictures here. He was not in the least worried, for he thought that all he had to do was to retire to the impregnable citadel of Sardis, recuperate and fight again. The fire must be kept burning. The Rapture and the Second Coming cannot occur back to back but must be separated by the seven-year Tribulation. It may be, you have little strength of mind; but I hope even then grace enables you to be firm for truth. Such terms alone become one who is divine. James spoke with respect and admiration of the man who kept himself "unstained from the world" ( James 1:27). These were said to be the treasures of the church. It was rich and had acquired wealth and had need of nothing--so it thought. Was it not thus when the epistle to the Ephesians was written by Paul? The seven stars are angels of the seven churches: and the seven lampstands are seven churches.". Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, perfect one" (SS 5:2-6). 4. 1. The Lord no longer dealt so when this kind of footing vanished for the responsibility of man. . Here is a warning against what we might call "spasmodic Christianity." 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. (ii) He is he who is true. 208-18.]. Revelation 10:3 a loud voice Like Christ, the angel spoke with a loud or great voice ( Rev. It is expressly so taught in John's own gospel. In the three previous churches it may be noticed, the call to hear is first, because the Lord is still dealing with the general conscience of the church. So, it wasn't a complete reformation. 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. Supposing that we have not such big heads as some have, and cannot excogitate or multiply sophisms and inventions as they do, it will be no small thing to be commended at the last, in these terms "Thou hast a little strength, but thou hast kept my word." We have a little strength. Again, dear friends, we ought to hold fast to the truth of God, because, if we have little strength, it is there that we shall get more strength. Therefore, as it is a holy thing, a heavenly thing, a priceless thing, keep you God's word. By the power of God upon the hearts of his enemies, and by signal discoveries of his peculiar favour to his church: They shall know that I have loved thee. Exodus 28:36). It is said of the faithful that they "have not soiled their garments." We can rely on his words for he is the Amen. Impossible to believe that e.g. So famous were its doctors that the names of some appear on the coins of Laodicea. It is a quotation from Proverbs 3:12, but one word is altered. A threefold glory of Christ appears: what is personal; what is relative; and finally, what is official. Laodicea prides itself on the magnificent garments it produces but spiritually it is naked and nakedness is shame. In Revelation 3:12 we come to the promises of the Risen Christ to those who are faithful. No one goes to hades before he dies death being in relation to the body, hades to the separate spirit. That is a work that God is going to do in bringing the knowledge to these people. The result was that twenty pounds weight of gold was seized as contraband in Laodicea and one hundred pounds in Apameia in Phrygia. Is it supposed that we shall cheer him on to do better by always finding fault with him? There are some to whom he early opens the gate of usefulness, because he sees in them a spirit that will bear the temptation of success; but in many other cases it is questionable whether they could bear promotion, and therefore the Lord permits them to be tried in different ways until he sees that they are found faithful, and then he puts them into his service, and gives them an opportunity of bearing witness for him. And here we have for our instruction the fact, that the synagogue of Satan of those who say they are Jews, and are not revives. "[51] From Matthew 24, etc., all should be familiar with this quality in prophecies regarding such events. Cold is psuchros ( G5593) ; and it can mean cold to the point of freezing. Esau lost his place to Jacob ( Genesis 25:34; Genesis 27:36). The Risen Christ urges it to buy white raiment from him. What does this mean? The expression is very striking, because it not unnaturally implies that the churches were somehow to exist continuously. Their subjection to the church is described: They shall worship at thy feet; not pay a religious and divine honour to the church itself, nor to the ministry of it, but shall be convinced that they have been in the wrong, that this church is in the right and is beloved of Christ, and they shall desire to be taken into communion with her and that they may worship the same God after the same manner. I believe that that open door will be open to us until the Lord comes. We all know of what small account He was on earth; and so it is with Philadelphia. A new evil appears. 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. "I know thy works, and thy love, and faith, and service, and patience, and thy last works (to be) more than the first." They were themselves corrupters and destroyers of true Christianity without knowing it. Does it mean what we commonly call an angelic being? "I became dead (records John), and, behold, I am alive unto the ages of the ages." So too the witness of grace and truth which came by Jesus Christ was, in His mind, if not in man's, the most suited medium for revealing the coming judgments of God. '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." God was announced in His own everlasting being; the Holy Ghost in His fulness of governmental power; the Lord Jesus in that which was connected with the earth, even if He were risen from the dead; and this put in the last place, because He is viewed only in an earthly point of view. Then, in Him that held them all in His right hand, and walked in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, we have Christ not merely as holding fast those ideal representatives, but as also taking interest in the assemblies themselves. I will keep you . If anything is to be rescued from the impending ruin of the Church in Sardis the Christians there must wake from their deadly lethargy and watch. That is exactly what the church ought to have been and was not; and therefore He has to take that place Himself. Does anyone in his senses think so? This is not association with Christ in His public reign, but in that which is proper to Him above the world altogether. It is said of the righteous that "they will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father" ( Matthew 13:43); and it is said of God that he covers himself with light as with a garment ( Psalms 104:2). In Hierapolis, six miles away from Laodicea, there was a "Congregation of Jews" which had power to levy and to retain fines, and an archive office where Jewish legal documents were specially kept. A Jew in God's sense of the term was not one who could claim racial descent from Abraham but one of any nation who had made the same venture of faith as he had ( Romans 9:6-9). First I would remind you that our text has in it A WORD OF PRAISE. This flagrant church-world corruption was now a settled institution. Though few and small and weak your bands. Thus we have had the general condition falling into decline; we have had the early persecution from the heathen; we have had the power of the world patronizing the church; and we have had finally Romanism, which alone (from the allusion to Christ's coming) is supposed to go on to the end. If the thought of the age happens to be right, well and good; but it is not upon temporary opinion that we rest. ], "The threefold occurrence of onoma (name) is impressive and amounts to a threefold assurance of his identity with God." The Book of Life is a conception which occurs often in the Bible. What Christ promised is safety through trials, not exemption from trials. It is to be feared many are doing the same at this moment. The Katakekaumene was a great volcanic plain bearing the marks of the lava and the ashes of volcanoes then extinct. All through the Old Testament God is the Holy One; and now that title is given to the Risen Christ. Observe, First, The greatest honour and happiness any church can enjoy consist in the peculiar love and favour of Christ. 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. 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. If you have kept God's word you may be wielding an influence far beyond what you imagine. I do not doubt that God intended this, and that we are thus given a double aspect of the book. The world had got in, as it still remains, and alas! The gospel of Christ is the word of his patience. This is the Lord's complaint against them. 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. We will enter into the third section, the things which will be after these things of the church. 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. This is the difficulty in which those are involved who suppose that angelic beings are here meant. Nothing is more common among Protestants, than to admit a thing to be perfectly true because it is in the word of God, without the smallest intention or thought of acting upon it. It is a grand thing to work your passage to a truth, to mine your way to the golden ore by digging and clearing. say you. 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