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Revelation Lecture 6

I WISH YOU WERE EITHER COLD OR HOT

Revelation 3:7-22

Key Verse 3:15

1. What does Jesus mean when he says, “What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open” (7)? What might “little strength” mean (8)? What does Jesus commend the church in Philadelphia for?
2. What does it mean that they will fall down at the believers’ feet and acknowledge that Jesus has loved them (9)? What does Jesus mean by promising, “I will also keep you from the hour of trial” (10)?
3. What does it mean to “hold on to what you have” (11)? What do Jesus’ promises to make the victorious person “a pillar in the temple of my God” and to write three names on them mean (12)?
4. Why does Jesus introduce himself as “the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation” (14)? What does it mean that the Laodicean church was “neither cold nor hot,” but “lukewarm” (15–16)? What will Jesus do to those who are lukewarm?
5. Why does Jesus describe them as “wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked,” even though they considered themselves rich (17)? What do the “gold refined in the fire,” “white clothes,” and “salve” symbolize (18)?
6. What does Jesus mean when he says, “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock” (19-20)? What does Jesus’ promise to “eat with that person, and they with me” reveal about? What does Jesus promise to those who are victorious (21)?