[MississippiMan]

Don't forget to use that verse in "context". While you're doing that you might think about who could be represented by the church of Philadelphia (and who might not be represented).

What is your explanation of context?

Thanks...

MM

[One4Indictment]

Oh, and one more thing. In Revelation 10:7 where in speaks of the mystery of God being "accomplished" or "finished", doesn't mean that's the end of everything. The Bowl Judgements still remain.

Now Revelation doesn't state definitively when the Tribulation actually begins, but if you read through the Seal and Trumpet Judgements, there is definately some tribulation in those Judgements. Therefore, I tend to hold more toward a mid-Tribulation Rapture.

[Mark was here]

Mark 13:22
For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if [it were] possible, even the elect.
V 23
But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things
V 24
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
V 25
And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
V 26
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
V 27
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

after that tribulation
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds,
from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven

[the-ironically-named-proverbs2]

#15

context:

Rev 3:7-10
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(5083) thee from(1537) the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

First of all, out of the seven churches, why does this apply to us? Why not this?:

Rev 3:14-19
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Second, look at the greek words translated "keep...from". Here they are (the same greek words) used in the same way in another place in the Bible:

John 17:14-18
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep(5083) them from(1537) the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.