REVELATION 3:7-13
“And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which
ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD,
saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes” (Ezk.36:23).
“And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary
shall be in the midst of them for evermore” (Ezk.37:28).
g159 In the New Testament the picture is reversed, and the Jews are seen coming to the church and
worshipping with the church. This means that the Jews worship the Lord Jesus Christ.
“I will call them [the Gentiles] my people, which were not my people; and her be-
loved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was
said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the liv-
ing God” (Ro.9:25-26).
Thought 1. The scene will be glorious: Israel (the Jews) worshipping the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, right
along with Gentile believers. This is the promise of the Lord to the church of Philadelphia.
Note this: the promise applies to all churches that are alive and faithful. Some of the persecutors will be-
lieve and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. They will be won to Christ and worship right along with
the believers whom they originally persecuted. This is a great promise made to the church that is faithful and
alive. The task of the church is to continue to be faithful to Christ, bearing testimony and witness to Him.
“All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kin-
dreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is
the governor among the nations” (Ps.22:27-28).
b. Believers shall also be vindicated before all the persecutors who reject Jesus Christ. Scripture clearly states
that every knee shall bow before the feet of the Lord and confess Him to be Lord.
“For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue
shall confess to God” (Ro.14:11).
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above
every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
things in earth, and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Ph.2:9-11).
“Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all
nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest”
(Rev.15:4).
“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is
none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and
shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear” (Is.45:22-23).
2. Believers shall experience a great deliverance. They shall be delivered from the hour of trial that is coming upon the
earth. This refers to the great tribulation that is coming upon the earth in the end time, a period of trial that will far exceed
any trial the world has ever known. Christ Himself said:
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time,
no, nor ever shall be” (Mt.24:21).
The great tribulation will involve two terrible forces falling upon the earth:
g159 There will be the persecution by the antichrist.
“And it was given unto him [the antichrist] to make war with the saints, and to over-
come them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all
that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life
of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Rev.13:7-8).
g159 There will be the awful judgment of God against all unbelievers who reject His Son Jesus Christ.
“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord
cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all
that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly commit-
ted, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him” (Jude
14-15).
“And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia;
Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous
are his judgments for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her
fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Al-
leluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever” (Rev.19:1-3).
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