Revelation 2:27-28

'He shall rule them with a rod of iron;

·        To rule with a scepter of iron, is not to rule with a harsh and tyrannical sway, but with power that is firm and invincible.  (Barnes)

·        He shall restrain vice by the strictest administration of justice; and those who finally despise the word and rebel shall be broken and destroyed, so as never more to be able to make head against the truth. (AC)

They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’ –

·        The same idea is here expressed in another form, but indicating more particularly the ease with which it would be done. The word rendered "dash them in pieces" means to break in pieces as an earthen vessel,  (Barnes)

·        Those that will not quietly submit to thee, shall be crushed and destroyed by thee. (Wesley)

As I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star.

·                     Jesus is the morning star (Rev. 22:16). This promise speaks of increased revelation of Jesus and deeper relationship with Him. The morning star is the brightest star in the sky (planet Venus) seen just before the dawning of a new day.

Psalm 2:7-9  ….You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.

 

Isaiah 30:14  And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel….

Malachi 4:1 For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.  And the day which is coming shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts.

Revelation 2:26

“And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations –

·        We must maintain our obedience in this until the end of our life

·        The reward for resisting immorality is to reign in Jesus’ millennial kingdom (Lk. 19:11-27; Rev. 3:21). Each believer has a different measure of eternal rewards.


1 King 6:12  ….if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My word with you, which I spoke to your father David.

Psalm 119:101  I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word.

Revelation 2:25

“But hold fast what you have till I come.

·        It takes diligence for a leadership team to hold fast in proclaiming and insisting on purity among those involved in their ministry. It is not automatic.

 

·        The church need to hold fast to what they knew to be true and to cut themselves off from wrong things, whatever it cost, they had to hold fast (DP)

 

 

 Job 27:6  My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go…

           Isaiah 13:9  Behold, the day of the LORD comes….

Revelation 2:24

“Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden.

·        John referred to Jezebel’s doctrine as the deep things of Satan. In other words, her false teaching on grace that promoted immorality and idolatry without any fear of God’s judgment is one expression of the depths of satanic deception.

1 Chronicles 21:1  Now satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

Zech 3:1  Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the LORD, and satan standing at his right hand to oppose him.

Revelation 2:23

“I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts.  And I will give to each one of you according to your words.

·        Jesus warned of killing her children or those who followed her teaching. 

 

·        Jesus wants the Church to know of His zeal to free His people from immorality. He said they all shall know when He casts

 

1 Samuel 16:7  …Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him.  For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

Jeremiah 17:10  I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind.  Even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Revelation 2:21-22

“And I have her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.

“Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.

·         Believers are sometimes made sick and even die in context to God’s discipline (judgment) on immorality. God’s discipline includes Satan being permitted to make the unrepentant sick (1 Cor. 5:1-5; 11:30-32).

·         Her bed of sin would become a bed of sickness, and her partners and her children would go down with her (DP)

Ezekiel 14:6  Thus says the Lord GOD, “Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.”

Jeremiah 3:8  “Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery…..

Revelation 2:20

 “Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

·        Jesus’ correction is not rejection. He corrected three churches in the seven letters.

·        She taught “liberty in grace” in context to attending idol feasts which involved immorality. Immorality is at the top of almost every list of sins in the NT and is emphasized in Revelation as one of Satan’s primary strategies in the end times (Rev. 9:21; 14:8; 17:1-4; 18:2-4, 9-10; 19:2; 21:8).

Exodus 34:15  lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice…

1 Kings 21:23  And concerning Jezebel the LORD also spoke, saying, “The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezereel.”