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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 59
REVELATION 2:11 – 3:22 - PART 2
The same way, Paul never has one word of condemnation to the Philippian church. The church at Philadelphia was much the same as the church of Philippians in Paul’s letters. Revelation 3:9
"Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, set up my standard to the people, and they shall bring thy sons in their arms and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. Revelation 3:10
Come back with me to Jeremiah chapter 25. Jeremiah 25 dropping down to verse 29. This is prophecy. Jeremiah 25:29
Ye shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword(now a sword speaks of death) upon all the inhabitants (not just of Jerusalem, but what?) of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts." The whole earth is going to come under this wrath and vexation.
"A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; (not just Israel, now, we’re talking about the nations of the world) he will give them that are wicked to the sword saith the LORD. 32. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, this evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the borders of the earth. Now, come back to Revelation if you will and we’ll just jump ahead a few chapters and go to chapter 6. Revelation 6:8
Revelation 3:10-11
"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 test them that dwell upon the earth. 11. Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." See now, there’s no condemnation here; this is all a commending from the Lord for this particular congregation.
Revelation 3:12
"Him that overcometh I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from God: and I will write upon him my new name." All right, now let’s go all the way back to Ezekiel and, if I’m not mistaken, it’s the last verse of the last chapter of the book of Ezekiel, chapter 48. Ezekiel 48:35
It will be the name of the city. And it is the finality of God’s dealing with the earth as we know it even today.
Revelation 3:13
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches" (or these assemblies). All right now, hopefully, we can wind up book 59 with this lesson, and hopefully I can finish these first three chapters of Revelation because I checked on our book 11 this morning and we started back in Revelation at that time in chapter 4. So, if I can finish chapter 3, then I’ve got the book of Revelation taught from start to finish.
Revelation 3:14
All right, now we’ve all heard about the Laodicean church haven’t we? And it’s always associated with the "lukewarm" or the end-time church. All right, now let’s read verse 15. Again, the Lord speaks of knowing their works. Revelation 3:15
I would thou were cold or hot." Revelation 3:16-17a
"So then because thou art lukewarm and neither hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods,…" The Lord continues:
Revelation 3:17b
"…and knowest thou not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." Spiritually. Revelation 3:18-19
"I counsel thee (or I advise thee) to buy of me gold, tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich: and a white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear: (That is the spiritual; this is what Jesus is talking about. Now, let’s go back and see how Paul uses comparative language for the end-time church. Now, look how Paul makes the same kind of comparison with the Church Age, and how we, too, are just as destitute, for the most part, as the Laodiceans were.
II Timothy 3:1a
II Timothy 3:1-2a
covetous, (well, what makes people covetous? Materialism. Well, it’s all a sign of what Paul calls right here, the end-time, perilous times – blasphemers. They have no compunction about using the name of God in blasphemy and profanity.
3. Without natural affection,…" 4. Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; (Isn’t that true? Oh, they’re in church. II Timothy 3:5b-8
All right, now let’s come back to Revelation chapter 3, for the last three or four minutes. Revelation 3:19
Revelation 3:20-21
(assemblies) Judgment, chastisement, warning! Even to these careless Jews in these congregations there in Asia Minor, the God of Grace is still the same.
Romans 5:20
There is no sin so vile that God cannot go beneath it with the grace of God and bring them out. We may be miserable, but God’s grace never stops operating.

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