OrthJBC - Revelation of John - 2

2:1  To the malach of the Kehillah (Congregation) in Ephesus, write: These things says the One holding shevat hakokhavim (seven stars) in the yad yamin of him, the One walking in the midst of the sheva golden menorot:

2:2  "I have da'as of your ma'asim and your amal (toil) and the savlanut (patient endurance) of you (pl.) and that you cannot bear anshei resha, and have tested the ones calling themselves "Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach's shluchim" and are not, and found them shakranim (liars).

2:3  And you have savlanut (patient endurance), and you have persevered because of ha-Shem of me and have not become weary.

2:4  But I have this against you, that you abandoned your Ahavah HaRishonah. [Yirmeyah 2:2]

2:5  Therefore, let there be zikaron (remembrance) of from where you have fallen and make teshuva (repentance, turning from sin to G-d) and do the Ma'asim HaRishonim; but, if not, I am coming to you (pl.) and I will remove your menorah, from its place, unless you make teshuva.

2:6  But this you have, that you loathe the ma'asim ra'im of the Nicolaitans, which also I loathe.[Tehillim 139:21]

2:7  The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot. To the one who wins the nitzachon (victory) I will give to him to eat of the Aitz HaChayyim, which is in the Gan-Eden of Hashem, [Bereshis 2:9; 3:22,24; also Bereshis 2:8; Yechezkel 28:1; 31:8,9 Targum Ha-Shivim (Septuagint)] THE IGGERET HAKODESH TO THE KEHILLAH AT SMYRNA

2:8  And to the malach of the Kehillah in Smyrna, write: these things says HaRishon and HaAcharon, who became niftar and came back to Chayyim (Life): [Yeshayah 44:6; 48:12]

2:9  I have da'as of your tzarah (Mt.24:15f) and oni poverty)--but you are ashir (rich)--and the loshon hora of the ones declaring themselves to be Bnei Berit, and are not, but are a Shul [deluded by] Hasatan.

2:10  Do not fear at all the things you are about to suffer. Hinei! Hasatan is about to cast some of you into beit hasohar that you may be tested and you will have tzarah aseret yamim. Be ne'eman ad haMavet (faithful unto death), and I will give you the ateret HaChayyim (the diadem of Life). [Daniel 1:12,14]

2:11  The one having ears let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot. The one who wins the nitzachon (victory) never will be hurt by the Mavet HaSheyni. THE IGGERET HAKODESH TO THE KEHILLAH AT PERGAMUM

2:12  And to the malach of the Kehillah at Pergamum, write: these things says the one having the sharp two-edged cherev: [Yeshayah 49:2]

2:13  "I have da'as of where you make your ma'on, where the kisseh of Hasatan is, and you hold fast ha-Shem of me and did not make hakhchashah (denial) of the emunah in me, even in the days of Antipas eidus hane'eman (my faithful witness) who died al kiddush Ha-Shem, killed among you as a martyr where Hasatan makes his ma'on.

2:14  But I have a few things against you, because you have there ones holding to "the torah of Bil`am," who was teaching Balak to put a michshol before Bnei Yisroel. [Bamidbar 31:16; 25:1-2]

2:15  So also you have ones eating okhel (food) sacrificed to elilim and who commit zenut. You also have ones holding the "torah of the Nicolaitans."

2:16  Likewise, therefore, make teshuva (repentance, turning from sin to G-d)! But if not, I am coming to you quickly and will war against them by the cherev of the mouth of me [Yeshayah 49:2]

2:17  The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot. To the one who wins the nitzachon (victory), I will give him some of the Manna having been hidden, and I will give Him an Even Levanah (White Stone) and upon it a Shem Chadash, of which no one has da'as, except the one receiving it. [Tehillim 78:24; Yeshayah 62:2; 65:15; 56:5] THE IGGERET HAKODESH TO THE KEHILLAH AT THYATIRA

2:18  And to the malach of the Kehillah in Thyatira, write: these things says the Ben HaElohim, the One having his eynayim (eyes) like a flame of aish (fire), [Daniel 7:9] and the feet of him like burnished bronze: [Daniel 10:6]

2:19  "I have da'as of your ma'asim and the ahavah and the emunah and the Tzedek [Daniel 9:25] and the savlanut (patient endurance) of you, and that your Ma'asim HaAcharonim are more than HaRishonim of you.

2:20  But I have this against you, that you are being permissive toward that isha Izevel (Jezebel), the one calling herself a nevi'ah (prophetess) who teaches and deceives my avadim to commit zenut and to eat okhel sacrificed to elilim [Melachim Alef 16:31; 21:25; Melachim Bais 9:7-22; Bamidbar 25:1-2]

2:21  And I gave her time that she might make teshuva and she does not wish to make teshuva of her zenut. [Melachim Alef 16:31; Melachim Bais 9:22; Bamidbar 25:1-2]

2:22  Hinei! I am throwing her into a bed, and the ones committing ni'uf (adultery) with her into Tzarah Gedolah (Great Tribulation, Mt.24:21), unless they make teshuva of her ma'asim.

2:23  And her yeladim I will kill with Mavet, and all the kehillot will have da'as that I am the One searching their klayot valev (conscience and heart), and I will give to you, each one, according to your ma'asim. [Tehillim 7:9; 62:12; 139:1; 2:23; Mishle 21:2; 24:12; Yirmeyah 11:20; 17:10; Shmuel Alef 16:7; Melachim Alef 8:39;]

2:24  But I say to you, the rest, to the ones in Thyatira, as many as have not this "torah", who did not have da'as of the, as they say, "the tiefe (deep) things of Hasatan"-- I am putting on you no other burden.

2:25  Al kol panim (nevertheless), what you have, hold fast until I come.

2:26  And the one who wins the nitzachon (victory) and the one until HaKets keeping shomer of the ma'asim mitzvot of me, him will I give samchut over the Goyim,

2:27  to rule them with a shevet barzel (scepter of iron, Tehillim 2:9) kikh'li yotzer tenaptzem ("as the vessels of pottery are broken") [Tehillim 2:8,9; Yeshayah 30:14; Yirmeyah 19:11]

2:28  even as I also have received from HaAv of me and I will give him the Kochav (Star--Bamidar 24:17) haNogah (of Brightness/Venus, II Shimon Kefa 1:19).

2:29  The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot.