빌라델비아(Philadelphia) 는 소아시아 7교회 중 하나이다. 이름의 뜻은 '형제 사랑'이다.
계시록에 등장하는 일곱 교회중 유일하게 책망을 받지 않고 칭찬만 받는 교회로 겉으로 보기에는 작은 능력을 가졌지만,
인내의 말씀을 지키고 주님의 이름을 배반하지 않았다.
여기서 등장하는 다윗의 열쇠는
Eliakim (son of Hilkiah) 의 성경내용을 인용하였다.
7 “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David , he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
8 “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.
9 Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
11 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there 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 my own new name.
13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
각주
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