Revelation 3

The Letter to Sardis

1 “Write to the angel # 3:1 Or messenger, also in vv. 7,14 of the church in Sardis: Thus says the one who has the seven spirits of God # 3:1 Rv 1:4; 4:5; 5:6 and the seven stars: # 3:1 Rv 1:16,20; 2:1 I know your works; # 3:1 Rv 2:2,19; 3:8,15 you have a reputation # 3:1 Or have a name for being alive, but you are dead. # 3:1 Rm 6:11 2Be alert # 3:2 Mt 25:13; 26:40–41; Ac 20:31; 1Co 16:13; 1Pt 5:8; 2Pt 3:10 and strengthen # 3:2 Other mss read guard what remains, which is about to die, # 3:2 Or strengthen who remain, who are about to die for I have not found your works complete before my God. 3Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come # 3:3 Other mss add upon you like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come upon you. # 3:3 Mt 24:42–44; Mk 13:32–37; Lk 12:35–40; 1Th 5:1–11; Rv 16:15 4But you have a few people # 3:4 Lit few names in Sardis who have not defiled # 3:4 Or soiled their clothes, # 3:4 Zch 3:3–4; 2Co 7:1; Rv 14:4 and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

5 “In the same way, the one who conquers # 3:5 1Jn 2:13–14; 4:4; 5:4–5; Rv 2:7,11,17,26; 3:12,21 will be dressed in white clothes, # 3:5 Mt 17:2; Rv 3:18; 4:4 and I will never erase his name from the book of life # 3:5 Ex 32:32–33; Ps 69:28; Dn 12:1; Rv 13:8; 17:8; 20:12,15; 21:27 but will acknowledge his name before my Father and before his angels. # 3:5 Mt 10:32; Lk 12:8

6 “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen # 3:6 Mt 11:15; 13:9,43; Lk 8:8; 14:35 to what the Spirit says # 3:6 Ac 8:29; 10:19; 11:12; 13:2; 21:11; 28:25; 1Tm 4:1; Heb 3:7; 10:15; Rv 14:13; 22:17 to the churches.

The Letter to Philadelphia

7 “Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia: Thus says the Holy One, the true one, # 3:7 1Jn 5:20; Rv 6:10; 19:11 the one who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and who closes and no one opens: # 3:7 Is 22:22; Mt 16:19 8I know your works. Look, I have placed before you an open door that no one can close because you have but little power; yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. # 3:8 Ac 14:27; 1Co 16:9; 2Co 2:12; Col 4:3 9Note this: I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying — I will make them come and bow down at your feet, # 3:9 Is 45:14; 49:23; 60:14; 1Co 14:25 and they will know that I have loved you. # 3:9 Is 43:4 10Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing # 3:10 Lk 8:13; Heb 3:8; 1Pt 4:12 that is going to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth. # 3:10 Rv 6:10; 8:13; 11:10; 13:8,14; 17:8 11I am coming soon. # 3:11 Rv 22:7,12,20 Hold on to what you have, # 3:11 Rv 2:25 so that no one takes your crown. # 3:11 1Co 9:25; 1Th 2:19; 2Tm 4:8; Jms 1:12; 1Pt 5:4

12 “The one who conquers I will make a pillar # 3:12 1Kg 7:21; 2Ch 3:17; Jr 1:18; Gl 2:9 in the temple of my God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God — the new Jerusalem, # 3:12 Ezk 48:35; Gl 4:26; Heb 12:22; Rv 21:2 which comes down out of heaven from my God — and my new name. # 3:12 Rv 2:17; 7:3; 14:1; 22:4

13 “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

The Letter to Laodicea

14 “Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: Thus says the Amen, # 3:14 2Co 1:20 the faithful and true witness, the originator # 3:14 Or beginning, or ruler,# 3:14 Mk 10:6; 13:19; Jn 1:1–5; Col 1:18; 2Pt 3:4 of God’s creation: 15I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. 16So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit # 3:16 Or spit you out of my mouth. 17For you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ # 3:17 Hs 12:8; Zch 11:5; 1Co 4:8 and you don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. 18I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich, # 3:18 Zch 13:9; 1Pt 1:7 white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed, # 3:18 Gn 2:25; Is 20:4; Ezk 23:29; Rv 16:15 and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see. 19As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. # 3:19 Heb 12:26 So be zealous and repent. 20See! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. # 3:20 Lk 24:29–30

21 “To the one who conquers I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, # 3:21 Mt 19:28; 2Tm 2:12; Rv 20:4 just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

22 “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.”

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Hisgalus 3

1And to the malach (angel) of the Kehillah in Sardis, write: These things says the One having the sheva ruchot of Hashem and the shevat hakokhavim (seven stars):

I have da'as of your ma'asim, that nominally you are Chai (Alive) but you are [spiritually] niftar (deceased). 2Be shomer and regarding the things remaining and the things on the point of mavet, be chazakim (strong ones). For, I have not found your ma'asim having been shleimim (complete) before Elohai. 3Therefore, let there be zikaron (remembrance) of what has been handed over to you and what you heard, and be shomer and make teshuva. Therefore, if you are not shomer, I will come as a ganav, and never would you have da'as at what sha'ah (hour, time) I will come upon you. 4But you have a few shemot (names) in Sardis which did not soil their kaftans. It is they that will have their halakhah with me in lavan (white), wearing a kittel, because they are walking worthily. 5The one who wins the nitzachon (victory), in similar manner, will be clothed in lavan (white), and never will I erase him, the [ba'al] shem [tov], from the Sefer Chayyim. And I will make hoda'ah (acknowledgement) of the shem of him before Elohim Avi and before the malachim (angels) of Him. 6The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot.

7And to the malach of the Kehillah in Philadelphia, write: These things says HaKadosh, HaNe'eman, the One having the mafte'ach (key) of Dovid, the One opening and no one will shut, the one shutting and no one opens:#3:7 Isa 22:22

8I have da'as of your ma'asim. Hinei, I have placed in front of you a delet (door), having been opened, which no one is able to shut: because you have a little ko'ach (power) and have been shomer over my dvar (word), 9And did not make hakhchashah (denial) of ha-Shem of me. Hinei, I may make some of the Shul#3:9 deluded by of the Adversary, the ones declaring themselves to be Bnei Brit, and are not [of the Brit Chadasha] but speak sheker; hinei, I will make them come and prostrate themselves before your feet and then they will have da'as that I have ahavah for you.#3:9 Isa 49:23; 43:4 10Because you were shomer over my dvar of savlanut (patient endurance), I will also be shomer over you, guarding you from the sha'at hanisayon (hour of trial) about to come upon the Olam Hazeh, to try all the ones of the inhabited world, all the ones dwelling upon the earth. 11I am coming quickly; hold fast to what you have, that no one takes your atarah (diadem, crown). 12The one who wins the nitzachon (victory) I will make an ammud (pillar) in the Beis Hamikdash of Elohai and never may he go out of it#3:12 Ps 23:6 and I will write upon him ha-Shem of Elohai and ha-Shem of the Ir Hakodesh of Elohai — the Yerushalayim HaChadasha descending down out of Shomayim from Elohai — and ha-Shem HeChadash of me (my New Name).#3:12 Ezek 48:35 13The one having an ear, let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot.

14And to the malach of the Kehillah in Laodicea, write: These things says the Omein, the Ed HaNe'eman (the Faithful Witness) who is also HaEmes, the Reshit of the Bri'at Hashem,#3:14 i.e., Hashemʼs eternal Chochmah, Prov 8:22; Ps 33:6; Prov 30:4

15I have da'as of your ma'asim, that you are neither kar (cold) nor kham (hot). Would that you were kar or kham! 16But because you are posher (lukewarm) and neither kham nor kar, I am about to spew you out of my mouth. 17Because you say, I am ashir (rich) and have become wealthy and in nothing am I nitzrach (needy), and you do not have da'as that you are the one wretched and pitiful and poor and blind and naked,#3:17 Hos 12:8 18I counsel you to buy from me zahav (gold) having been purified by eish (fire) — that you may be oisher (rich) — and a kittel, that you may be clothed in lavan (white), and that the bushah (shame) of your nakedness not be made nikar (evident), and eye salve to rub on the eynayim (eyes) of you that you may see. 19Those for whom I have ahavah I reprove and discipline. Be kham (hot), therefore, in kanous (zeal) for Hashem and make teshuva.#3:19 Dt 8:5; Prov 3:12 20Hinei, I have stood at the delet (door) DOFEK#3:20 Song 5:2 (knocking); if anyone hears my kol and opens the delet, indeed I will come in to him and we, the two of us, will dine together at the BEIT HAYAYIN.#3:20 “Banquet Hall,” Song 2:4 21The one who wins the nitzachon (victory), I will give to him to sit with me on the Kes (Throne) of me, as I also won the nitzachon and sat with Elohim Avi on the Kes (throne) of him. 22The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot.

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