The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.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.Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
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… the overcomer, will be confessed by Christ before His Father and before the holy angels. And in chapter 3, verse 12, the overcomer will be made a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will not go out from it anymore. And 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 new name. The Lord is going to do divine graffiti all over those who are His, identifying them as such. And then finally, in verse 21 of chapter 3, the overcomer will sit on the throne with the Lord as He overcame and sat down with His Father on His throne. So what we have then is a mixture in the church. Sometimes mostly all, if not nearly all believers like in Ephesus, or sometimes very, very, very few, even hard to recognize like in the church of Laodicea and in between all the other levels of mixture. …
… To the church in Philadelphia, he says, the one who conquers, I'll make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it. And 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 from my God out of heaven and my own new name. and then the church in Laodicea says the one who conquers I'll grant him to sit with me on my throne as I also conquered and sat down with my father on his throne so I'm reading those as a lot of some of you have read this and I'm going God I don't think about this stuff Thank you. like this isn't usually what motivates me. So he's writing this letter to these churches and some of them being persecuted to where like they're going to die. They're going to be killed for their faith. And the way he motivates them is with these eternal things. …
… Hold fast what you have so that no one may seize your crown. The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and 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 from my God out of heaven in my own new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation. I know your works. You are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm and neither cold or hot, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. …