"I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.". I do not mean conflicts about the church, but about his soul, It is needless here to cite passages from his extant writings, which prove how sorely he was tried by inward conflicts of unbelief, which amply prove how far he was from the calm enjoyment of the peace of the gospel; but it is an error to impute them in themselves to any other cause than a lack of clear knowledge of grace. 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. In A.D. 17 there came a great earthquake which destroyed Sardis and ten other cities. The spiritual usage of seven in prophetic scripture cannot be questioned. You remember when Peter came to the house of Cornelius, he said, "Now look, I am really not supposed to be here. This was the public state of things produced in the middle ages, and tolerated where the Lord was named. Cheer up, and get to work. And this is seen to be the occasion of the letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. Though others fall, you shall not; though you may be afflicted with others, yet you shall have grace to sustain you. 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. The following example shows the process from tribulation to patience: I am not now speaking of what was done out of superstition, either to Mary or the church, when each was made a sort of bona Dea, but of the fruit of looking to Christ however simply. 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. (ii) The Risen Christ says: "Repent!" There is not now the sign of activity in service not the robe tucked up, as often remarked. "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not." The Lord does not blame us for having little strength, but for having little love, little faith, little zeal, little consecration. Second, it supplies us with an inspiration. To try them that dwell upon the earth - To test their character. "What shall be after these" must be owned as the true translation of the words. See, I am just a coming to relieve them under the trial, to reward their fidelity, and to punish those who fall away; they shall lose that crown which they once seemed to have a right to, which they hoped for, and pleased themselves with the thoughts of. (iii) Hard as it may sound, the meaning of this terrible threat of the Risen Christ is that it is better not even to start on the Christian way than to start and then to drift into a conventional and meaningless Christianity. The motives, taken from the speedy appearance of Christ: "Behold, I come quickly. Antiochus, who became the ruler of the area in which Sardis stood, was at war with a rival called Achaeus who sought refuge in Sardis. In short, it is Christ in His fullest but most general ministerial and ecclesiastical aspect, viewed, of course, according to the tenor of the book. He takes notice and keeps account, how long he has preserved their spiritual liberties and privileges for them. As Trench has it: "Every man is lord of the house of his own heart; it is his fortress; he must open the gates of it," and he has "the mournful prerogative and privilege of refusing to open." 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. Before they begin the Christian is heard, as also the bride after they close. Here is your anchorage. I believe that result is sure to follow holy conversation and sound preaching. The unwelcome visitation of a thief would be utterly incongruous if they were enjoying the sweet hope according to His own word, that He is coming for them quickly. "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest on my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. It means that He wants to become one with you. 2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. "The time is at hand." He taught Bible studies and cared about other men facing death. This is the Lord's way of delivering those who keep his word: thus he shuts them away from the temptation that comes upon others. So much, then, with regard to this word of praise. Philadelphia, Those Who Keep Are Kept ( Revelation 3:7-13 Continued). Believe you God's word, and you have wrought a god-like work. It was founded with the deliberate intention that it might be a missionary of Greek culture and language to Lydia and Phrygia; and so well did it do its work that by A.D. 19 the Lydians had forgotten their own language and were all but Greeks. 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. Is this wise? 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." 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. This is not at all the way in which His coming is spoken of for His own. In the ancient world columns often bore the names of conquerors. An angel setting forth representation (human or not), an ideal representative of each assembly is meant. This is an aorist imperative and describes one definite action. The problem with the Protestant Reformation is that it wasn't complete. So, because you are tepid and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth. Besides, it is a wise thing, for you that have but little strength, to keep God's word. [Note: Beasley-Murray, p. He can tell of God, because he came from him. Not all the clothes in the world will beautify a person whose nature is twisted and whose character is ugly. If you only influence one child, who can tell what that child may be? That does not matter; but it does matter that you be faithful to your Lord. Show yourself watchful, and strengthen what remains and what is going to die. We never hear of angel as an official title in the ordinary arrangements of the New Testament. (a) It denotes the Holy Spirit with his sevenfold gifts, an idea founded on the description of the Spirit in Isaiah 11:2. God's threat passed on by Nahum to the disobedient people was: "I will let nations look on your nakedness, and on your kingdoms shame" ( Nahum 3:5). Besides, God's word is a supporting thing, and he who quits it leaves his chief helper. . Nor is it that I have any doubt that it is a great sin to wipe off all public recognition of God in the world. Cambridge University Press, 10.1017/CBO9781139208758, pages 120-120, 2013. Now there are many today who are not watching for the return of Jesus Christ. They were not ashamed of revealed truth, but, on the contrary, they took it for their possession, their heritage, their treasure, their all. Not so, I apprehend, where angels of the churches are spoken of. Sir W. M. Ramsay said of Sardis that nowhere was there a greater example of the melancholy contrast between past splendour and present decay. "These things saith he that is holy, he that is true." If the thought of the age happens to be right, well and good; but it is not upon temporary opinion that we rest. I do not the least doubt that those who are commonly called the Waldenses and Albigenses, and others perhaps of similar character, are referred to here. On the other hand, to be clothed in fine raiment was the greatest honour. (ii) The Christian must be on the watch against the wiles of the devil ( 1 Peter 5:8). Temptation waits for our unguarded moments and then attacks. We might well paraphrase it: "It is the people who are dearest to me on whom I exercise the sternest discipline.". I am joyous, glad, strong, happy if these doctrines be true. Your wisdom is not to try to gain keenness of mind that you may emulate the critic, but to lay hold upon God's word, and cling to it, for therein shall be your safety and your victory. 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. It was picked up by the Protestants. This is of so much the greater emphasis, as it is apparently designed in an express manner to counteract the tendency (but too common spite of it) to treat the Apocalypse as if it were of doubtful value and of precarious authority. 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. There was akratisma, breakfast, which was no more than a piece of dried bread dipped in wine. ], "The threefold occurrence of onoma (name) is impressive and amounts to a threefold assurance of his identity with God." For a year Antiochus besieged him; then a soldier called Lagoras repeated the exploit of Hyeroeades. When we are confronted with him, we are confronted with no shadowy outline of the truth but with the truth itself. In gratitude it changed its name to Neocaesarea--the New City of Caesar. (iii) Jesus Christ will write upon the faithful Christian the name of his God. And are you not to walk as He? How shall this great change be wrought? I know thy works: behold I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it ( Revelation 3:8 ): That to me is exciting. The Jewish Temple tax amounted to half a shekel, which was equal to two drachmae. In principle it is true of all that are really faithful, but there may be Christians, as we know there are, involved in one or other of the various states which have been described, and which apparently go on to the close. It is manifest that all carries out the same solemn impression. Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick.It is based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.The plot centers on a doctor who is shocked when his wife (Nicole Kidman) reveals that she had . They were true and ardent, but with no considerable light of knowledge if measured by a fuller and richer testimony which the Lord was afterwards to raise up, as foreshown in the next chapter. 1:18), they will belong permanently to God, to the heavenly city and to their Saviour (12-13). It is quite another thing for Christians. Hence what judges Protestantism is this, that they have the testimony of God's word much more fully than those who had sunk into the mere ecclesiastical formalism of the middle ages. The allusion is clear to Isaiah 11:1-16, where the seven-fold power of the Holy Ghost in government is described as connected with the person and for the kingdom of the Messiah. It is not that the time is actually come so that we must go through all or any part; but the time is at hand. Behold, I have set before you a door which stands open and which no man shuts, because you have a little strength and because you have kept my word, and have not denied my name. I know your works; I know that you have a reputation for life, but that you are dead. But it assumes a somewhat different shape when it becomes a question of assemblies which had not been, so far as we know, sending messengers at all. (ii) Their names will not be wiped out of the Book of Life. 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. A Definitive Study of the Rapture of the Church, pp. , , , , , the word of my patience, I also will keep thee, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. "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." Hold fast God's word and never mind what comes of it for the moment; God's seed may not grow in a day, but it will grow. 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; this hour seems to refer not to any of the vials which will be poured out on the antichristian states, but to some affliction and distress which will befall the reformed churches, and will light upon the outward court worshippers among them It seems to be the last struggle of the beast of Rome, and to denote some violent and sharp persecution, such as what Daniel mentions, that never was before nor since; but it will be but short, but one hour, the twenty fourth part of a prophetical day or year, perhaps about a fortnight; yet it will be very extensive; it will reach all the world, the whole Roman empire, and all that dwell upon the earth, that are called by the name of Christians, and will try them, whether they are so or not; Christ will now have his fan in his hand, and purge his floor of all his formal professors and hypocrites; and it will be known who are his true churches, and pure members; and these he will keep close to himself, and preserve safe amidst all the distress and confusion the world will be in. No call to repentance, just a commendation for keeping the Word, the promise that He would also keep them.Now the final apostate condition of the church, the church of Laodicea represented by those ministers that sued President Reagan for announcing the year of the Bible. Behold, I am standing at the decor and knocking. What He is is the main point. See the notes on Luke 2:1. 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. Whatever discovery may be made by the wise men of the age, let Christ be wisdom unto you. The terrible accusation against the Church at Sardis is that, although it has a reputation for life, it is, in fact, spiritually dead. They did it under great disadvantages, but that only helped to increase the weight of praise measured out to them. 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. They came out, but not far enough. They set up to be more righteous and holy than the rest, whom they denounced as Antinomian because they stood in the true grace of God. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life." In early Christian writings we read that Satan is the arche ( G746) of death, that is to say, death takes its origin in him; and that God is the arche ( G746) of all things, that is, all things find their beginning in him. Some think it a great thing to be members of a popular sect, but when the great curtain rolls up, and all things are seen as they are, and not as they seem, do you not think that that church will be most commended which was truest to the teaching of the Holy Spirit in everything? Revelation 2:17; Revelation 3:5). He will eat supper with you.Now, the Jew would not eat with the Gentile. Be students of God's word and adherents of it. In Revelation 3:8-9 there is a problem of punctuation. "I have set before thee an open door, and none can shut it: for thou hast a little strength." 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). The brethren needed all their strength concentrated on their home work, for they were few, and the miss of one or two from home evangelization and edification would be greatly felt. "Pretrib Rapture" - Revelation 3:10. He gave the Christians five promises instead. Revelation 10 Commentary Interval before the seventh trumpet (10:1-11) During the lengthy interval before the blowing of the final trumpet, John has several other visions. You might as well establish another religion on Mother Goose rhymes or something, or Aesops Fables. It means that they believed it, believed it most thoroughly, and so kept it. Laodicea, The Church Condemned ( Revelation 3:14-22). Still that strength is a matter of degrees and certain churches have a little strength but only a little. You know it is true that God is doing a wonderful work here and it is exciting to see what God is doing, but we have hardly touched the county. ." He must, therefore, be ever on the watch. This very thing condemned the state of Protestantism that resulted; because, while it was freely read, there was scarce any thought of forming all upon the Bible, and regulating all by it. This cannot refer to the bloody persecutions under the Roman emperors, for from those the church at Philadelphia was not preserved. For whom it was more immediately designed: The angel of the church of Philadelphia; this also was a city in Asia Minor, seated upon the borders of Mysia and Lydia, and had its name from that brotherly love for which it was eminent. 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." (i) He is the Amen. Thus the Lord speaks with exceeding tenderness of those that were true to His name. 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. My Lord will revive his buried truth as sure as he is God: the present madness will cease with its own short hour. Hence, evidently, there is a comprehensive term employed with divine wisdom, "to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass." 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. They have the truth in a measure, but not so as to clear souls from bondage, or bring them distinctly into liberty, peace, and the power of the Spirit. We know how many scholars have dared to insult the book in their folly, as I think we may say, with the justest rebuke of their offensive language. He may not be described in His relationships to us, but He who is described is the one that we love. 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. The name of God, in whose cause he engaged, whom he served, and for whom he suffered in this warfare; and the name of the city of God, the church of God, the new Jerusalem, which came down from heaven. Nay, but as we cling to God in feebleness, the divine strength of the word is infused into our souls. Sin, as Burns had it, "petrifies the feeling.". You have been a receiver yourself until now, and that is well and good; but, now that you have become filled, overflow to others, and let them receive of your joy. We grow very vexed if anybody denies them; but if there is no controversy over them we forget them. 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? We can see now why it was. John then, as it is said, "testified the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ." 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to . 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. Their character is plain. Jezebel therefore is the appropriate symbol now, as Balaam was just before. Would that you were cold or hot! At any rate, the great Head of the church did not think it unwise to say to the church at Philadelphia that he thought well of it because it had kept his word. The early fathers thus Judaized; and the leaven has gone on working ever since. [Note: Thomas, Revelation 1-7, p. Explore high-quality books by self-published authors. Does it not mean, first, that they had received the word of God; for if they had not heard it and held it they could not have kept it. And next week as we get into chapters four and five. It is eternal and in them the Spirit still speaks to us. II. I do not say when, where, or how; but as surely as He lives, will the Lord vindicate the truth He has given, and the testimony He has raised up for His name. '"[47] This view of the passage harmonizes with the great high-priestly prayer of Jesus who did not pray that the Father would take his disciples "out of the world" (John 17:15), but that they would be faithful in the world. (ii) It has been suggested that the door which is set before the Philadelphians is none other than Jesus himself. Did they love the shadow or the glitter of human power? First, their Jewish antagonists would eventually have to acknowledge that the Christians were the true followers of God (cf. Verse Revelation 3:10. (b) We see the offer of Christ. "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would that. Many say that we ought to keep "abreast of the times," whatever that may mean; and that there is a certain "spirit of the age," to which we should be subject. The address is to the overcomer, who is accordingly put before the call to hear. For every one that is in the first resurrection is destined to reign with Christ, as even will the Jewish sufferers, earlier or later, under the antichrist. No other religion has the vision of a seeking God. The Christians were dazzled by the world's power and glory, which was put forth doubtless in protecting, not themselves only, but the public faith of Christendom in that day. (2.) 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." Still, after all, one of the grand points fought for at the Reformation, and gained for Protestantism, whatever might be its defects, was this; that man was put fairly, freely, and openly in presence of the Bible. 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. May we not presume that it is for the express purpose of graciously encouraging His servants as well as to anticipate the doubts and cavils of unbelief? In Revelation 3:20 we have one of the most famous pictures of Jesus in the whole New Testament. Its importance was due entirely to its position. Holy is the description of God himself "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts," was the song of the seraphs which Isaiah heard ( Isaiah 6:3). tachy, soon; cf. 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. No commandment appears more frequently in the New Testament than that to watch. "These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass." (John 5:1-47) And now that grace and truth were about to be utterly set at naught, as He Himself had been before by that which bore His name on the earth, John was more than any other suited to let us see the solemn visions of God avenging the slighted rights of His own Son; and this, first, by providential judgments; lastly, by Christ Himself coming in the personal execution of judgment. All intimates that they are in great, and no doubt just, dread of Him as a judge. It is sad. Nevertheless it is God's word and Christ's testimony, though as a whole composed of visions. 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