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Philadelphia's Ominous Tremors (3.7,8)

"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." (Revelation 3.7-8)

ancient Philadelphia coin. Those who still dared to live in the city were reckoned mad. They spent their time shoring up the shaking buildings from Philadelphia's ominous tremors and every now and then fleeing to the open spaces for safety. The terrible days of Philadelphia's ominous tremors were never wholly forgotten, and people in it waited subconsciously for the ominous tremors of the ground, ready to flee for their lives to the open spaces. People in Philadelphia knew what security lay in a promise that "they would go out no more."

In later days, Philadelphia became a very great city. When the Turks and Mohammedanism flooded across Asia Minor and every other town had fallen, Philadelphia stood firm. For centuries it was a free Greek Christian city in the midst of a pagan people. It was the last bastion of Asian Christianity. It was not until midway through the fourteenth century that it fell; and to this day there is a Christian bishop and a thousand Christians in it. With the exception of Smyrna, the other Churches are in ruins but Philadelphia still holds aloft the banner of the Christian faith.

"Philadelphia's Ominous Tremors."

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