1. A translation of Rev. 3:7-13.
“[7] And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; [8] I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. [9] Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. [10] 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. [11] Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. [12] Him that overcometh will I 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 new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. [13] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” The church time and state of Philadelphia. Rev. 3:7-13.
2. This church time and state starts as the beginning of the great Advent revival that came through Bible prophecy in 1833-1844. Hence it starts at about 1844 when the second apartment of the heavenly sanctuary was opened. Consider these connected points:
a. There is a sanctuary in heaven in which Jesus ministers. Heb. 8:1-6; Heb. 10:21.
b. Jesus entered into the first apartment of this heavenly sanctuary when He ascended into heaven. Heb. 6:19, 20; Heb. 9:12,24.
c. The heavenly sanctuary is not made exactly like the old Mosaic tabernacle, one of the differences is that there are doors instead of veils. Isa. 6:1-4.
d. When the door into the first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary is opened, John saw it in vision. Rev. 4:1-5.
e. The door of the second apartment opened in heaven in 1844. Rev. 11:18,19.
f. The 2300 days/years end in 1844 when the sanctuary is to be cleansed. Dan. 8:13,14; Dan. 9:25.
g. This is also called the Judgment. Rev. 11:18; Dan. 7:9, 10.
h. When the Judgment sits (1844) they (the saints) take away the dominion of the Papacy from the gospel, the obscuring dominion of Catholicism is terminated. Dan. 7:26.
i. This means that the saints rediscover the final part of the Gospel (Rev. 14:6,7) that was lost, so they now have the whole gospel or the completed mystery (Eph. 6:19) — the full gospel. Rev. 10:7; Rev. 11:15,18,19.
j. The saints that rediscover the full gospel are they to whom the sanctuary of the second apartment is opened. How so? Because as the law, called testimony is seen in the ark of the covenant. Rev. 11:19; Rev. 15:5; Ex. 31:18; Deut. 9:9-11; Deut. 10:2,4,5.
k. The saints recognize they have to keep all the law which includes the Sabbath to face the judgment. Jam. 2:8-12; Heb. 4:9.
l. Therefore they are identified as the last remnant true church who keep all God’s Commandments. Rev. 12: 17; Rev. 14:12.
m. Thus it is a Sabbath-keeping remnant church to whom God opens the second apartment of the Heavenly Sanctuary that is identified as Philadelphia — the one to whom God has set an open door. Rev. 3:8; Isa. 58: 11-14.
n. Since this remnant church came on stream at 1844, then the true date for Philadelphia is 1844, all though its church finds its roots in 1833.
3. Since this is the church time, that lives in the time of the opening of the second apartment of the heavenly sanctuary, it is really the last true church, because after it Christ comes. Rev. 3:11; Rev. 14:14-16.
4. The church time and state that follows it (Laodicea) is not acceptable to Christ, so it is only those who repent, returning to the Philadelphian state that will be saved. Rev. 3:15, 16,19,20.
5. A chart that illustrate this is as follows:
AN ILLUSTRATE CHART:
144000
1844: PHILADELPHIAN STATE time) True Church develop
Many fall to Some repents and CLOSE
this state returns to this state
OF
1852: LAODICEAN STATE (time) Lukewarm Church PROBATION
Synagogue of Satan
6. Since the 144000 has the Father’s name written in their foreheads, and this same identification mark is seen for the true church of the Philadelphian age and state, this means that the Philadelphian true church develops the 144000, and they have that state. Rev. 14:1-3; Rev. 3:12.
7. The Laodicean time and state produces an apostate church that claims to be Jews (true people of God: Rom. 2:28,29) but are not, since they are false Sabbath keepers, they are the synagogue of Satan who persecutes their brethren. Rev. 3:9; Jer. 7:4-11; Ps. 50:16-20.
8. Exegesis of Rev. 3:7.
a. “...he that is holy…”
i. Jesus is holy, being the true priest of His church. Mk. 1:24; Isa. 54:5; Heb. 7:25,26.
b. “...he that is true…”
i. Jesus is true so His words and judgment are true. 2 Sam. 7:28; Ps. 19:9; Jn. 8:14-16.
c. “...he that hath the key of David…”
i. This phrase is taken from a prophecy in Isa. 22:20-23.
ii. Eliakim in this prophecy is a type of Christ because:
1. He is called “my (YHWH’S) servant” as the prophecy of Jesus in Isa. 53:11.
2. The government is committed into his hand like the prophecy of Jesus in Isa. 9:6,7; Isa. 22:21.
3. He is called a father to Jerusalem (the true church) like Jesus is called father (because He is God). Isa. 9:6; Matt. 23:9; Isa. 22:21.
4. His house is called “his father’s house” even though it is the house of David, and this is the church as seen in Heb. 3:6; Isa. 22:23.
iii. Now the key of the house of David to open and to shut is the authority of Jesus over the church. Isa. 22:22; Rev. 1:18.
iv. Jesus is identified as having the “key of David” to the church of the Philadelphian age and state because He alone has real authority to open the door of the second apartment to the church since He is the minister of the heavenly sanctuary. Heb. 8:1,2.
v. We must also remember Jesus is symbolically represented as being in charge of the mansions of His “father’s house” to give each church member a place there. Jn. 14:1-3.
d. “...he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth…”
i. As Eliakim has authority of the house of David (the church) with the key to open and shut, so Jesus has authority of the church, being the only way for it to God. Isa. 22:22; Heb. 3:6; Jn. 14:6; Matt. 11:27.
9. Exegesis of Rev. 3:8.
a. “...I have set before thee an open door…”
i. This is the door to the second apartment of the heavenly sanctuary that was opened in 1844. Rev. 11:19.
ii. This door was opened in 1844.
“...I was shown that the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ relating to the shut door could not be separated, and that the time for the commandments of God to shine out with all their importance, and for God’s people to be tried on the Sabbath truth, was when the door was opened in the most holy place — This door was not opened until the mediation of Jesus was finished in the holy place… in 1844.” Ellen G. White, Early Writings, pg. 42.
b. “...and no man can shut it…”
i. The opening into the second apartment of the heavenly sanctuary was deliverance of the Gospel from obscuring Papal dominion. Now that the full Gospel is recovered, no one is able to obscure it again forever; because the obscuring Papal dominion was to be consumed and destroyed right unto the end. Dan. 7:26.
c. “...that hast a little strength (dynamics…”
i. This church is small with little resources. Jam. 2:5.
d. “...and has kept my word…”
i. The truths of the Faith recovered is kept by the little company. Rev. 12:17; Rev. 14:12.
e. “...and hast not denied my name…”
i. The Father’s name in fact is engraved in their forehead. Rev. 14:1.
10. Exegesis of Rev. 3:9.
a. “...the synagogue of Satan which say they are Jews and are not, but do lie…”
i. A Jew is (True Jews are) spiritually speaking, the true church of God which in the time of Philadelphia are Commandment keeping people who look for the coming of Christ (that is, True Seventh-day Adventists Christians).(Thusia SDA). Rom. 2:28,29; Rev. 12: 17; Rev. 14:12; Rev. 16:15.
ii. Therefore false Jews are Seventh-day Adventists who , while nominally being Seventh-day Adventists have denied the faith. Ps. 50:16-20.
iii. These false Jews are Seventh-day Adventists who by their unholy way of living deny the coming of Christ, and oppose those true Seventh-day Adventists (Thusians) who live as people who expect Christ to come. Matt. 24:42-51.
b. “...I shall make them come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee.”
i. Those who come to worship at the saints feet come to see their nakedness at the end, while they admit that the remnant were right. Rev. 16:15.
ii. These are SDA’S that apostatize.
“As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third angel’s message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon their position, and join the ranks of the opposition. By uniting with the world and partaking of its spirit, they have come to view matters in nearly the same light; and when the test is brought, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side,” Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pg. 608.
iii. “You think, that those who worship before the saints feet, will at last be saved. Here I must differ with you; for God shew me that this class were professed Adventists, who had fallen away, and ‘crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.’ And in the ‘hour of temptation’, which is yet to come, to show out every one’s true character, they will know that they are forever lost; and overwhelmed with anguish of spirit, they will bow at the saint’s feet.” Ellen G. White, in, A Word to the Little Flock, pg. 12.
11. Exegesis of Rev. 3:10.
a. “...thou has kept the word of my patience…”
i. This is the patience of the saints in keeping God’s final revelation even though tried. Rev. 12;17; Rev. 14:12.
b. “...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.”
i. The hour of temptation that comes upon all the world is the mark of the beast. Rev. 13:11-17.
ii. To be kept from the hour of temptation means that the church in the Philadelphian state of faithfulness will not suffer the retribution of those who receive the mark of the beast, because they (the Philadelphians) did not receive the mark. Rev. 14: 9,10,12; Rev. 17:14.
12. Exegesis of Rev. 3:11.
a. “...I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”
i. The Philadelphian church goes right down to the second coming of Christ, they are thus to hold fast or empower (or make stronger) what Faith they have. Rev. 16:15; 2 Pet. 3:18.
ii. This endurance shall ensure them their crown of righteousness at the second coming. 2 Tim. 4:7,8.
13. Exegesis of Rev. 3:12.
a. “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out…”
i. The church is the temple of God. 1 Cor. 3:16,17; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:19-22.
ii. To be made a pillar means that the last church, members, who are faithful are so much sealed that they are pillars in the church. 1 Tim. 3:15.
iii. It is in the judgment that one is finally and irreversibly made a member or pillar of the church of God, by a declaration. Rev. 22:11; Rev. 19:7,8; Gal. 5:5,6; Rom. 2:13,16.
b. “...I shall write upon him the name of my God…”
i. This happens at the conversion of the man. Heb. 8: 10; 2 Tim. 2:19.
ii. But the finality of it in Rev. 3:12, is the declaring of it so in a final settled way in the judgment. Rev. 22: 4; Heb. 8:11,12; Rom. 2:13,16.
c. “...and the name of the city of my God which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God…”
i. This is the new holy city to whom Christ is married as a symbol of marriage to the church. Rev. 21:2; Matt. 22:1-14; Rev. 21:9-11.
ii. This is a symbol of the finality of those who are to inhabit the new Jerusalem forever which is finalized by the judgment. Jam. 2:8-12; Rev. 21:7; Rev. 22:14,15.
d. “...and I will write upon him my new name.”
i. What new name Jesus is represented as having?
1. His name is called the “Word of God…” Rev. 19:13.
2. His name is called “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Rev. 19:16.
ii. So Jesus’ new name in the victorious saved church is the same as saying the Word of God dwells eternally in them. This is the declaration of the Judgment. Rev. 21:1-7; Rev. 22:4.
iii. It is also saying that Jesus is their King and Lord forever. This is the declaration of the Judgment. Rev. 22:3-5.
14. We must understand and keep these things that has been shown us. Rev. 3:13.
15. A summary of the basic points about the church of Philadelphia shows us:
a. They are the church that has learned about the second apartment, heavenly sanctuary judgment, and keep this recovered Faith.
b. They have little means.
c. They have kept the recovered Faith and glorified God’s name.
d. They will be acknowledged by false brethren to be the true church of God.
e. They will be protected during the time of the seven last plagues because they did not accept the mark of the beast.
16. Thus the church that maintains the state of the Philadelphia age will go on to the end, develop the 144000 and see Jesus coming in great power, Any other church state and age that comes and follow will be a backsliding from Philadelphia, and must be restored to that state to be saved.
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