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Revelation Chapter 3
Continuing from our previous post.
To be a minister or priest in the nominal Church of to-day, one must bring with him a plentiful store of that which Paul despised and left behind, namely, human wisdom (1 Cor. 1:17; 2:16). There is a wisdom learned by the mature, "even...
Revelation Chapter 3
Before we move on to our next verse let us take a brief recap of our last two verses.
VERSE 15-16 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of...
Revelation Chapter 3
(As taken from, The Keys of Revelation)
VERSE 15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.”
While the comparison here is boiling hot and icy cold, it is the intermediate state of lukewarmness that is, in reality, most...
Revelation Chapter 3
THE SEVENTH CHURCH, SEAL, AND TRUMPET (The Harvest Period)
THE LAODICEA CHURCH (As taken from the, New Albany Notes on Revelation)
It is, strangely enough, a little more difficult to analyze this Church’s message than the previous messages. When we live in the middle of a...
“One of the Seven Messengers to the Church”
(The following was taken from, “The New Albany Notes on Revelation”)
Preparatory Information:
In Revelation we (or John, representing us), are addressed in a number of ways.
(a) Directly by Jesus (Rev. 1:17-20)
(b) By a voice from heaven (Rev...
“To Whom Are the Seven Church Messages Written?”, Part 2
THE SOLUTION?
With the evidences presented in our previous post being nearly overwhelmingly in favor of the messages being meant for the TRUE CHURCH, we must deal with Brother Russell's position stating that the Laodicean message is to...
“To Whom Are the Seven Church Messages Written?”, Part 1
(The following was taken from, “The New Albany Notes on Revelation”)
This question may appear a strange one. The messages to the Churches SHOULD BE to the Church! But the question often arises among brethren as to whether these messages...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 14 continued “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write…”
An extensive newspaper work by the Pastor also provided a worldwide witness. From a small beginning the work expanded until approximately four thousand newspapers and magazines, at one time or...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 14 continued “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write…”
Russell was not the founder of a new religion, he merely revived the great truths taught by Jesus and the apostles, and turned the light of the twentieth century upon these. In so doing, he did...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 14 continued “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write…”
As one of the pioneers in the development of the successful idea of chain stores, Russell soon started a store of his own and rapidly increased his ownership to a chain of stores. His prospects...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 14 “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write…”
The following was taken from Brother Shallieu’s work, “The Keys of Revelation”.
This seventh and last period of the earthly pilgrimage of the nominal Church is styled “Laodicea.” There is a dual...
Choosing the right messenger, continued
Our next question would naturally be,
Who then were these seven men especially chosen by the Lord to deliver his message to each stage of the church throughout its history?
Who do the professing church say they were?
From my own searches I have noted...
Choosing the right messenger
Amongst orthodoxy (the professing church) there are various opinions as to who exactly the seven messengers may be who are mentioned in Revelation Chapters 2 and 3 with one group suggesting that they are literal angelic beings while the other insist that they are...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 12-13 continued “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. 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 I will write...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 12-13 continued “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. 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 I will write...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 11 “Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.”
“The promise of coming quickly was of special meaning to those nearer the end of the Philadelphia period. It was the stimulus for the Miller and Wolff movements —the...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 10 continued, “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, 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.”
“The test of patience seems to have had a more marked occurrence toward the...
Revelation Chapter 3
VERSE 9 “Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.”
“This verse is not actually claiming that these are literal Jews, no more...
Comment: We use Psa 119:62 to show that the resurrection of the Ancient Worthies will occur at a crisis or turning point:
“At midnight I will rise (from the sleep of death) to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.” Therefore, “midnight” can also signify a crisis or turning...
“And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.”
Returning to Verse 7 we note that the very first thing to happen after the midnight cry is that the virgins awoke. (They had been slumbering—see...