Revelation Chapter 3 ( Philadelphia )

The church at Philadelphia is the only church that did not get a warning to repent from any errors like the other churches.  So it is important to notice what they were doing that pleased Jesus.

Jesus is:
He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts, and who shuts and no one opens.

Praise:
Jesus knows their deeds and he has put before them an opened door that no one can shut, because they have a little power, and have kept Jesus' word, and have not denied His name.
         All this is worthy to note and you might understand it this way.  There is power in the name of Jesus and they have not denied Jesus name.  Jesus' word is the sword of the spirit and they have kept His word.  These two things are what gives them Divine intervention from heaven and that is why they have this open door into the hevenly realm.  This is a faithfull church that really puts their trust in Jesus.

There is an interjection in this letter that tells the church at Philadelphia that there is a synagogue of Satan who are claiming to be Jews but are no really and lie.  Jesus will make  these imposters to bow down at their feet and know that He has loved them.  These were probably the type of Jewish leadership that Jesus had to deal with when he was here.  When here, Jesus referred to them as white washed tombs.  If they had really been Jewish, then they they would have understood that Jesus was the Messiah that was foretold by the prophets.  Now, because of what they will see Jesus do in the mist of his believers, that will show that Jesus loves them, they will come and bow at their feet knowing that Jesus is the promised Messiah.  In Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapter 11, verse 11, "I say then, they did not stumple as to fall did they?  May it never be!  But by their transgression salvation came to the Gentles, to make them jealeous."  Satan had them blinded, but now they see.

Promise:
Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell upon the earth.
          The believers are kept from this hour and they will be with Jesus when He returns.  In Paul's letter to the Romans, in Chapter 5, verse 9, he writes, "Much more then having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him."  also, in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, Chapter 1, verse 10, Paul writes," and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come."  I always like to interject the reason for the wrath of God, because people percieve it as being unkind.  In Chapter 11 of Revelations, verses 17 and 18, it says, " We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and hast begun to reign.  And the nations were enraged, and Thy wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to Thy bond-servants the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear Thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the earth."  So the reason why Jesus' wrath will come is to destroy those who were destroying the earth.  The believers will be with Jesus when He returns.  In Revelation Chapter 19, verses 11 and 14, it says this, "And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Fathfull and True; and in righteousness He Judges and wages war....... And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses."

Jesus tells Philadelphia, I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, in order that no one take your crown."

Overcomers reward:
"He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and He will not go out from it anymore; and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God and My new name."
        The new Jeruselem is the heavenly kingdom that Jesus said that He was going away to prepare and that he would come again to take the believers to where he was.  Jesus said this in the Gospel of John, Chapter 14, verse 3.   The new Jerusalem is described in Revelation Chapter 21, verses 10 - 27.