June 11, 2023 – John’s Writings – Complex Love

Complex Love

Deuteronomy 10:12-20 - New International Version (NIV)

¹⁰ Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you. ¹¹ “Go,” the Lord said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.”

¹² And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

¹⁴ To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. ¹⁵ Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today. ¹⁶ Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. ¹⁸ He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. ¹⁹ And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. ²⁰ Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.

How long did Moses stay on the mountain (verse 10)?

What was not the Lord’s will (verse 10)?

Why was Moses to “Go” and “lead the people on their way” (verse 11)?

What does the Lord ask of Israel (verses 12 and 13)?

Who does “the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it” belong to (verse 14)?

How did the Lord feel about Israel’s ancestors (verse 15)?

In your opinion, how does circumcising their hearts help the Israelites not to “be stiff-necked any longer” (verse 16)?

Who is “God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome” (verse 17)?

Who does the Lord love (verse 18)?

Who are the Israelites to love (verse 19)?

Who are the Israelites to fear (verse 20)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage show us about how to move from being “stiff-necked” to accepting and acknowledging Jesus?

John 13:12-20 - New International Version (NIV)

¹⁰ Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” ¹¹ For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.

¹² When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. ¹³ “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. ¹⁴ Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. ¹⁶ Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷ Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

¹⁸ “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’

¹⁹ “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am. ²⁰ Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”

What do “those who have had a bath” need to wash (verse 10)?

Were all of those with Jesus clean (verse 10)?

What did Jesus know (verse 11)?

Who said “do you understand what I have done for you” (verse 12)?

What is Jesus (verse 13)?

What is Jesus’s command (verse 14)?

Who set the example (verse 15)?

Who is not greater than the master (verse 16)?

When will the disciples, and us, be blessed (verse 17)?

What does Jesus know (verse 18)?

Why was Jesus telling them “now before it happens” (verse 19)?

Who accepts Jesus (verse 20)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage show us about how to move from being “stiff-necked” to accepting and acknowledging Jesus?

In your opinion, how do the words and actions of Jesus in John 13:12-20 teach us about living God’s command in Deuteronomy 10:12-20 to “fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees”?

2 John 4-11 – New International Version (NIV)

⁴ It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. ⁵ And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. ⁶ And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

⁷ I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. ⁸ Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. ⁹ Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. ¹¹ Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.

What has given John “great joy” (verse 4)?

When was the commandment John is going to write given (verse 5)?

What is the commandment (verse 5)?

What is love (verse 6)?

How does John describe the many deceivers (verse 7)?

Where have the many deceivers gone (verse 7)?

What are believers to “watch out” for (verse 8)?

Who does not have God (verse 9)?

Who has “both the Father and the Son” (verse 9)?

How should believers respond to anyone who “comes to you and does not bring this teaching” (verse 10)?

Who “shares in their wicked work” (verse 11)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage show us about how to move from being “stiff-necked” to accepting and acknowledging Jesus?

In your opinion, why is the command that John shared in 2 John 4-11 simpler than the command that Moses gave in Deuteronomy 10:12-20?  Does simpler mean easier?

In your opinion, how would refusing to acknowledge that Jesus came in the flesh, as the deceivers do in 2 John 4-11, undermine the power of John 13:12-20’s message?

Revelation 19:11-16 – New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. ¹² His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. ¹³ He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. ¹⁴ The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵ Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶ On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

king of kings and lord of lords.

What was “standing open” (verse 11)?

Who is the rider of the white horse (verse 11)?

How does He judge and wage war (verse 11)?

What are His eyes like (verse 12)?

What is His name (verse 13)?

Who was following Him (verse 14)?

What will He do with the sharp sword coming out of His mouth (verse 15)?

What does He tread (verse 15)?

Where is “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” written (verse 16)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage show us about how to move from being “stiff-necked” to accepting and acknowledging Jesus?

In your opinion, how do you explain the difference in the actions of God who in Deuteronomy 10:12-20 did not want to destroy but who in Revelation 19:11-16 “judges and wages war”?

In your opinion, how do you explain the difference in the actions of Jesus who in John 13:12-20 washed everyone’s feet but who in Revelation 19:11-16 “judges and wages war”?

In your opinion, how does the prophecy of Revelation 19:11-16 that Jesus will strike down nations and rule with an iron scepter make 2 John 4-11’s instruction to “watch out” for deceivers more powerful? 

In your opinion, what do these passages from Deuteronomy, John, 2 John and Revelation teach us the about the complex love of God?

In your opinion, how does the command to love transform those who Jesus has chosen?  How does the command to love transform the world?

 

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December 25, 2016 – Genesis and John (Gospel and Revelation) – Life, Death and New Life

Life, Death and New Life

Genesis 2:4-7 – New International Version (NIV)

⁴ This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

⁵ Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, ⁶ but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. ⁷ Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Who made the earth and the heavens (verse 4)?

Why had no shrub appeared or plant sprung up (verse 5)?

How was the ground watered (verse 6)?

What did the Lord God form a man from (verse 7)?

When did man become a living being (verse 7)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

John 1:6-14 - New International Version (NIV)

⁶ There was a man sent from God whose name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. ⁸ He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

⁹ The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. ¹¹ He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. ¹² Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Who sent John (verse 6)?

Why did John testify concerning the light (verse 7)?

What was John’s relationship to the light (verse 8)?

Who does the true light give light to (verse 9)?

In your opinion, why did the world, though made through Him, not recognize the light (verse 10)?

Who did not receive Him (verse 11)?

What did He give “those who believed in his name” (verse 12)?

In your opinion, what does it mean to be “born of God” (verse 13)?

What did the Word become (verse 14)?

What filled the Son who came from the Father (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what can we learn from comparing the way the first man was formed and given life in Genesis 2:4-7 and the way the Son “became flesh” in John 1:6-14?

Romans 5:12-21 - New International Version (NIV)

¹² Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—

¹³ To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

¹⁵ But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! ¹⁶ Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. ¹⁷ For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

¹⁸ Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. ¹⁹ For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

²⁰ The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, ²¹ so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

How did sin enter the world (verse 12)?

How did death enter the world (verse 12)?

In your opinion, what does Paul mean when he says “but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law” (verse 13)?

What reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what is the difference between the gift and the trespass (verse 15)?

What followed one sin (verse 16)?

What did the gift follow (verse 16)?

How is God’s provision of grace described (verse 17)?

How many trespasses resulted in condemnation for all people (verse 18)?

How many righteous acts resulted in justification and life for all people (verse 18)?

In your opinion, what does Paul mean when he says “the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase” (verse 20)?

What happened when sin increased (verse 20)?

How does grace reign (verse 21)?

What does grace bring through Jesus Christ (verse 21)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does Paul in Romans 5:12-21 help us understand about the way those who “believed in his name” in John 1:6-14 became children of God by being “born of God”?

In your opinion, what can we learn from the fact that Jesus, who is the one who breathed life into Adam in Genesis 2:4-7 is also the one whose righteous act Paul says in Romans 5:12-21 resulted in “justification and life for all people”?

Revelation 19:11-16 – New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. ¹² His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. ¹³ He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. ¹⁴ The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵ Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶ On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

king of kings and lord of lords.

What is the rider of the white horse called (verse 11)?

How does the rider of the white horse wage war (verse 11)?

What is on the rider’s head (verse 12)?

What is the rider dressed in (verse 13)?

What is the rider’s name (verse 13)?

In your opinion, what does it mean that the rider’s armies are dressed in “fine linen, white and clean” (verse 14)?

Where is the sharp sword (verse 15)?

What winepress does the rider tread (verse 15)?

What is written on His robe and his thigh (verse 15)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, why does Paul show Jesus as the provider of the gift of abundant grace in Romans 5:12-21 but John sees Jesus as the one who strikes down nations and who “treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty” in Revelation 19:11-16?

In your opinion, why does John in John 1:6-14 say that he saw “the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth” and then in Revelation 19:11-16 says that he “judges and wages war”?

In your opinion, how do you feel when you think that the one who created a man from dust and breathed life into him in Genesis 2:4-7 is also the one who judges, wages war and strikes down nations in Revelation 19:11-16?

In your opinion, what do these passages from Genesis, John, Romans and Revelation help us understand about life, new life and judgment?

In your opinion, how do these passages strengthen our desire to live in “God’s abundant provision of Grace”?

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March 27, 2016 – Letters From Home – Hidden Manna and New Names

Hidden Manna and New Names

Revelation 2:12-17 – New International Version (NIV)

¹² “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:

These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. ¹³ I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality. ¹⁵ Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

¹⁷ Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.”

How does Jesus describe himself in the message to the angel of the church in Pergamum (verse 12)?

Where does Jesus know that the church in Pergamum lives (verse 13)?

What does the church in Pergamum remain true to (verse 13)?

Why does Jesus say that Antipas is “my faithful witness” (verse 13)?

In your opinion, why does Jesus say He holds against the church that “there are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam” (verse 14)?

What did Balaam teach Balak (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what does Jesus mean when He says “I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth” (verse 16)?

What will those who are victorious receive (verse 17)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

Jude 1:3-13 - New International Version (NIV)

³ “Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. ⁴ For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

⁵ Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. ⁷ In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. ⁹ But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.

¹¹ Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.

¹² These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. ¹³ They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.”

What was Jude eager to write about (verse 3)?

What did Jude feel compelled to write and urge (verse 3)?

Where have “certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long age” gone (verse 4)?

In your opinion, how have these “ungodly people” perverted the “grace of our God into a license for immorality” (verse 4)?

How do these “ungodly people” respond to Jesus Christ (verse 4)?

What happened to those who were the Lord’s people who were delivered from Egypt who did not believe (verse 5)?

What happened to angels “who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling” (verse 6)?

How are Sodom and Gomorrah examples (verse 7)?

In your opinion, what does Jude mean when he says “on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings” (verse 8)?

How did the archangel Michael dispute with the devil about the body of Moses (verse 9)?

What will “the very things they understand by instinct” do to these people who “slander whatever they do not understand” (verse 10)?

In your opinion, what is Jude trying to teach when he refers to “the way of Cain”, “Balaam’s error” and “Korah’s rebellion” (verse 11)?

What are “these people” at your love feasts (verse 12)?

In your opinion, what does Jude mean when he says “They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. ¹³ They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.” (verses 12 and 13)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how does Jude’s discussion of the “certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago” in Jude 1:3-13 teach us about the ones who “hold to the teaching of Balaam” and the Nicolaitans in Revelation 2:12-17?

John 6:26-40 - New International Version (NIV)

²⁶ “Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. ²⁷ Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

²⁸ Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

²⁹ Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

³⁰ So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? ³¹ Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

³² Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴ “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”

³⁵ Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. ³⁶ But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. ³⁷ All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. ³⁸ For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. ³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁰ For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

Why were the people looking for Jesus (verse 26)?

What food should we work for (verse 27)?

How does Jesus answer the question “What must we do to do the works God requires” (verses 28 and 29)?

In your opinion, why do they ask Him “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? ³¹ Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” (verses 30 and 31)?

Who does Jesus say gave the “true bread from heaven” (verse 32)?

What is the “bread of God” (verse 33)?

Who asks “always give us this bread” (verse 34)?

What does Jesus declare (verse 35)?

Who will never go hungry (verse 35)?

Who will Jesus “never drive away” (verse 37)?

What is “the will of him who sent me” (verse 39)?

Who will be raised “up at the last day” (verse 40)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, how are the people who ask Jesus to give them the “bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world” but who have seen Jesus and not believed in John 6:26-40 similar to the people that Jude talks about who “are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord” in Jude 1:3-13?

In your opinion, how does Jesus’ discussion about the “true bread from heaven” in John 6:26-40 help us to understand about the “one who is victorious” receiving some of the “hidden manna” in Revelation 2:12-17?

Revelation 19:11-16 – New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ “I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. ¹² His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. ¹³ He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. ¹⁴ The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵ Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶ On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

king of kings and lord of lords.”

Who is riding the white horse that John sees when he sees heaven stands open (verse 11)?

How does He judge and wage war (verse 11)?

What are His eyes like (verse 12)?

In your opinion, why would Jesus have a “name written on him that no one knows but he himself” (verse 12)?

What is He dressed in (verse 13)?

What is His name (verse 13)?

Who is following Him (verse 14)?

In your opinion, how does the sharp sword coming out of his mouth “strike down the nations” (verse 15)?

What does He tread (verse 15)?

Where is the name “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” written (verse 16)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does Jesus’ statement in John 6:26-40 that “whoever comes to me I will never drive away” help us to understand about the nations that Revelation 19:11-16 says the Rider of the white horse will strike down with the sharp sword that comes from His mouth?

In your opinion, how does Jude’s discussion in Jude 1:3-13 about those “who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord” help us begin to understand the “winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty” that John sees in Revelation 19:11-16?

In your opinion, what is the link between those who are victorious in Revelation 2:12-17 that they will be given “a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it” and Jesus who in Revelation 19:11-16 “has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself” and “On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords”?

In your opinion, what do these passages, from Revelation, Jude and John show us about ourselves today?

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