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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "revelation-philadelphia",
  "era": "revelation",
  "order": 500,
  "title": "Philadelphia: an open door and patient endurance",
  "group": "rev-messages",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Revelation 3 · reading sequence",
    "note": "This is the order of the book. It does not assign a calendar date to a vision or choose one scheme of fulfillment."
  },
  "pin": [
    28.516667,
    38.35
  ],
  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "rev-philadelphia",
  "summary": "The holy and true one sets an open door before Philadelphia, whose people have kept his word despite little strength. He promises vindication, protection in trial, and a lasting place in God’s presence.",
  "context": "The key of David draws on Isaiah’s image of delegated authority. The open door and promise about the hour of testing receive different interpretations; the message itself emphasizes keeping Christ’s word and holding fast. Its harsh language about local opponents is not a judgment on all Jewish people and must not justify antisemitism. The pillar and names in the promise express belonging to God and the new Jerusalem; they do not identify a surviving building in Philadelphia.",
  "question": "How does the promise of belonging address a community with little strength?",
  "locationNote": "The marker identifies Philadelphia, the recipient city in Revelation 3; no exact meeting place or later church building is asserted.",
  "relatedNote": "These readings illuminate biblical language and themes. Connections do not by themselves settle the timing or every interpretation of the vision.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Revelation 3:7–13",
      "range": [
        66003007,
        66003013
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%203%3A7%E2%80%9313&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One 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."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 8,
          "text": "I know your deeds. Behold, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. I know that you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 9,
          "text": "As for those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead, I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 10,
          "text": "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 11,
          "text": "I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 12,
          "text": "The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 13,
          "text": "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        23022020,
        23022022
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Isaiah’s key of the house of David supplies the opening and shutting image applied to Christ.",
      "reference": "Isaiah 22:20–22",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2022%3A20%E2%80%9322&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "rev-philadelphia",
      "name": "Philadelphia",
      "coordinate": [
        28.516667,
        38.35
      ],
      "kind": "City",
      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "OpenBible · Revelation geography (CC BY 4.0); city or island orientation, not a church building",
          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/preview/rev"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "mapPeriod": "revelation-asia",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "OpenBible · Revelation geography (CC BY 4.0); city or island orientation, not a church building",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/preview/rev"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/revelation.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Revelation",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=revelation-philadelphia",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-philadelphia/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-philadelphia/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-philadelphia/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "510fe531297b3f31"
}