Revelation 2:29

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

• ·        It is a proverbial expression, implying that the highest attention should be given to what was spoken  (Barnes)

• ·        Anything serious, and of great importance, was delivered; and which required attention, and was not easily understood:  (Gills)

Isaiah 48:16  “Come near to Me, hear this:  I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I was there.  And now the Lord GOD and His Spirit have sent Me.”

Zechariah 7:12  “Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets.  Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

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.