Revelation 3:3 So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. More, however, is meant than simply loving the word, though that is no small thing. The sheep which grazed round Laodicea were famous for their soft, violet-black, glossy wool. He puts His voucher on the book from the beginning. In A.D. 17 there came a great earthquake which destroyed Sardis and ten other cities. (iii) Laodicea prided itself on its famous eye-salve; but the facts of the case show that it was blind to its own poverty and nakedness. for thou hast a little strength ( Revelation 3:8 ). cit., p. 101. Only this nearness of the Lords coming to reward the faithful provides an effective motive to be tenacious (Alford; Moffatt)." 1:19 + ). Thirteen miles to the west, between Laodicea and the Gate of Phrygia, stood the temple of the Carian god Men. The activity was in the clergy, who brought in the basest compromise with the world, and sold the honour of Christ for silver and gold, for ease and dignity. Those who at Christ's call are caught up to heaven. 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). Revelation (Life Application Bible Commentary) by Bruce B Barton at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0842328742 - ISBN 13: 9780842328746 - Tyndale House Publishers - 2000 - Softcover I must be crushed out of existence before my convictions of the truth of the doctrines of grace in the old-fashioned form can ever be taken from me. 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. I will not be long on the next point, while I just remind you that there is A WORD OF PROSPECT: "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." 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. I have gone into the churches on the Continent, and I have seen gold and silver plate in the sacristy, understood to be worth one or two or three millions of money. What is the meaning of this open door? He would give them grace to bear up under trials with a Christian spirit, and in such a manner that their salvation should not be endangered. [3.] say you. Once it was a question of not denying His faith, as was found in Pergamos; but here it is Himself personally. Laodicea, The Claims Of Christ ( Revelation 3:14-22 Continued). (1.) 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. And this is seen to be the occasion of the letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. Here we are evidently on broad ground. (iii) It has been suggested that the door is the door to the Messianic community. Revelation 2:10 c, 25; Revelation 3:4). The truth was that it was so lifeless that it was not worth attacking. 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. They have never embraced it, and to them no blessing can came through it. And that isn't to say that God doesn't call people as He did to the Jews, but He has not called me. 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 writer to the Hebrews urges patience, for soon he that shall come will come ( Hebrews 10:37). "To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? I am speaking not of individual clergymen at all, but of clericalism wherever found, Catholic or denominational, nationalist or dissenting. 3. This is one of the main sources of confusion on the subject of the Apocalypse to this day. In glory it is just the same, as we see in the book before us. 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. (iii) He is he who has the key of David, who opens and no man will shut, who shuts and no man opens. [46] Walvoord as quoted by Robert H. Mounce, op. Sardis stood in the midst of the plain of the valley of the River Hermus. Surely something is meant outside the ordinary course of things, where so unexampled a style of address is found. The man who refuses to open is "blindly at strife with his own blessedness." God freely acknowledges that life today is full of mysteries; but it will not always be so. If even what belongs to the world be touched, they are in no small agitation about it. Surely love can go no further than that. Heresy is always the product of the searching mind; it is, in fact, the sign of a Church that is alive. He forbade any Sardian to possess a weapon of war. There shall come a day when it will be found that the minorities have generally saved both the world and the church. This has nothing to do with His presence for us; but after our own delight and thanksgiving have gone forth towards Jesus, the testimony to others most suitably follows the song of praise that had, I may say, involuntarily burst forth at His name. If the Lord chastens you, be thankful you are His child and He loves you. But in the meantime I share the truth of God with those that accept, with those that believe. "He that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations." They appreciated it: they fed upon it. 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. If this is the meaning, this phrase describes the life of untroubled goodness which is lived when, after the battles of earth, we reach the presence of God. They have exercised this influence in all ages, and this is where, as I judge, their formation as a system is stigmatized by the Lord Jesus Christ. ], What if some in the church did not keep the word of Christs perseverance? He must, therefore, be ever on the watch. Find fault with a brother and he will be kept from growing too proud; and he will, no doubt, go forward blessing you very much for your kind consideration in promoting his humility. "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore, despise not the chastening of the Almighty" ( Job 5:17). Philadelphia, Those Who Keep Are Kept ( Revelation 3:7-13 Continued). But, Christ points out, the small group of Christians who form the church of Philadelphia are the true people of God in that city. (a) This may be a promise of security. The words of men are trifling in value; it takes a mass of them to come to the value of a farthing; but any one word of the Lord is worth a mint of gold. Revelation Unwrapped: Commentary on Revelation by John Richardson on SharedBookshelves.com. A straggling few may reckon themselves to be the majority when they stand alone with God, for HE counts for more than all the myriads of the earth put together. In A.D. 61 it was devastated by an earthquake; but so rich and independent were its citizens that they refused any help from the Roman government and out of their own resources rebuilt their city. Remember, Christ praises FAITHFULNESS, not success. This does not go along with the public state of the church now. Nobody ever respects him. He is seen in His glorious return to this earth in defeat of His enemies. 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. The Katakekaumene was a great volcanic plain bearing the marks of the lava and the ashes of volcanoes then extinct. The overcomers in Philadelphia were promised future positions with Christ which appear to be described by the meanings of the names given to these two pillars. (a) They had received and heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Apocalypse looks on things after the Holy Ghost had taken His place in the Christian and in the church on earth above all, after the Son had appeared, manifested God the Father, and accomplished redemption here below. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of [my] God." But that cannot happen if every day a man lives in the presence of Christ; he who walks hand-in-hand with Christ cannot be taken unawares by his coming. And the apostle Paul showed that it was really to annul Christ to fall from grace if the law, introduced either for justification or for a rule of life, were imposed on the Christian. I know of one only spirit to whom I desire to be subject, and that is the Spirit of all the ages, who never changes. In any decision regarding the Church, the decisive factor must be not what any man wishes the Church to do but what Jesus Christ wishes to be done. One like the Son of man is next seen "in the midst of the seven candlesticks," which, as we are told, were the seven churches, but these viewed according to the Lord's mind about them as a standard of divine righteousness. Blessed shall he be who only wanted to know the Lord's will that he might do it unquestioningly, caring nothing what the will of other people might be in the matter. Sin, as Burns had it, "petrifies the feeling.". If I am a servant, I ought to behave like a servant. "For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves and chastises every son whom he receives. This seems conveyed in the peculiarity of the words: so careful is the Holy Ghost to watch over the glory of Christ even in that which told out the depths of His humiliation. 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. 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? "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." 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. "It is full time," says Paul, "to wake from sleep" ( Romans 13:11). And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last." 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. Believe you God's word, and you have wrought a god-like work. The remnant is here plain. It is a grand thing to work your passage to a truth, to mine your way to the golden ore by digging and clearing. And so the fullness of the Spirit as it dwelt in Jesus, Isaiah the eleventh chapter. 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. 102. In fact, the principal burden of the great prophecies about to be unveiled was that of strengthening and encouraging the church against that very event. Now there are many today who are not watching for the return of Jesus Christ. Be eager, therefore, and repent. 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. John says, "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. [2.] Let them cry "Lo here, or lo there," but believe them not. God is testing you as sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? In particular the temple was the centre of a medical school which was transferred to Laodicea itself. The Risen Christ is telling the lethargic Sardians to remember the thrill with which they first heard the good news. "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not." (i) It may be the door of missionary opportunity. Here the Lord seems to me to notice its working at the same time that God was in a measure using for good those that were faithful in the heathen persecutions. The main object of all prophecy tended rather to have thrown him forward. In the old story of the kings, Abijah alone of all the sons of Jeroboam was spared because in him was found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel ( 1 Kings 14:13). Oh that my words might call out some faithful ones in these evil days. Thank God that He has set before us the open door. How can it surprise those who are ever awaiting Him? So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." . But here He has the seven Spirits of God. Jesus Christ perfectly satisfied these conditions. For justification this is manifest; for a rule of life it is not so apparent, but it is just as real a denial of the gospel. Overstreet, pp. There can have been few areas where the Jews were wealthier and more influential. "Let us not sleep, as others do," writes Paul to the Thessalonians. The unique new fact that Christianity brought into this world is that God is the seeker of men. There may be three pictures here. In Revelation 3:11 there is promise and warning combined. The reason is manifest, because the way in which we are called to walk is always according to the place and relations in which we stand. The armies of Caesar travelled that road; the caravans of the merchant-men travelled it; and now it was beckoning the missionaries of Christ. "And from the seven Spirits which are before his throne." Revelation 1 Commentary Summary: Read Revelation 1 KJV along with a helpful commentary. I shut and no man can open. These are the men that Christ shall stoop from his throne to honour: they that have trifled with his word shall be lightly esteemed: they that have wilfully broken one of the least of his commandments, and have taught men so, shall be least in the kingdom of heaven. They were not like that famous church at Corinth, where everybody could teach everybody, but where nobody cared to learn of any one. the state of those that bore His own name was such that He was obliged to deal thus sternly with them. Observe, First, The greatest honour and happiness any church can enjoy consist in the peculiar love and favour of Christ. To him that hath shall be given. Here is the picture of Christ searching for sinful men who did not want him. A Church which is so lethargic as to fail to produce a heresy is mentally dead; and a Church which is so negative as to fail to produce opposition is dead in its witness to Christ. To say that Jesus Christ is holy is to say that he shares the being of God. He did originally, as for instance in the ten words, though afterwards in this very particular intervention came in. It is precisely the claim of the so-called church, the assumption of permanent infallibility the setting up to be a sort of inspired authority to enunciate doctrine, and to direct everything in the name of God. This is exactly what is not true of Philadelphia, which is rather formed after a rejected Christ. So, we find within the church today a lot of relics from the Babylonian system, the Babylonian religion. We all know of what small account He was on earth; and so it is with Philadelphia. The first time a man sins he does so with many a qualm. Be students of God's word and adherents of it. The Book is our ultimatum. 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. It says to every man: "This means you." The feebler you are the more closely should you keep to the Scriptures. Thus, besides what the apostle had in his ordinary relation with Christians, and his already lengthened tenure in the service of Christ, he receives now a new character of word and testimony. Because you say, I am rich and I have acquired riches, and I need nothing, and are quite unaware that it is you who are the wretched and the pitiable one, the poor and the blind and the naked one, I advise you to buy from me gold that has been refined by fire that you may be rich, white raiment that you may be clothed and that the shame of your nakedness may not be openly displayed, and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see. Believers on earth will meet the Lord in the air and thus escape the hour of trial . If people despise the truth possessed by those who are waiting for the Lord, they are in danger of falling into the awful condition that is here set forth. [4.] Let us weigh a little more these remarkable words. Elegchos ( G1650) is the corresponding noun, and Aristotle defines it: "Elegchos ( G1650) is the proof that a thing cannot be otherwise than we say." The phrase is the strongest possible way of putting the matter. 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. On that day the inspired writer John was in the power of the Holy Ghost with a view to take in and give out the visions he was to see. 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 man knows the day and the hour when for him eternity will invade time. 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. There is not a word about His coming as a thief now, but with joy. Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. How is it that we here miss that character of direct dealing with us that immediateness of address which is found elsewhere? The promise of Jesus is to keep the Church from this horrible trial that is still coming in the future. Paul said, "You are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. 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. It was a greater proof of fidelity when all was out of course to stand faithful than to be faithful when all things were regular. It is the crushed grape, and not the untouched, from which the costly liquor distils." [Note: See Stanton, pp. If the thought of the age happens to be right, well and good; but it is not upon temporary opinion that we rest. Indeed the same remark will be found true of all the use that is made of Old Testament citations and allusions in the Apocalypse. It was the last bastion of Asian Christianity. The fire must be kept burning. Dead Protestantism. 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. (3) The Spirit of Counsel: A lifeless dying church or individual needs to heed the counsel of God. You may never become more numerous, or more influential; but do let it be true of you, that you have kept God's word. It may be, you have little strength of mind; but I hope even then grace enables you to be firm for truth. Phillips puts it: "They will maintain a facade of 'religion,' but their conduct will deny its validity.". He taught Bible studies and cared about other men facing death. 1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. We so often regard him as the one to whom we look for things; for his strength, his help, his support, his comfort. Montefiore, the great Jewish scholar, said that the one thing which no Jewish prophet or Rabbi ever conceived of is the "conception of God actually going out in quest of sinful men, who were not seeking him, but who were turned away from him." 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." Show yourself watchful, and strengthen what remains and what is going to die. "These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass." Your book matters, let's make it your way! 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. Under John's leadership, Grace Community Church's two morning worship services fill the 3,500-seat auditorium to capacity. "The things which are" present the prolonged condition set forth in the addresses to the seven churches. The angel, it is needless to say, is not without good reason named in relation to the revelations which God was here giving. Bible > Commentaries > Revelation 3:9 Library Free Downloads eBibles Revelation 3:9 Isaiah heard God say of this faithful Eliakim: "and I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open" ( Isaiah 22:22). God is beginning the end, the resolution of all things, the gathering together (resolution, summing up) of all things in one in Jesus ( Ephesians 1:10 ). He is spoken of as Son of man; and, as we know, this is the quality in which it is given Him to execute every kind of judgment. The council in Jerusalem expressly exempted the Gentiles from being put under the yoke of law. When they reached the top they found the battlements completely unguarded. The Lord bids them in effect to have nothing to do with her, and He will give the true power when He takes it Himself. Clarke's Revelation 3:10 Bible Commentary 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. There is an unwritten saying of Jesus: "He who is near me is near the fire." 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. Nothing can be simpler. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands." You are children of the light, therefore walk as children of the light." If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons" ( Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 11:8). A man should live every day as if it were his last. . St. Bernard away back in the twelfth century used often to say to his monks that, "However early they might wake and rise for prayer in their chapel on a cold mid-winter morning or even in the dead of night, they would always find God awake before them, waiting for them--nay, it was he who had awakened them to seek his face.". It is a setting aside of man altogether; and the reason is that Laodicea is the glorification of man and of man's resources in the church. You have a little strength.We are not very strong. Here we have to remark that Christ is seen in a judicial point of view. The state of the church in Ephesus has the same generality. The word translated "sup" is deipnein ( G1172) and its corresponding noun is deipnon ( G1173) . "How do I know that they will accept it?" 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. He gave the Christians five promises instead. I open and no man can shut. 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 come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. This would mean that Jesus Christ is the One whose promises are true beyond all doubt. Galatians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:4-10). 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