Revelation 3:2

Christ calls them to wake up and strengthen what remains, for their works are unfinished before God. It matters because dying churches are summoned to urgent revival.

Cross-references · 28

• Rev 16:15“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• 2 Tim 4:1–4I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:
• Isa 35:3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
• Acts 20:28–31Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
• Mark 13:33–37Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.
• 2 Chr 25:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
• Matt 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
• Luke 22:31–32Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
• Deut 3:28But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”
• Acts 18:23After Paul had spent some time in Antioch, he traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
• Matt 24:42–51Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
• Ezek 34:16I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
• Dan 5:27TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
• 1 Kgs 11:4For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
• 1 Kgs 15:3And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
• Isa 62:6–7On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
• Isa 57:12I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
• Matt 23:5All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
• Ezek 34:8–10‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,
• Rev 2:4But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.
• Job 4:4–5Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
• Matt 23:28–38In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
• Isa 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
• Zech 11:16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
• Job 16:5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
• Matt 6:2–4So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

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