Dave M
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Revelation 3
To the Church in Sardis
4But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white. 5Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot outb
To the Church in Laodicea
17You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. 18I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. 19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Seems these people are part of the church, and garments represent this, but it seems most of soiled there calling (garments), or soiled there walk with Jesus, They have sinned they have backslid. This is what soiled garments look like to me. SO these are Christians saved?, they have had soiled there garment, but they have not been walking with the Lord
Notice both cases Jesus is speaking to believers, I do believe that garments represent in some way or fashion as being a believer. But he has a rebuke for them, and if they repent it is similar to washing their garment.
The Point is I do not believe you can have a garment if you are not a believer. You can not soil a garment if you do not have a garment in the first place.
Jesus is preparing the church for the tribulation, as we all have weaknesses and need to be strengthened. He is warning us to repent.
I think in the 7 churches we all represent one of them ourselves with our own life the way we live. Just look at the church of Laodicea, that's the main line church in America, we all know many people that fall into that category.
Revelation 7
9After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
13Then one of the elders addressed me: “These in white robes,” he asked, “who are they, and where have they come from?”
14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.”
So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb
Few things we see a great multitude standing before the throne of God that came from the tribulation, I wonder why it stressed from every nation, when today so many say the tribulation is for the Jews only.
Another interesting thing is they washed their robes in the blood of the lamb. So it sounds like they had a robe that was maybe at one time white (assumption) but it got dirty (they sinned) and now they listened to Jesus and repented and were made clean and worthy to stand in front of the throne of God.
This looks like a people who are already Christians that need to be refined Just like Jesus says in Revelation 3 19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
So when I see a great multitude standing before the throne I do not see it as new christian who came to christ during the tribulation, I see it as old christians that needed to be refined, for the bible says a great falling aways happens at end times
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
