Revelation 3:10
“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.”
King James Version
The promise to faithful Philadelphia — to be kept from the hour of trial coming on all the world — a key text in the rapture-timing discussion.
Fulfillment References
1 Thessalonians 1:10 1 Thessalonians 5:9 Luke 21:36 2 Peter 2:9
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalThe one Lord keeps His own in the hour of trial — His faithfulness the believer's security (1 Thess. 5:9).
JewishThe promise of preservation through trial, echoing God's keeping of the faithful.
CatholicChrist's promise to preserve His faithful in the coming trial.
ProtestantRead either as preservation through tribulation or, by many, as removal from it (a pre-tribulation text); a much-discussed promise.
OrthodoxThe Lord's keeping of His faithful in the hour of testing.
DispensationalA leading proof-text for the pre-tribulation rapture — the church kept out of the hour of trial that comes on all the world.
Academic'Keep thee from (ek) the hour' is debated — preservation through vs. removal from the trial; central to rapture-timing arguments.
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