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I have loved thee.

Say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie?

Why is John so concerned with the belief of Judaism?

Could it be that Jesus was a Jew, and had no intention of being anything else?

Why would John defend Judaism so intensely?

[10] Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the entire world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

[11] Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

[12] Him that overcomes 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.

Here John proclaims the worship of Jesus to God; I make a pillar in the temple of my God.'

[19] As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

[20] Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

[21] To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Jesus claims here (not John) that he overcame the falsity of belief to sit down with God, the true God, and that this was possible for all men.

This leads me to suggest that John, in the book of revelations, was not sponsoring Christianity but Judaism. As Martin Luther indicated; the book is neither apostolic nor prophetic.

What we all have to remember is that Jesus was not a Christian, Jesus was a Jew!

If Jesus truly believed in the God of Israel; if he was truly the son of God; he would not lead people away from the God of Israel and he would not seek to alter the worship of God through another understanding.

The first 3 chapters of Revelations indicate and suggest that the angel of God revealed to John the straying of a people; no longer were they worshiping Yahweh, now they worshiped a man; he they called the son of God.

There is one thing religious history as taught us, and that is Jesus worshipped and loved God with all of heart and soul; he stored his treasures in heaven where his God resided.

It seems as though John, in his Book of Revelations tried to show this Christian sect how they were straying from the original intention of Jesus Christ; that we should worship God.

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