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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
The Philadelphia Church brought God's people back to the word and fundamentals of the faith. The world system, which is run by Satan, didn't like that. Wow, what a shock. Satan's not a fan of the church that loves Jesus most predictable response ever.That part shouldn't surprise any Christian. I don't believe the church needs to be concerned by a world increasingly hostile toward the church. We know from our earlier studies of churches like Smyrna that persecution only purifies the church and makes her more effective. We also learned how effective Satan was at undermining the power of the church when he joined the church and married her to the state, to the culture, and to society at large. In a similar way, I believe Satan is attacking the Philadelphia church with the latest in church, he is attacking the church that faithfully holds to the word of God with the church that elevates society and the culture above the word of God.
I believe that prophetically, the synagogue of Satan that biblically faithful churches today are battling is the latest in church, the church that is more concerned with being approved by the culture than they are of being approved by Jesus, the church that is all too happy to publicly condemn the biblically faithful churches. If it means scoring a few more points with the culture. And I believe Jesus is saying stay faithful to Me in my word because in the end you will be vindicated by Me.
And those in the latest in the church will see that you were on My side and they were not. Verse 8- 10, because you have kept My command to persevere back in Verse 8, Jesus commanded this church for keeping His word, and then here in verse 10, He commends them for keeping His command to persevere. Remember back in Revelation three where John mentions the special blessing on the Book of Revelation? That's what this church is doing. They're living in obedience to God's word.
They're reading it and they're reading it. And that's why we want to be like them. Write this down. They've stayed faithful to Jesus. They've stayed faithful to Jesus. They've accepted the invitation of Jesus to be blessed by reading and heeding His word. The Philadelphia church is all about God's word. And God says that's what I like to see. I love this church because you've kept My command to persevere. Here's what I'm going to do for you.
I also underline this whole section here. I also will keep you from the hour of trial, which shall come upon the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth. The original Greek is emphatic that the hour refers to a specific appointed time, like the hour of his trial. Jesus is speaking here of the tribulation. The Bible refers to it as a time of testing and trouble. And according to Jesus, it's about to come upon the whole world.
In Greek, the word we can refer to an hour, a day, or even a season. In this case, it's referring to the hour of the tribulation. A future time period will learn, will last seven years. Now, some will say, oh, Jesus is saying that he will sustain believers and give them the strength to endure the tribulation. And they will often offer as evidence a line from Jesus's great high priestly prayer in John 17-15, where he prays to his heavenly father regarding his disciples.
I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one. And they will say, See, Jesus wants His followers on Earth to endure suffering. The problem is that the original Greek makes it absolutely clear that is not what Jesus is saying. In Revelation three ten, the Greek phrase used to describe being kept from something consists of the verb te ratio and the preposition each each means out of, away from.
And when it's used with Taddeo it refers to a continuous existence outside of something.