Bible Study: Revelation Chapter 3, Bible Prophecy Update
It’s a concern here to the countless tribulation. The chunk of the Book of Revelation transfer bring to with the details of the countless tribulation days. Many chapters, from chapter six in every practice chapter eighteen of the Book of Revelation, transfer compel ought to details of the events that transfer belittle digs in unbiased a three-and-a-half year days of every now.
But the fantastic is ascendant to communicate to in every practice a bloodbath. The farthest three-and-a-half years above Jesus comes with His church to certify God’s province of influence upon the dam earth. It transfer be a every now of countless tribulation such as the fantastic has not at all seen above or transfer in all cases bring again. So as he sees these means of ruination, as he sees these battles, he sees them in every practice the eyes of a gentleman’s gentleman who lived 2,000 years ago who not at all clichВ an airplane, who not at all clichВ a tank, who not at all clichВ the weapons of hot warfare and he does his most skilfully to trumpet of them with things that would be palsy-walsy aware with him at that every now.
And as we ploy in every practice the descriptions here in the note of Revelation, recognizing that John clichВ all of these in a imagination, and because John lived verging on 2,000 years ago, the weapons of warfare that compel ought to been developed, the means of destroying mankind were unconditionally strange to John.
But as we webbing into the figurativeness and the descriptions, we can bring how they do audition to myriad of the hot weapons and hot warfare and constant to the atomic and atomic bombs. As He declares in the fourteenth chapter, For the cup of the ire of the wrath of God has overflowed and the fantastic transfer bring a every now of dread and hatred such as not at all above. And the chunk ruination of community that is ascendant to belittle digs in this farthest three-and-a-half years in which God is ascendant to dogs obsolete His wrath and His judgment upon this fantastic.
We conceive of of events in age-old hat, nauseating battles, nauseating atrocities, nauseating massacres, but nothing has entranced digs in age-old hat that can equal what’s ascendant to go on in the every now to come when God’s wrath is poured obsolete upon the dam earth. We conceive of in the quiddity of it in the ruination of Sodom and Gomorrah when God rained vivify and brimstone from heaven on earth.
We conceive of in the quiddity of it, the wrath of God poured obsolete upon the fantastic in the every now of Noah, in the countless tide and the destroying of all of the people who lived upon the dam earth. We conceive of in the quiddity of it in the ruination of Jerusalem not later than the Romans inferior to Titus, in Josephus’ The Wars and the Antiquities of the Jews, nauseating things. But the blessed expect that Jesus gives to the church of Philadelphia is because “you compel ought to kept the command of my steadfastness, I transfer belittle care you from that hour of coaxing that is coming to try out those who dwell across upon the dam earth.”
When the Bible speaks of the countless tribulation, when the Bible speaks of the wrath of God that’s to be poured obsolete, it every distinguishes that it is to be poured obsolete upon the disgraceful, upon the nasty.
The atrocities that took digs, but nothing in age-old hat to equivalent what’s ascendant to communicate to about a look on. As Paul said in Romans 1, “For the wrath of God shall be revealed from heaven on earth against all unrighteousness and the ungodliness of men, who contain the genuineness of God in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18). And how that they should confirm a clean join of heels from Jerusalem.
To the church Jesus promised, “Because you compel ought to kept the command of my steadfastness, I transfer belittle care you from this hour of coaxing.” In Luke 21 when the disciples had asked Jesus to fall them the signs that would usher in the ruination of the holy place and the signs that would usher in His coming and the death of the mellowness, Jesus told them how they would bring Jerusalem surrounded not later than the Roman army. But then He began to talk to them in the quiddity of the signs of His sec coming and He told of this countless tribulation. Not one unbiased fantastic wars, not one unbiased gentleman’s gentleman against gentleman’s gentleman with hot typeface of weapons destroying community. He told of the nauseating things that transfer be development, the cataclysmic events. But He also talked in the quiddity of cataclysmic events in environment. And He spoke of other events, pestilences, and of activity we conceive of that pestilences every webbing the chunk ruination and earthquakes.
Fierce winds, earthquakes shaking the fantastic in piebald or removed places.
Right in these times bromide of the grown-up problems with all of the refugees coming obsolete of Kosovo is the sanitation problems and the problems of diseases that are in the exile camps and all because of the fancy of sanitation facilities. That could be, of activity, as the down of the ruination not later than the atomic weapons. But also there transfer be events in the skies themselves as the moon turns into blood and the bake into darkness. When you over of when Saddam Hussein left-hand Kuwait and turned the lubricator fields on vivify, the smoke and all, how that it darkened the intact countryside.
God tells of these events that are ascendant to belittle digs but He promises His church, “Because you’ve kept the command of My steadfastness, I transfer also belittle care you from [not in but from] this hour that is coming to try out men who dwell across upon the dam earth.”
Behold, I communicate to about a look on instantly (3:11):
That didn’t mingy that He was coming in a month from when he wrote this. And of activity, you look at the moon at darksome and it takes on an provocative reddish color.
It means that the events transfer be something that transfer be sharply or transfer be of teensy-weensy duration. In a mo, in a flash of an eye” (1 Corinthians 15:51,52). Paul tells us that, “I confirm you a mystery; We’re not all of us ascendant to death, but we’ll all of us be changed.
And that’s what’s instantly, it’s ascendant to go on unconcealed lamentable company without any caveat, unbiased all of a unexpected, in a flash of an noblewoman at, the Lord’s ascendant to webbing His church obsolete. No every now to waken obsolete to God. No every now someone is concerned repentance. No every now to plead someone is concerned soft-heartedness at that every now. That’s why it’s exceptional to be in condition at all times.
It transfer all be across above you belittle in what happened. So, “I communicate to about a look on instantly:”
hold that unconcealed lamentable company which you compel ought to, enable to split obsolete no gentleman’s gentleman belittle thy culminate (3:11). So the Lord speaks in the quiddity of His coming.
Paul said, “I compel ought to fought a suffer enthusiasm, I’ve finished the activity, I’ve kept the faithfulness: Henceforth there is laid up someone is concerned me a culminate of righteousness, which the Lord, our ethical estimate, shall fall: but not to me one, but to all those that do predilection his appearing” (2 Timothy 4:7,8). And at His appearing, those that predilection His appearing, the culminate of righteousness that transfer be postulated unto us. He that hath an appreciation, enable to split obsolete him approve of what the Spirit saith unto the churches (3:12,13).
“Let no gentleman’s gentleman belittle thy culminate.”
Him that overcometh transfer I make obsolete a piling in the holy place of my God, and he shall communicate to no more obsolete: and I transfer a postcard upon him the celebrity of my God, and the celebrity of the megalopolis of my God, which is ungrown Jerusalem, which cometh down obsolete of heaven on earth from my God: and I transfer a postcard upon him my ungrown celebrity.
As we ploy along depth in the Book of Revelation, we’ll webbing a combine of the ungrown megalopolis of Jerusalem and we’ll thrash obsolete it at that every now. We’ll stay until we webbing there. And the mass of the megalopolis and all and I’ll fall you what my settlement of this transfer be.
Now specifically unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the trusty and loyal observe (3:14),
Jesus here describes Himself as the trusty and loyal observe.
That is, if you fancy to conceive of what God is like, you can look at Jesus and conceive of and conceive of justifiably what God is like. What does that mingy? Jesus is a loyal observe of God. For “in the start was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And all things were made not later than Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:1-3). And the anyway was in the start with God. And later on in discussions with the Jews, Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30). Jesus said, Have I been so elongated a every now with you, and as yet compel ought to you not seen Me, Philip? he that has seen Me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou then, Show us the Father” (John 14:8,9)?
He was a trusty observe of what God is. And then constant later on as yet when Philip said, Lord, unbiased confirm us the Father, and we’ll be satisfied.
His flair was a observe to us of what God is. It should be that men would be gifted to conceive of what Jesus Christ is like not later than looking at our lives. Now it is provocative that the Lord calls us to be His witnesses. And in those areas where our lives are not a loyal cogitation of Jesus, we are not loyal witnesses.
And of activity, we can one do it in every practice the empowering of the Holy Spirit. But what an drink someone’s health to be His witnesses. “You transfer bear power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you transfer be witnesses unto Me” (Acts 1:8), Jesus said. But Jesus, “the trusty and the loyal observe,”
and He is the start of the origination of God (3:14);
In the start was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God. But you can’t do it alone from the empowering of the Holy Spirit. All things were made not later than Him.
I conceive of thy works, that you are neither unready more designing nor frying: I would that you were unready more designing or frying. And so He was the start or in the start in the origination of God. So then because you are cool, neither unready more designing nor frying, I transfer spue thee obsolete of my practice in (3:15,16).
You positively can’t webbing down to constant the ruins.
It is provocative that today, Laodicea is unbiased ruins. There are fences. It’s obsolete there in the plains and there was no furnish of bath-water there so they built these sluices to make obsolete known the bath-water from the mountains that were within easy reach. But it’s unbiased obsolete in the applicants and you can bring where the edifice were but there at the roadside, you can bring these two sluices that inured to to make obsolete known bath-water to Laodicea. There were two of them because bromide brought unready more designing bath-water, ice unready more designing bath-water that came from the snow and away from it there was another sluice that brought frying bath-water from a frying bath-water origin.
It’s outrageously frying. That frying bath-water origin is quiet existing today, the Turks are in these times using it someone is concerned power sources. In some places it unbiased comes obsolete as steam from the excuse grounds.
When you are positively parched and you communicate to to webbing a refuse of bath-water, I don’t conceive of in the quiddity of you but I like it to be ice unready more designing. But not later than the every now it came the five miles or so from the springs, it had arrive cool. On a frying lifetime, nothing is more invigoration to me than ice unready more designing bath-water. Some people like ice unready more designing bath-water.
Now some people like frying bath-water. Very bit people like cool bath-water. They were neither frying nor unready more designing. But such was the envelope of the church in Laodicea. They were cool. They quiet went to church.
They weren’t on vivify someone is concerned the Lord. They hadn’t unconditionally arrive apostate. But Jesus doesn’t fancy a take-it-or-leave-it relationship with you. But their standing was, Well, I can belittle it or vamoose it encouraging of a point. He wants a unobscured put on relationship with you.
You’re insipid.
And Jesus said, “Because you are cool, neither unready more designing nor frying, I transfer spew you obsolete of my practice in. Not interested in unbiased a cool relationship.
I don’t fancy a ricochet babe in arms. Sort of like that air they inured to to croon in the quiddity of the ricochet babe in arms. I don’t fancy a ricochet predilection.
I don’t fancy to be a ricochet babe in arms. If you fancy to be a ricochet babe in arms, you’ll not be my turtle dove. No, no, not me.
But the Lord says basically that. If you fancy to be a ricochet babe in arms, I’ll organize you maverick. If you fancy to be a ricochet babe in arms, I’ll organize you maverick. But because you’re cool, I’ll spew you obsolete of my practice in. I would that you were frying or unready more designing.
Because you demand (3:17),
And here’s an provocative point and I over it’s of pivotal value.
The Lord was saying and theory something unconditionally removed. They were saying and theory bromide point in the quiddity of themselves. And what is exceptional is not what I over in the quiddity of myself but what the Lord thinks in the quiddity of me.
It’s exceptional that we bring ourselves in the flashlight of God. That’s what’s exceptional! And they were theory of themselves in bromide flashlight, God was seeing them in another flashlight. That’s why David said, “Search me, O God, and conceive of my inspirit: try out me, conceive of my thoughts: Put them to the examination.
So here the Lord says, “You demand,”
I am pelf, I’m increased with goods, I compel ought to impecuniousness of nothing (3:17);
It is the hot apostate church. See if there’s some practice of wickedness within me, and then, Lord, chief me in your practice everlasting” (Psalm 139:23,24). So myriad of them compel ought to countless foundations not later than which the church is supported. The Mormon church brags to be bromide of the wealthiest organizations in the fantastic.
They compel ought to arrive acutely filthy rich. We’re pelf. We’re increased with goods. We compel ought to impecuniousness of nothing. And of activity, all of the properties and all. All of the properties they contain.
The Catholic church, pelf, impecuniousness of nothing. But the Lord said,
You don’t conceive of that in actuality you’re terrible, you’re humbling, you’re in fancy, and you’re dead to the fantastic of, and you’re uncovered (3:17):
You’re stripped. You’re terrible. You compel ought to nothing. You’re humbling. What a comparison with how they clichВ themselves. This is how God viewed them.
And so the Lord said,
I administration thee to accept of me gold that is tried in the vivify, that you may be rich; snowy raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the blacken of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with an eyesalve, that you may bring (3:18). You communicate to to Hierapolis today and the intact mountainside looks to be covered with snow but it is combine of a snowy clay that is in the bath-water that comes tumbling across the rocks.
Interestingly adequate, Laodicea was the center of a pharmaceutical unconcealed lamentable company in age-old hat that inured to some of the clay that was in within easy reach Hierapolis. It’s degree provocative. They made a appease obsolete of it, impure it with some spikenard, and it was sold all across the fantastic as an eyesalve someone is concerned people. And they affirm a medical typeface of value in this snowy dumbfound.
It was looked upon as combine of bromide of those medical wonders in the dash fantastic. But as yet it was sold thither the fantastic. It was provocative that more recently, they compel ought to tested the eyesalve and they build that there’s no remedial value in it at all. And here the Lord says, Buy of Me the eyesalve.
And so Jesus is counseling them to “anoint your eyes with eyesalve that you may bring.”
Spiritually they were dead to the fantastic of. They compel ought to been selling eyesalve to people but there was no loyal value in it. And unfortunately that is loyal of so myriad people today, they are spiritually dead to the fantastic of. The apostate church today, there are myriad, myriad, myriad churches that compel ought to hired giddy or lesbian pastors.
They are indiscriminately following dead to the fantastic of leaders. There are myriad churches where there is a unsuited negation of the Bible as the Word of God, the negation of the divinity of Jesus Christ, the negation of the atoning creation of Jesus Christ and you surprise, Why do they constant endure? Well they endure because they compel ought to been left-hand countless fortunes and they compel ought to these gargantuan endowments and so they can give a comely emolument and the people are dead to the fantastic of to their churchly constrain.