And look you're gonna read Revelation 2 & 3 a lot differently now
Sometimes we read Revelation 2 & 3 we're just like we got to get through this because we want to get to the good stuff
Well, this is preparing you for the good stuff. Okay
Look at verse number seven and to the angel the church of Philadelphia, right?
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. 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 has kept my word and has not denied my name now
Where are they
Go to 1st Corinthians chapter 10
When he says I've set before thee an open door
Where are they?
Because remember the paramount theme of two and three is tribulation its temptation, right?
Look at 1st Corinthians chapter 10 in verse 13. It says here there hath no temptation
Taking you but such as is common to man
But God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you're able but will with the temptation
Also make a way to escape
That ye may be able to bear it
So in Revelation 3 when he says I have an open door for thou hast a little strength
What is he saying when you're in the furnace of affliction? Don't worry. I'm making a way to escape
That's what he's stating in context. What are we talking about Revelation chapter 3? What is this referring to the lot those last 75 days, right?
when that
idolatrous
Image of the beast is set up, right?
verse 14 wherefore my dearly beloved
flee
from
idolatry
Like I don't get it well look what it says in verse 15 I speak as to wise men judge ye what I say
You don't get it you got to get it
If you know it, you know it. Oh
That's just kind of like coincidence. Well, let me read you from Matthew 24
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place
Whoso readeth let them understand, you know, like the wise people
Then let them which be in Judea flee
into the mountains
So look 1st Corinthians 10 obviously has a modern-day application for us to understand
There's no temptation taking it because it's just common to man. God is faithful
He'll make a way to escape but it's foreshadowing the greatest temptation that we're gonna face
Knowing that when we're going through those 75 days of great tribulation, don't worry
God has made a way for you to escape and just remember flee from idolatry
fleet to the mountains
How am I gonna do it? Well, don't worry. He made a way for you to escape. Oh
Don't worry, the open door is already there
But the open door is only there for those who are keeping the word of his patience who have not denied his name
So guess what those lame Christians who don't want to witness who don't want to go soul winning
The lame Christians who don't who badmouth soul winning who don't know
But we just believe in lifestyle evangelism
you know, we just believe in in track drops and door hangers and being a
You know a mailman once a week
Yeah, that's that's you're denying his name
So guess what this is how you survive the great tribulation
You keep the word of his patience and he'll make a way for you to escape. He'll leave that door open for you
And he'll tell you flee
Flee from idolatry flee from the image of the beast just run