what is the second death in revelation 2:11

The contents of the epistle Revelation 2:12-17 are as follows: (1) A reference, as is usual in these epistles, to some attribute of Him who addressed them, suited to inspire respect, and adapted to a state of things existing in the church, Revelation 2:12. A reproof of the church for tolerating some who held false and pernicious doctrines - doctrines such as were taught by Balaam, and the doctrines of the Nicolaitanes. You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." Fosdick said that the great truth of Christianity is that "no man need stay the way he is." The contents of the epistle Revelation 2:12-17 are as follows: (2)A statement, in the usual form, that he was thoroughly acquainted with the state of the church; that he saw all their difficulties; all that there was to commend, and all that there was to reprove, Revelation 2:13. It was a free city and it knew what loyalty was. ]. So, here is now first of all the indication that the Catholic Church would exist right up until the coming of Jesus Christ and the rapture of the church, because he talks of them being allowed to go into the Great Tribulation. (iii) There is imprisonment. These were associations for mutual profit and pleasure of people employed in certain trades. That means he holds the whole Church in his hand. The Temple area possessed the right of asylum; any criminal was safe if he could reach it. I will accept him and give him a name, which no man knows except him who receives it. Revelation 21:8 explains the second death in the most detail: "The cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars - their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. None the less is it "the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ," even if it consists not of that which ministers directly to the edification of the Christian in his own position, but indirectly as announcing the doom of such as despise God and do their own will in the face of His revelation. The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. Thus grace is always equal to every difficulty. Witness meant so often martyrdom. "THE TEN DAYS" of verse 10 stand, not for a literal "10 days," but for a "DEFINITE, LIMITED PERIOD.". There the Holy Ghost was the only one competent to minister and effectuate such grace according to the counsels of God, and in the ordering of His love. But the drift is plain enough where the conscience is not blunted. The Christians might be left in peace for a long time, but at any moment a governor might acquire a fit of administrative energy or the mob might set up a shout to find the Christians--and then the storm burst. It is not to make known what was in Christ before all worlds, but to disclose the great facts in which God was about to maintain the glory of the First-begotten, when He introduced Him into the world. He may not be described in His relationships to us, but He who is described is the one that we love. Because, when we take hold of a thing, we seldom take hold of the whole of it but of part of it. If I am a servant, I ought to behave like a servant. While, therefore, he had all that is properly Christian, he also had very special communications of another character for saints who will follow us at the end of this age. Whoever is victorious will not be harmed by the second death. Sir William Ramsay describes their teaching thus: "It was an attempt to effect a reasonable compromise with the established usages of the Graeco-Roman society and to retain as many as possible of those usages in the Christian system of life." The second death is simply being separated in eternity from what God originally wanted and planned for humanity. They were all anticipating the Lord to return immediately to establish the kingdom. He is the last, for all things are made for him, and he will be the Judge of all. The noun gune ( G1135) --the nominative of the word of which gunaika ( G1135) is the accusative form--not only means "woman" but also "wife"; and if with these manuscripts we read ten ( G3588) gunaika G1135) sou ( G4675) Iezabel ( G2403) , the phrase will mean: "your wife Jezebel.". He is God. The earnest toil was there; the gallant endurance was there; the unimpeachable orthodoxy was there; but the love was gone. Must a Christian be so very different? For all the travellers and the trade, from the Cayster and the Maeander Valleys, from Galatia, from the Euphrates and from Mesopotamia, Ephesus was the highway to Rome. It is not a new thing for God thus to set out the strongest contrasts by the same inspired writer. If that light was ineffectual, if there was evil mixed with it, the state of the assembly would partake of it. Since our fathers fell asleep all things have continued as they were from the beginning. The Christian motive contained in the victors immunity from a great evil. The reason is that a remnant is now formed. There will be indifference to all that is good; and the only kind of zeal, if there be zeal, will be for what is bad. When that happens, orthodoxy has cost too much. "So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate." Second, it is regularly used of any stately garden. In each letter the Lord addresses "the angel." To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. Of Antipas we know nothing; there is a late legend in Tertullian that he met his death by being slowly roasted to death within a brazen bull. More than once the New Testament insists on the necessity of testing. Christ limits the period of persecution. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love. There is an immense change in turning to the last three churches. Roman governors were divided into two classes--those who had the ius gladii, the right of the sword, and those who had not. (i) The Risen Christ praises their toil. I know your works--I mean your toil and your steadfast endurance, and I know that you cannot bear evil men, and that you have put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and who are not, and have proved them liars. In Ephesus something had gone wrong. It is as if John said: "You call yourselves the assembly of God when, in fact, you are the assembly of the devil." (iv) All these are very lovely and may all be involved in this promise; but we are quite certain that the correct interpretation is this. disaster had befallen it, for then the Lydians had broken in from the east and destroyed it. Nor is this all. The necessary conclusion seems to be this. However the grace of the Lord might act, however He might animate as well as warn, still the address is made directly to His servant John, and not to the church; and even where we have addresses, as we shall find afterwards in the second and third chapters, they are not immediately to the churches, but sent to their angels. The Temple of Artemis was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. They confused Christian liberty with unchristian licence. Now I do recommend highly that you read Foxe's Book of Martyrs to get an insight to the church of Smyrna and the price that these people paid to believe in Jesus Christ. One knows how readily the heart can thus escape from what is really the blessedness of the witness which the Lord has placed in our hands. Here is the word hupomone ( G5281) which we have come upon again and again. Never but here occurs an address to a certain number of assemblies, particularly one so definite and significant symbolically as seven. As John said: "We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is" ( 1 John 3:2). It seems then that we must look elsewhere for the explanation of this phrase. It is a formed and known party of the highest possible pretensions. They were often given a tessera by which they identified themselves as having the right to the free gifts. As to the new name, one of the features of the Old Testament is the giving to a man of a new name to mark a new status. At the same time they fatally compromised Christ by alliance with the world, and there followed the practical return to the world out of which grace had taken the church in order to union with Christ in glory. Suddenly he saw the girl he used to sit beside at school. What lay behind this Nicolaitan perversion of the truth? Smyrna had games which were famous all over Asia. The coast is now "a harbourless line of sandy beach, unapproachable by a ship." We have seen that the Church at Smyrna was battling with difficulties and threatened with worse to come. That first bloom of love that you had.So remember from whence you are fallen. It was not merely the tendency of individuals. But there is more also. (iii) In the ancient law courts white and black stones were used for registering the verdict of juries, black for condemnation, white for acquittal. When the Lord is seen in the vision of chapter 1, these are not the ways in which He is described at all "He that hath the key of David.". There is the tree of life available to each of us through the cross of Jesus Christ, but so many times people choose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of [my] God." It was an assize town. It is another and a remarkable difference. Peter writes his letter to the sojourners throughout the provinces of Asia Minor. It is "he that openeth, and no man shall shut." Further, it often happened that these communal meals were occasions of drunken revelry and slack morality. There is something in the messages of Jesus to the churches to offend everybody, so it is here.I think it is wrong to just bury my head in the sand and say, "Oh, that doesn't exist, or that is terrible, or you shouldn't judge." (c) In Rome a great gladiator was the admired hero of all. Ephesus, The Steps On The Return Journey ( Revelation 2:1-7 Continued). Paul described the Christians at Corinth as being poor yet making many rich ( 2 Corinthians 6:10). Secondly, The suitableness of it. He puts His voucher on the book from the beginning. The godly remnant of Jews, having to do with a special and most fierce but circumscribed tribulation, have only to flee to the mountains in order to escape till Jesus appears in glory, to the confusion of their foes. No doubt Jezebel seemed to many a fine character. "And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest," etc. Thyatira, The Peril Of Compromise ( Revelation 2:18-29 Continued). What did she teach? In Numbers 25:1-5 we find a strange story in which the Israelites were seduced into illegal and sacrilegious unions with Moabite women and into the worship of Baal-peor, a seduction which, if it had not been sternly checked, might have ruined the religion of Israel and destroyed her as a nation. This verse does not tell us much about the second death, only that the way to avoid it is to overcome faithfully. This is the Lord's complaint against them. I know thy works, thy labour, thy patience, and how you can not bear them which are evil ( Revelation 2:2 ): So they really had the gift of discernment going. Polycarp's noble words to his heathen judges who wished him to recant, are well known: "Fourscore and six years have I served the Lord, and He never wronged me, how then can I blaspheme my King and Saviour?" Jesus had warned of the false prophets who are wolves in sheep's clothing ( Matthew 7:15). Satan revives the old Judaizing spirit, at the very time that God re-asserts the true principle of Christian brotherhood, and, above all, makes Christ Himself to be all to His people. (6)The usual call upon all to hear what the Spirit says to the churches, and a promise to those who should overcome, Revelation 2:17. ( Romans 5:16, 18) Adam did not physically die in the instant he sinned, but at that moment, he was brought under eternal condemnation. It was strange that the first thing that her conversion did was to make her run away. And they took up stones to kill Him. Faith sees that the blessed One, the holy and the true, is the same that has the key of David. (4) The letter to Thyatira finishes with a series of great threats and great promises. With a gracious promise to the conquering Christian: He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death,Revelation 2:11; Revelation 2:11. That is to say, Christ holds the Churches in his hand. (2) a statement, in the usual form, that he was thoroughly acquainted with the state of the church; that he saw all their difficulties; all that there was to commend, and all that there was to reprove, Revelation 2:13. This has nothing to do with His presence for us; but after our own delight and thanksgiving have gone forth towards Jesus, the testimony to others most suitably follows the song of praise that had, I may say, involuntarily burst forth at His name. So hang around. "He that overcometh, he shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, and will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. Offensive against Himself, they were wholly opposed in principle to grace. They set up to be more righteous and holy than the rest, whom they denounced as Antinomian because they stood in the true grace of God. (a) The Sadducees believed that after death there was absolutely nothing; the Epicureans held the same doctrine. Religion, therefore, does not come to us with any promise that we shall not die. All day it smoked with the smoke of sacrifices offered to Zeus. He might hold a feast of his friends within the temple precincts. It is not simply clericalism now, nor persons holding the doctrine of Balaam; but a formal state of things, as the symbol of a woman regularly represents. The setting of the city was equally beautiful. "And I gave her space that she should repent; and she will not repent of her fornication. Here we have to remark that Christ is seen in a judicial point of view. Now note, secondly, the Christian motive contained in the victors reception of a great good. John says, "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. Whereas the Ephesian church needed to return to past conditions, this one needed to persevere in what was characteristic of it in the present. The spiritual usage of seven in prophetic scripture cannot be questioned. John tells us that when the Jews said to him that their fathers had eaten manna in the wilderness, so receiving bread, and Jesus said "I am the bread of life" ( John 6:31-35). It was said that the Thracians and the Scythians kept in their homes an urn into which for every happy day they threw a white stone and for every unhappy day a black stone; at the end of their lives the stones were counted, and as the white or the black preponderated, a man was said to have had a wretched or a happy life. The effect went on; the spring was gone. It may seem strange to attribute hatred to the Risen Christ; but two things are to be remembered. Our minds must turn to the words of Jesus to the dying and penitent thief: "Today you will be with me in paradise" ( Luke 23:43). Paul said, "I will show you a more excellent way. God loves His creation. That is what matters. For all that, there was something essential missing. All this combined to make Ephesus a notoriously evil place. This seems to imply His own willingness to die, as indeed He became what did not belong to Him personally, and what in short seemed extraordinarily incongruous with the glorious person that had been already described. (iv) The only reasonable conclusion is that we have no idea who Jezebel was, although we can with certainty trace the kind of person that she was. That is what I want. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." This is not only a word of command, but of efficacy, no, only forbidding slavish fear, but subduing it and furnishing the soul with strength and courage. Revelation 13:9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. The Laodicean picture is, in my judgment, the result of dislike and contempt for the testimony that the Lord had previously raised up. First, it is meant to drive him to fling himself on the grace of God, saying only: "God, be merciful to me a sinner." New King James Version "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. It may be that the Risen Christ is saying that all the enthusiasm has gone out of the religion of the Church of Ephesus. R. H. Charles points out that by far the longest of the seven letters is written to the most unimportant of the seven cities; but its problem was far from being unimportant. You see nothing was said of Ephesus. In the three previous churches it may be noticed, the call to hear is first, because the Lord is still dealing with the general conscience of the church. On the other hand there is kainos ( G2537) , which is new not only in point of time but also in point of quality; nothing like it has ever been made before. The real achievement was to allow the body to wallow in sin and to keep the soul unaffected. Indeed the same remark will be found true of all the use that is made of Old Testament citations and allusions in the Apocalypse. No doubt those who prospered in business because of their compromise with the world were lavish in their liberality. (2.) The phrase "second death" is found only in the book of Revelation, the first time in the letter to the church at Smyrna: "He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death" ( Revelation 2:11 ). He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; , . Inevitably it was a great trading city. We are bound in everything to yield to the best authorities. The allusion is clear to Isaiah 11:1-16, where the seven-fold power of the Holy Ghost in government is described as connected with the person and for the kingdom of the Messiah. It is true that Paul would have nothing to do with women speaking in the Church ( 1 Corinthians 14:34). The Church at Ephesus us was even more open to these itinerant menaces than any other Church. Old Testament prophecy dispensational truth is introduced now. Stephanos ( G4735) has many associations, and all of them contribute something to the riches of thought behind it. Most famous of all the streets was the Street of Gold, which began with the Temple of Zeus and ended with the Temple of Cybele. Who then but uninstructed minds can doubt that the Lord meant more than the actual assemblies that were addressed in the province of Asia? The point here is that Pergamum was the centre of that worship for the province of Asia. Such an amulet was thought to be doubly effective, if no one other than the owner knew the name that was inscribed upon it. Nevertheless it is God's word and Christ's testimony, though as a whole composed of visions. His explanation of his tears was that no one could live in Ephesus without weeping at its immorality. (i) There is the conception of the tree of life. Jezebel may well have been teaching that it was a duty to sin. If we hear of the Apocalyptic angel of fire, we readily understand this; and if we hear of the angel of Jesus Christ as of Jehovah elsewhere, we find no insuperable difficulty. Aristides likened Smyrna to a great statue with the feet in the sea; the middle parts in the plain and the foothills; and the head, crowned with great buildings, on the Pagos behind.
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