Revelation 3:13

“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)

• ·        The demand for universal attention (MH)

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 3:12

 “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more, 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 I will write on him My new name.

• ·        Not a pillar to support the temple (heaven needs no such props), but a monument of the free and powerful grace of God, a monument that shall never be defaced nor removed (MH)

• ·        The new name of Christ, the Mediator, the Redeemer, the captain of our salvation; by this it will appear under whose banner this conquering believer had enlisted, under whose conduct he acted, by whose example he was encouraged, and under whose influence he fought the good fight, and came off victorious. (MH)

Psalm 87:5, 6  And of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her; and the Most High Himself shall establishe her.”  The LORD will record, when He registers the peoples:  “This one was born there.”

Isaiah 62:2  The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory.  You shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD will name.

Revelation 3:11

“Behold, I am coming quickly!  Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.

• ·        See, I am just a coming to relieve them under the trial, to reward their fidelity, and to punish those who fall away; they shall lose that crown which they once seemed to have a right to, which they hoped for, and pleased themselves with the thoughts of. (MH)

• ·        The persevering Christian shall win the prize from backsliding professors, who once stood fair for it.’’ (MH)

Psalm 89:39  You have renounced the covenant of Your servant; you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

Lamentations 5:16  The crown has fallen from your head.  Woe to us, for we have sinned!