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Summary
Revelation 3 contains John’s letters to.
John uses the Old Testament in a number of places in these letters.
Some have been discussed in earlier episodes of this series on the use of the Old Testament in the book of Revelation.
Our discussion in this episode, Part 1 of Revelation 3, focuses on phrases not yet discussed (e.g., “they will walk with me in white” … “white garments” … the “Book of Life” … “hour of trial”).
Part 2 will be a concentrated look at save for Rev 3:7’s reference to the “key of David” in conjunction with Rev 1:18, the “keys of Death and Hades.”
Introduction
This’ll be Part 1 today.
I might as well just telegraph what we’re going to do.
So in this episode, we’re going to hit everything in Revelation 3 that’s Old Testament pertinent that we haven’t hit before.
You know, in these letters there’s been overlap of content.
This will be no different.
But I’m going to skip the “keys of David” in Revelation 3:7.
And that’s what’s going to be Part 2. Because we’re going to take that verse and then loop back to Revelation 1:18 (the keys of Death and Hades) and devote a full episode to this “keys” stuff—this “keys” language.
So hence we’re going to have two parts.
Because there’s just a lot going on with respect to the “keys” thing … I’ll just tip it off a little bit.
It’s going to be directly connected to Christ’s descent to the underworld—the 1 Peter 3 thing—and the use of Enoch and the Watchers and all that kind of stuff.
So that whole “keys” thing is going to be part of that.
So that needs its own episode for sure.
So this time, we’re just going to hit the other stuff that we have not touched on before in Revelation 3.
So Part 1 is Old Testament in Revelation 3 everywhere else but that.
So I’m going to start here by reading the first letter here, really the first five or six verses.
You’ve got three churches here.
This is the letter to the church in Sardis that the chapter starts out with.
So let’s just jump in here.
I’m reading ESV.
Rev3: 1-6
So that’s the first six verses, and really aimed at the church in Sardis.
And what I want to focus on for our purposes… If you’re just a listener jumping in here, we’re focused on the use of the Old Testament in the book of Revelation.
So we’re not doing a verse-by-verse commentary on Revelation.
We’re not talking about End Times systems or anything like that.
If some of that becomes relevant because of the use of the Old Testament, we’ll hit that when we come to it.
But our focus is on the impact of the Old Testament in this book.
So in verses 4 and 5, we get a couple of phrases here that have hooks back into the Old Testament.
“They will walk with me in white,” and then this reference to “white garments.”
And you also get a reference to white garments later in chapter 3 in verse 18.
Now if you actually did a search in the book of Revelation, white shows up a lot.
It’s a prominent color in the book of Revelation.
In the New Testament there are 26 occurrences of this term λευκός (leukos)—white.
Sixteen of them are in the book of Revelation, so well over half.
Eight of the 16 refer to clothing.
And the other 8 of those 16 refer to some aspect of the heavenly realm (in the book of Revelation).
So the connection, most scholars think here, is Daniel 11:35 or Daniel 12:1, and maybe verse 10.
I’m going to go to Daniel 12, just so you can catch the drift here.
It says here… Well, let’s go back to 11:35 first.
Might as well hit them all.
So 11:35, we have this language here.
It’s talking about the holy ones or the faithful ones in Daniel 11.
And it says here:
So you have this “time of the end,” “appointed time” connection with being “made white.”
Okay?
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