Message To The Church Of Philadelphia--Mike Albert
Message To The Church Of Philadelphia
Revelation 3: 7-13 (LSB)
7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
This is what He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says:
8 ‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have given before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
9 ‘Behold, I am giving up those of the synagogue of Satan, those who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.
10 ‘Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
11 ‘I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
12 ‘He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of My God, and he will never go out from it anymore. And I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.
13 ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
VERSE 7. “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
This is what He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says:”
Mark 1: 24, “What do we have to do with You, Jesus the Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
Luke 1: 35, “The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.”
John 6: 69; “And we have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.”
Acts 3: 14, “But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,...”
1 Peter 1: 15-16, ... “but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your conduct; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Here we are, some 2000 years later, and like King Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:9... “That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.”
John 14: 6. “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.”
VERSE 8. “I know your deeds. Behold, I have given before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.”
1 Corinthians 16: 9, “...for a wide and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.”
2 Corinthians 2: 12, “Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ and when a door was opened for me in the Lord,...”
Colossians 4: 3,...“praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been bound,...”
VERSE 9. “Behold, I am giving up those of the synagogue of Satan, those who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.”
Romans 2: 28-29
28 “For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
29 “But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.”
“Had one Father, God...” in John 8:41: He replied, “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Romans 9:6, “But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;...”
VERSE 10. “Because you have kept the word of My perseverance,
I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is about to
come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the
earth.”
John 14: 1-4
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
4 “And you know the way where I am going.”
1 Corinthians 15:51-54
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on the incorruptible, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 But when this corruptible puts on the incorruptible, and this mortal puts on immortality, then will come about the word that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.
1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Isaiah 22:20-22: “Then it will be in that day, That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, And I will clothe him with your tunic And tie your sash securely about him. I will give your authority into his hand, And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. “Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder, When he opens no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.”
