revelation 3:10 commentary

Jesus Christ will mark his faithful ones with his new name: what that name was we need not even speculate, for no man knows it ( Revelation 19:12), but in the time to come, when Christ has conquered all, his faithful ones will bear the badge which shows that they are his and share his triumph. The rebuke of God is not so much punishment as illumination. 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. Observe, (1.) When the Roman peace gave it its opportunity it became, as Pliny called it, "a most distinguished city.". Let us bear our protest: the gold is good enough for us. (c) It is just possible that we have an Old Testament picture. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. In the temptation you will fall, for indeed you are fallen already. I trust that many of us can say that the doctrines of grace are our jewels, our estate, yes, our very life. On one of these spurs, fifteen hundred feet up, stood the original Sardis. Hence it is not said here that He walks in the midst of the seven lampstands: that was ecclesiastical strictly. (2.) There is alethes ( G227) , which means "true" in the sense that a true statement is different from a false statement. To get rid of him, Christian said to Hopeful, "Now we will talk a little about experimental godliness and when they began to speak about what they had tasted and handled of divine truth, Mr. Chatterbox dropped behind. That is what happened in Philadelphia. We need pillars in the house of our God. ], 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. Their character is plain. "He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also so to walk" how? 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 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. This would mean that Jesus Christ is the One whose promises are true beyond all doubt. The deliberately-formed conviction that the word of God is the standard of our faith, and the unwavering habit of referring everything to it and standing and falling by it, may not deliver us from every error, but they will save us from that which is the nurse and matrix of every error that is, the habit of trusting to our own understanding, or relying upon the understandings of our fellow-men. It is the great fact, in contrast with the inspired epistle, that you find even among the ante-Nicene Fathers. Offensive against Himself, they were wholly opposed in principle to grace. Another thing is observable, when one looks into what is said here. Hezekiah had a faithful steward called Eliakim, who was over all his house and who alone could admit to the presence of the king. He "ought himself also so to walk even as he (Christ) walked." We have intervention on every side. 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. For it is somewhat novel, especially in the New Testament. But the utmost promised in the word that closes the epistle goes not beyond reigning with Him. (ii) Their names will not be wiped out of the Book of Life. Sardis had been flabby already but the last vestige of spirit was banished from its people and it became a city of degeneration. He who overcomes will be thus clothed in white raiment and I will not wipe his name out of the Book of Life, but I will acknowledge his name before my Father and before his angels. Laodicea prides itself on the magnificent garments it produces but spiritually it is naked and nakedness is shame. Thus we have all sorts of links in the chain. You might as well establish another religion on Mother Goose rhymes or something, or Aesops Fables. In the writing to the angel of the church in Smyrna, a totally different state of things meets us. Those who gather on Sunday evening to study the Word of God. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. This may well stand for the beauties of life and character which only the grace of Christ can give. 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. 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. 478-507, for further explanation of the four major premillennial views of the Rapture; and see Gerald B. Stanton, Kept from the Hour, for refutation of the partial rapture, the midtribulation rapture, and the posttribulation rapture views. He did not like spiritual conversation, neither do any of the breed. Of all things indifference is the hardest to combat. Or perhaps the text may mean that if the temptation shall come you shall be preserved from it. Let me hear each one of you say, "I am not going to take any corners, or twists, or windabouts; but, straight away, what God bids me to do I am going to do; what he bids me believe I am going to believe; and if there is anything to be suffered for it, all right. What is commonly called Puseyism tends to this; and that system is not confined to this country. He puts His voucher on the book from the beginning. Here is Christ the lover knocking at the door of the hearts of men. The phrase is the strongest possible way of putting the matter. "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. 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. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of [my] God." All must be and was measured according to God's own mind, and the place in which He set the assemblies. 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. (2.) The address to Sardis also, although allusive to that of Ephesus, is nevertheless no less clearly meant to stand contrasted with it. What injures, and finally ruins, is invariably from within, not from without. (iv) Apart from all these things, for any man the door of prayer is always open. 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. He who is first is necessarily God; and He who is first, being God, must certainly be last. This meaning is particularly appropriate for Philadelphia. (d) It has been suggested that the white robes stand for the resurrection bodies which the faithful will some day wear. How comes this remarkable introduction of God to Jesus, then from Him through an angel to one servant, who sends to other servants? The once great Sardians were soft, and twice they had lost their city because they were too lazy to watch. 453-55. Remember, then, how you received and heard the gospel, and keep it, and repent. Habits grow upon him until he can no longer break them. Greatest of the Sardian kings was Croesus, whose name is still commemorated in the proverb, "As rich as Croesus." And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder, so he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut and none shall open." We have seen how it was a border town, standing where the boundaries of Lydia, Mysia and Phrygia met, and founded to be a missionary of Greek language and culture to the barbarous peoples beyond. Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. John 8:31-59). They may have only a little strength; their resources may be small; but, if they are faithful, they will see the dawn of the triumph of Christ. The state of the church in Ephesus has the same generality. 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. That was thirty years before the Revelation was written; but it may be that as long ago as that the rot had set in in the Church in Laodicea and an unsatisfactory ministry had sown the seeds of degeneration. Does it not then stand in the place of Jezebel? ], "The threefold occurrence of onoma (name) is impressive and amounts to a threefold assurance of his identity with God." Revelation 3:10 in all English translations. 10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth. It is quite another thing for Christians. Surely something is meant outside the ordinary course of things, where so unexampled a style of address is found. ], Fifth, Jesus Christ will identify with His faithful people. 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. The problem is that to so many Christianity and the Church have ceased to have any relevance and men regard them with complete indifference. "Thou hast a little strength:" there are very few of you, but you have been observant of all precepts and ordinances. It has been said that Sardis stood like some gigantic watch-tower, guarding the Hermus valley. When the signs come, the Christian will know that the last time is near, even at the doors ( Mark 13:29; Matthew 24:33). 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. This would be in effect to deprive ourselves of the Apocalypse, instead of understanding and gathering its peculiar profit. He sees you at your Bible-reading, he marks you in your endeavours to get at the meaning of his word, he notes you when you sit down and meditate upon his divine thoughts, and he takes pleasure in your eagerness to know what the will of the Lord is. I do not of course affirm this; but naturally as the apostles were departing to be with the Lord, Satan would endeavour to furnish instruments nothing loth to claim succession. To the true heart His approval is enough, and sweeter than triumph before the universe. He must, therefore, be ever on the watch. [Note: Swete, p. "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." 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. Identification of Christ as Sender = He who has the seven Spirits of God. It is expressly so taught in John's own gospel. Let us first take the word rebuke. We speak then of what Christ has put us in, not about nature and its wishes and feelings. Remember, Christ praises FAITHFULNESS, not success. [1.] Obedience, fidelity, and a free confession of the name of Christ, are the fruits of true grace, and are pleasing to Christ as such. 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. 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. It is the second of these words which is used here. The things that he saw were the glory of Christ in relation to this book, as described in the first chapter, on which we have already touched. And in this picture we see certain great truths of the Christian religion. Hence, although there are the most complete contrasts in form, subject, and issues between the gospel and the revelation of John, after all the person of the Lord Jesus is pre-eminently kept before us as the object of God's care and honour in both; and therefore it is that even the souls that could not enter into the main topics of its prophetic visions have always found unspeakable comfort in the various displays of Christ Himself furnished by this book, especially in times of trial, rejection and persecution. Is not this a very serious fact? 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. Christ puts them in mind of what he had done for them: I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it, v. 8. 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. Thus whether it be the depraving of souls or the forming sects after an earthly mould among those who were heavenly according to Paul, or whether it be the taking them away from the life of Christ, and from walking as He walked and simply putting them under Jewish ordinances, the Fathers, I fear, as a class, fully earned the awful distinction here assigned by the Lord. And I turned to see the voice which was speaking with me. The spiritual usage of seven in prophetic scripture cannot be questioned. When God judges the ungodly, Christ will protect those who have remained loyal to him. The main object of all prophecy tended rather to have thrown him forward. Revelation 3 KJV. cit., p. 101. 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. 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. He may not be described in His relationships to us, but He who is described is the one that we love. 290. 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. They will not be in that hour. I believe that is something that God is going to do. Good men have many conflicts, let us minister to their comfort. It is for discipline that you have to endure. II. (i) He is he who has the seven Spirits of God. But the point of interest here is, that succession and ordinances became defined as a system about this very time. 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. The Spirit says, "Thou hast a little strength." I am sure Luther is one from whom we may all learn much; whose courage, faithfulness, self-renunciation, and endurance are edifying and instructive. A man did not go home for it; it was simply a picnic snack eaten by the side of the pavement, or in some colonnade, or in the city square. This is of importance to apprehend the scope of the passage and the character of the book. Laodicea was so conscious of its medical skill in the care of the eyes that it never realized that it was spiritually blind. 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. The Church was the Israel of God ( Galatians 6:16). "Jesus Christ" appears as "the faithful witness." "Even so, Amen.". The conclusion of this epistle, Revelation 3:12; Revelation 3:13. . It was given to a chosen witness no doubt really meant for the people, but delivered to Daniel, and only so. "He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him" ( Proverbs 13:24). Jesus will protect Christians who persevere through trials (cp. Most of the population lived outside the city in huts and feared even to go on the city streets lest they should be killed by failing masonry. to the angel of the church of Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness ( Revelation 3:14 ). 71-72; Thomas R. Edgar, "An Exegesis of Rapture Passages," in Issues in Dispensationalism, pp. I am supposing now a scale which attracts the world's attention. I value more a solid confidence in the word of God than even the knowledge that comes out of it; for that faith is a saving habit, a sanctifying habit, in every way a strengthening and confirming and preserving habit. The beginning of the third chapter introduces the protestant state of things. 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." The Greek is elegchein ( G1651) and it describes the kind of rebuke which compels a man to see the error of his ways. "I am the door," said Jesus ( John 10:7; John 10:9). To those who have been true the promise is that they will walk with God. Nor is it confined to prophecy, for the same force holds good wherever symbol is employed. He ordered them to teach their sons lyre-playing, the song and the dance, and retail trading. You remember when Peter came to the house of Cornelius, he said, "Now look, I am really not supposed to be here. The rest of the description is out of chapter one. Possibly if they had felt stronger they might have presumptuously quitted the word of the Lord for the opinions of men, as the Galatians did, and then they would have lost their reward. The process of becoming the slave of sin does not happen overnight. In typical scripture, as well as in prophecy, seven is the regular known sign of spiritual completeness. Now I ask any fair mind, whose style does this identification of nature suit but the writer that we are now reading? 208-18.]. If that light was ineffectual, if there was evil mixed with it, the state of the assembly would partake of it. To those who have been faithful comes the threefold promise. It was theirs, they read it and searched it and made it their own. This is the Lord's complaint against them. The Lord presents Himself even there in the most gracious way to meet their need. Tacitus (see Wetstein, in loco) mentions an earthquake that sank twelve cities in Asia Minor, in one night, by which, among others, Philadelphia was deeply affected; and it is possible that there may have been reference here to that overwhelming calamity. Is not this exactly what Romanism does? palliated most by those who owe their professional status to this frightfully corrupt and corrupting influence. Here we find Jezebel later. In the Spirit he must be, both to shut out every impression from external objects, and to give him an entrance into all that God was about to reveal; but first of all we should recognise the fact that it was on the Lord's day; and next that, before he was shown what was before, he must turn to the voice behind him and learn what the Lord judged of that which bore His name on the earth. The verse seems intended to comfort the whole church rather than to challenge unfaithful or potentially unfaithful Christians. He stands at the door of the human heart and knocks. Undoubtedly the inference is mistaken; still there is no possibility of charging the writer with putting himself forward in the manner in which he has written. Read commentary on this popular Bible verse and understand the real meaning behind God's Word using John Gill's Exposition of the Bible. The seven spirits signifies the completeness of the gifts of the Spirit and the universality of his presence. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the church ( Revelation 3:13 ). We long to know Your truth. Because you have kept my command to endure, I, too, will keep you safe from the hour of testing, which is to come upon the whole inhabited world, to test those who dwell upon the earth. [Note: Thomas, Revelation 1-7, p. The Maeander entered that valley by a narrow, precipitous gorge through which no road could pass. 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. 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). In the time of Vespasian Philadelphia was in gratitude to change its name again to Flavia, for Flavius was the Emperor's family name. I know your works; I know that you have a reputation for life, but that you are dead. Thyatira does, and so Sardis, and also Philadelphia. It sometimes happens that a man is given a task to do and goes towards it with the highest hopes; but it begins to be seen that he is too small for the task and he is removed from the task and it is given to someone else. But why should you not receive it? The terrible accusation against the Church at Sardis is that, although it has a reputation for life, it is, in fact, spiritually dead. 2. May every church of the Lord Jesus Christ, whether it have little strength or much, be concerned to be steadfast in the faith loyal to King Jesus firm in the truths which Christ has taught us by the Holy Ghost. Whichever picture is behind this, the sense is that the faithful ones will wear the unmistakable badge of God. Wealth can do much but there are things that it can never do. [2.] Such a congregation is told that Christ gives that church power sufficient for its work. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent ( Revelation 3:19 ). Hot food and cold food can both be appetizing, but tepid food will often make the stomach turn. We are NOT reading the Bible each day, just providing a reading plan as well as a 3 or so minute observation or devotion based on that day's content. 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