“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth — Philadelphia's steadfastness in keeping Christ's word (and his word of patient endurance) earns supernatural protection from the eschatological trial (peirasmos). The hour of trial (whether tribulation or final judgment) tests all earth-dwellers; the faithful are preserved through it, possibly raptured or protected within it.
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