Offenbarung 2:28

28 und ich werde ihm den Morgenstern geben.

Offenbarung 2:28 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 2:28

And I will give him the morning star.
] So Christ is called, ( Revelation 22:16 ) ; and here it designs an illustrious appearance of Christ at the close of this church state, and a communication of much light and grace from him, which introduced the Sardian church state, or the reformation by Luther, Calvin which is the phosphorus, or morning star, to the spiritual reign of Christ under the Philadelphian church state; which will be the bright, clear, day of the Gospel, when the present twilight, which is between the appearance of the morning star and that glorious day, will be removed: for by this morning star is not meant the glory that shall be put upon the bodies of the saints in the resurrection morn; nor the heavenly glory itself, or the hope of it; but the dawning of the latter day glory, which began at the Reformation, and is promised the faithful professors in the Thyatirian church state, who lived in the darkness of Popery.

Offenbarung 2:28 In-Context

26 Und wer überwindet und meine Werke bewahrt bis ans Ende, dem werde ich Gewalt über die Nationen geben;
27 und er wird sie weiden mit eiserner Rute, wie Töpfergefäße zerschmettert werden, wie auch ich von meinem Vater empfangen habe;
28 und ich werde ihm den Morgenstern geben.
29 Wer ein Ohr hat, höre, was der Geist den Versammlungen sagt!
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