In the letter to the church in Philadelphia in Revelation 3:7-13, we read the second of two letters that contains only praise and encouragement from Jesus for the church. Although the church in Philadelphia looked weak, it was actually strong, because it had done the one simple thing that all churches and all Christians must do: keep Christ’s word. Jesus’ instruction to them (and to us) was correspondingly simple: hold on to what you have.
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Between the establishment of a relationship with God and the final resurrection, Christians need to press on to know Christ and be more like...
The construction of the tabernacle foreshadowed greater dwellings of God, which he keeps building by plundering the nations.