Notes used in the Message
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- The Book of Revelations Pt 20 (Open Door) - Samuel Dale
REVELATION 3:7-8
7 ¶ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
REVELATION 3:8
8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
296-4 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8
The key of David. Was not David the king of Israel--all Israel? And is not Jesus the Son of David according to the fact that He will sit upon the throne of David in the millennium and reign and rule over His heritage? Surely. So the key of David signifies that it is Jesus Who will bring in the millennium. He Who has the keys to death and hell will raise up His own that they may share in His reign of righteousness upon the earth.
294-3 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8
"He That hath the key of David." This beautiful phrase follows and comes out of the preceding phrase, "He that is true".--Christ, the Perfect Realization, contrasted with Partial Realization. Here it is. Moses was a prophet of God, but Jesus (like unto Moses) was THE Prophet of God. David (a man after God's own heart) was king of Israel, but Jesus is the Greater David, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, God very God. Now David was born of the tribe of Judah out of whom no priests came, yet he ate of the shew bread reserved for priests. He was the great warrior overcoming the enemy, establishing the people; as king he sat on the throne. He was a prophet. He was a wonderful type of Christ. Now it says in Isaiah 22:22, "And the key of the house of David will I lay upon His shoulder; so He shall open, and none shall shut; and He shall shut, and none shall open." The Spirit uses this Old Testament reference concerning the Lord Jesus Christ and His ministry in the church. What the key of David signified at that time is mere shadow, which is now fulfilled in Jesus standing in the midst of the lampstands. It has to do with our Lord AFTER His resurrection and not His earthly pilgrimage. But what does this key signify? The answer lies in the POSITION of the key. It is NOT in His hand. It is not worn around His neck. It is not placed in the hands of other men, or the verse could not be saying that HE ALONE HAS THE USE OF THAT KEY--FOR HE ALONE OPENS AND SHUTS, AND NO MAN has that right but Jesus Himself. Isn't that right? But where is the key? IT IS ON HIS SHOULDER. But what does SHOULDER have to do with it? Read Isaiah 9:6, "And the government shall be upon His shoulder." But what does this mean? The answer is this. The phrase, "government upon His shoulder" comes from the wedding ceremony of the East. When the bride has been committed to the groom she takes off her veil and places it over the groom's shoulders, signifying that not only is she under his dominion--that she has transferred her rights to him--that he is the head--but also that he bears the responsibility and the care and that HE AND HE ALONE--NO ONE ELSE--NO OTHER MAN--NO OTHER POWER--HAS ANY RIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITY. And that, beloved, is the KEY of David. God being Sovereign, He foreknew by Divine decree exactly who would be in His bride. He chose her. She did not choose Him. He called her. She did not come on her own. He died for her. He washed her in His own blood. He paid the price for her. She belongs to Him and to Him alone. She is wholly committed to Him and He accepts the obligation. He is her head, for Christ is the head of His church. As Sarah called Abraham, Lord, even so the bride is happy that He is her Lord. He speaks and she obeys for that is her delight.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
111 The reason I'm saying this this way, so you can see what I mean by the lapover. See? It's from the missionary age of the door. But, you see, He'd--He had told them He had the key of David and so forth. But here He said He had set before the church now, after that age of missionaring, and Whitfield, and--and all those others, and Finney, and Sankey, and Moody on down (Moody being one of the last), come down to now He set a open door before the church. Oh, here's where you have to watch now. It's just in between the Philadelphian and the Laodicean age, lapover.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
107 Now, now, the age, the great age... Now, let's begin now. I believe we're on the... That was the salute, the 7th verse. Through...
... unto the... Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the keys of David, he that open, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man open;
Quite a statement, isn't it? I--I'm going to come back to that just in a minute, 'cause it--it applies farther in the Scripture here.
I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou has a little strength, and has kept my word, and has not denied my name.
Now, now, watch the--the time coming now, after the great missionary move that swept across the nations of brotherly love, to take what they had. Nothing against it, of literature and whatevermore, into the different parts of the world. Now, the church denomination had gone back to education, works again (See?), gone back.
After the great denomination had been set up, Jesus set an open door. After the Wesleyan age had come in, and the Methodist church had been established in the earth, taken roots, growing, making a great church which it is today, one of the greatest among the Protestant churches, and that time, the thing that took place then was Jesus set an open door for the church before they entered into the Laodicean age.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
130 Now, let's just read it, and I'll catch it word by word just the way He brings it. See, "Behold..." Let's see:
... no man shutteth;...
... set before thee an open door,...
It's on the other side.
I know Thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it:...
"A open door," what was it? It was the revelation of the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ, not being a second person of a trinity, but being God Himself made flesh and dwelling among us. And the revelation...
Now, if you notice, just in a minute, let's just read just a little bit farther.
... shut it:... and has a little strength,... and has not denied my name.
The first time the Name's been spoke of now since back in this age back here, lost its Name; and Luther come out with a name that he was alive and was dead (Is that right?), Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Here comes out the Name of Jesus again in between these two ages here, in between: the open door. Now, it's a revelation what He was, the Deity, the revelations of His Deity.
TEN.VIRGINS_ JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_ 60-1211M
7 Now, tonight we're going to have the final great age of this, Laodicea. And last night we took the Philadelphian age and come over into the beginning of the Laodicean age and the lapover. And then them great mysteries that God begin to reveal to us between those ages, "the open Door," and "a little strength," "held My Word," "got My Name." All those little things in there, how God did so marvelously make them real to us, to which we are very, very thankful.
REVELATION.CHAP.FOUR.PT.1_ JEFF.IN ROJC 551-584 SATURDAY_ 60-1231
97 And there's only one Way. All right, Brother Stricker. There's only one Way that goes into the body of Christ. There's only one Door to the church of the living God, and Jesus is that Door. "I am the Door. I am the Way," the road that leads to the Door. "I am the Door to the sheepfold."
He said to this church age, "I've set before you an open Door." He said that to the Methodist church age; they turned away from It, went in organization. "But I've set before you an open Door." Now, after they'd received sanctification, He said, "I'll put the open Door," which is the Holy Spirit. "By one Spirit we are all (How?) baptized into one body which is Christ." He set that message before the Methodist church and they turned aside from it. They come up to sanctification and refused the Holy Ghost. Remember that? That open Door...
How do you get into Christ? By one Spirit, Holy Spirit, which is Christ's Spirit. We enter in, not by hand-shaking, not by sprinkling, but by one Holy Ghost baptism we are all baptized into one body and made partakers of that body. One Holy Ghost baptism into that Door.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
112 Jesus is the Door. Now, if you'll turn with me to John 10:17... Let's back this up now and be sure that many of you would believe. And then somebody would say, "Well, I--I never... He just said that." I'd like just to read it: John the 10th chapter and the 17th verse: John 10:17. All right, we read these Words. I beg your pardon, John 10:7, not 17.
Then said Jesus unto them... Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheepfold.
That's back into the blessing. How do we get into Christ? What is He? The sheepfold. I often wondered about that, "What? Could He be a Door, being a Man?" Now, over in the--over in the eastern countries there, I found out one day when I noticed that the shepherd, at nighttime he takes all the sheep inside of the corral, drives them through a door. And then when he gets all of them in there, he counts them all to see if they're every one in. Then he lays down in the door himself. Nothing can come in to the sheep, or any sheep can go out without crossing him. So Jesus is the Door (See?) to the sheepfold.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
16 Now, we've had the church ages now on down until tonight's church age is the sixth church age. Tomorrow night finishing up the church ages, taking one each night, Monday through Sunday... And tonight the church age is called the Philadelphian Church Age. And the star or the--the messenger, angel messenger to that church age, we believe, solemnly, with all of our heart, to be John Wesley.
The church age begin at 1750 when the Lutheran church age went out and lasted up to somewhere in 1900, around 1906 A.D., the Wesleyan church age. And then issued in from that, the Laodicea.
And now, the age is the age of, church age of brotherly love, the great missionary age and the open door age. And the reward was a--a pillar, made a pillar, and the revelation of three Names: the Name of God, the Name of the City of God, and God's New name, is the revelation that was given to this church, this age. And now, the church... This age begins in Revelations 3:7 down to the 13th verse, and the 13th verse inclusive, Revelations 3:7 to 13.
PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 373-423 SATURDAY_ 60-1210
213 We could stand here for hours, and we got fifteen more minutes time, and about thirty-five different comments to make here. And so we'll get them in the morning if we don't get them tonight. All right.
Now, all right.
... and no man shutteth it; for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word,... (All right?)... and has not denied my name.
There we got it: "Not denied My Name." Name had been revealed, got away from the old dead Sardis denomination, and had come into the living church.
Now, let's take the 9th verse. Now, we're going to watch now; we're coming over into something that's very dangerous.
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before Thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
There's a good night full right there. Watch. What are they now? Them that He talked to, that had found His Name after all this time here down here, come in the open Door Jesus Christ, got the Word of Life, been filled with the Holy Ghost, and now He said, "There are those among you who are in the synagogue of Satan."
EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 131-183 MONDAY_ 60-1205
81 Now, the first round, the apostles. Now, we see this is the beginning, Pentecost. He's walking around, the same great God, the same great signs was to take place all down through these ages because He walked among each age. Blessing what? His people that's assembled in His Name.
I want you to watch in this as we go through the church. This church had Jesus' Name. This church had Jesus' Name. This church had Jesus' Name. And this church lost It. This church come out, the Lutheran age, with "a name that you live, but you're dead." And goes right on down until the end of this age; and between this age and this age there's an open door set that brings back that Name again to the church. Now, watch and see if that isn't true, after we get it here in the Scriptures. There between the--the ages...