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 come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• 2 Tim 4:1–4I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
• Isa 35:3Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
• Acts 20:28–31Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• Mark 13:33–37Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
• 2 Chr 25:2He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.
• Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
• Luke 22:31–32The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
• Deut 3:28But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”
• Acts 18:23Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
• Matt 24:42–51Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
• Ezek 34:16I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
• Dan 5:27TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
• 1 Kgs 11:4When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.
• 1 Kgs 15:3He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
• Isa 62:6–7I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
• Isa 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
• Matt 23:5But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,
• Ezek 34:8–10As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep;
• Rev 2:4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
• Job 4:4–5Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
• Matt 23:28–38Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Zech 11:16For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
• Job 16:5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
• Matt 6:2–4Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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