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NASB | Revelation 3:20 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 3:20 'Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me. |
Subject: Make a Decision |
Bible Note: Dear Hoppy I am sure John will get to you in due time... In the mean time, the passage says up in verse 18 that the discourse was about the church at Thyatira... The message about Jezebel was to the entire church at Thyatira and was about a woman named Jezebel in the church who was calling herself a prophetess in that church. She was teaching a false gospel and leading the church members astray and leading them to commit sexual sins and to eat foods sacrificed to idols. These were both part of pagan idol worship practices, to have open sexual encouters of fornication or adultery and to eat food sacrificed to the pagan idol. You need to take the Bible and interpret it literally, it means exactly what it says, there are sometimes symbols or allegories, like when Jesus says I am the door, but this is not one of them. There was a real woman with a real name who was doig real things and the church, the whole church was to take real action, period. There is nothing that you need to reinterpret or re-apply here, it was a message to that particular church about a particulare situation in that church. God's Day to you, Tamara |