Elke brief eindigt met deze woorden.
Christenen dit moet je aanacht hebben!
"Hij die een oor heeft, laat hem
horen wat de Geest tot de gemeenten te zeggen heeft"
- Openbaring 2:7 'To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.'
- Openbaring 2:11 'He who overcomes, will not be hurt by the second death.'
- Openbaring. 2:17 'To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.'
- Openbaring. 2:26-28 'He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father; and I will give him the morning star.'
- Openbaring. 3:5 'He who overcomes, will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.'
- Openbaring. 3:12 '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 on 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.'
- Openbaring. 3:21 'He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
We'd better know
what 'overcome'
means. Click
here to go to the the word study.
From the word study
The word clearly means that the enemy is overpowered, defeated. But it
did not come easy, through suffering or after a long or hard fight. The
enemy is all that is evil. It did cost Jesus His life. It will cost
His followers tribulation.
It is a dangerous presumption to think that before the great tribulation
all the believers will safely be 'raptured' into safety of heaven.
The churches of all times have experienced hardships. The churches that
enter into the last tribulation have to go the same way. Jesus speaks
about that time in Luke 21:28 "But when
these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads,
because your redemption is drawing near."
Luke 21:34-36 "Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap; [35] for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth. [36] "But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man."
In Luke 21 There is a swift in the conversation. Jesus starts out to talk about the tempel. Predicting the destruction of Jerusalem and the even describing Jesus is responding to local things
You better be PREPARED than surpised, make sure you will OVERCOME and ENDURE TO THE END.
