ye shall have tribulation ten days

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SpudLove

SpudLove

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Revelation 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Does this,
A) mean literally 10 x 24 hours?
B) mean more of an expression of a length of time (i.e your suffering may not be healed overnight) ?

Just wondering how other people understand it
 
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john832

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303AD to 313AD under Diocletian.
 
SpudLove

SpudLove

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I thought this passage was also referenced in the current day, as we are tested?

(thankyou for your reply)
 
4enlightment

4enlightment

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SpudLove said:
Revelation 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Does this,
A) mean literally 10 x 24 hours?
B) mean more of an expression of a length of time (i.e your suffering may not be healed overnight) ?

Just wondering how other people understand it
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Ten means to tithe and if everything we has belong to God, then what can we use to pay the piper. So I guess we must surrender ourselves as slaves until our debt has been paid and then God send us to the Jailer ( satan) to be tested to see if we are worthy to become sons.

Matthew 18:34In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

Acts 16:23After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.

Hebrews 12:6because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”

Matthew 12:40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Exodus 2 11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
14 The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
 
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enoch1nine

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It means a servant will be tested until he has mastered (as much as possible) each and every one of the ten commandments.
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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i know of two possibilities...

there were ten major persecutions of the early church from the time of christ to the full legalization of christianity under constantine...symbolically this could be 'ten days' of persecution if smyrna represents the 'ante nicene' period of church history...

it could also refer to a literal ten days of persecution in the city of smyrna in john's era...near the time of saturnalia in december the romans would make offerings to saturn in the form of gladiators forced to fight to the death...smyrna had its own large gladiatorial arena...maybe they chose to offer christians to saturn that year...
 
Bookends

Bookends

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This was written to the church of Smyrna in the 1st Century. It is past. We should always consider that the whole bible was written to a particular people in a particular epic in time, and not through a 21st century pair of glasses. But also the whole bible was written for us to gleam spiritual truths of God and His redemptive plan of salvation.
 
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nathan3

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10 days on a individual basis I was told. For the elect. .
 
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