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Revelation 3c Commentary

Revelation 3c Commentary The LORD Jesus is outside the house and not inside the house with the saint. Very strong imagery!The saint is all by himself, or worse still with another lover inside the house. The LORD Jesus knocks on the door seeking the saint’s attention. It’s still a depressing picture!The saint is doing fine.ContinueContinue reading “Revelation 3c Commentary”

Revelation 3b Commentary

Revelation 3b Commentary The Jews weren’t wrong. The Messiah would hold the key of David. Jesus has just confirmed it!The mention of David means conquest, leadership, and authority. It means freedom. If you can remember the oppression under the yoke of Goliath’s Philistines! Dominion would be the word for it in the Book of Genesis,ContinueContinue reading “Revelation 3b Commentary”

Revelation 3 Commentary

Revelation 3 Commentary When you feel great, you want to want to check your pulse. This feeling might be the kind the Sardisians had. They probably enjoyed healthy social rankings online! Numbers never lied! But Jesus wasn’t impressed. They were a dead church!This letter is as scary as it is encouraging. Amid this life lieContinueContinue reading “Revelation 3 Commentary”

Revelation 2e Commentary

Revelation 2e Commentary The LORD’s message to the church in Thyatira is interesting. Their sin is ‘tolerance’ – probably raising a white flag and declaring a truce against wickedness. Lacking a heart that breeds because the LORD’s name is dishonored by promiscuity, through seduction and manipulation.This letter asks us one important question: What is ourContinueContinue reading “Revelation 2e Commentary”

Revelation 2d Commentary

Revelation 2d Commentary What exactly is Balaam’s teaching that the church at Pergamum must watch out for? The LORD Jesus gives us a hint but the details from the Book Numbers reveal more. Numbers 22. Balaam was a false prophet – more appropriately, a spiritualist whose career was partly fortune-telling. People around believed Balaam hadContinueContinue reading “Revelation 2d Commentary”

Revelation 2c Commentary

Revelation 2c Commentary Pergamum had the misfortune of hosting satan’s throne. This could be a reference to a very high level of wickedness as a consequence of satanic activities. But it also means the city (modern-day Bergama, Turkey) hosted several idol temples. They collectively form the throne of Satan. Jesus has a name for today’s so-calledContinueContinue reading “Revelation 2c Commentary”

Revelation 2b Commentary

Revelation 2b Commentary Letter To Smyrna: The only church with a positive rating! And it is poor! But that is for our statistics. They are rich according to Heaven! Verse 9. If physical letters were delivered, Smyrna would be the next stop after Ephesus, going by the official road northward. The letters would appear inContinueContinue reading “Revelation 2b Commentary”

Revelation 2 Commentary

Revelation 2 Commentary God has information for His servants. He gives it to His Son Jesus. Jesus gives it to His angel. Then the angel gives it to John. And now John delivers it to us – God’s servants in time and space, in a language and manner suitable to the tools available to JohnContinueContinue reading “Revelation 2 Commentary”

Revelation 1 Commentary

Revelation 1 Commentary The Book of Revelation is a letter containing Jesus Christ’s revelation to God’s servants. This revelation contains seven letters to seven named churches in modern-day Turkey: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. The number seven is symbolic. We shall see countless symbols in this book. Therefore, the letters to these churches merely provide real-time context toContinueContinue reading “Revelation 1 Commentary”