25 Ultimate Revelation 3 Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer 1: C. Christ opened the message to Sardis with this self-description, drawing from John’s vision in chapter one of the seven Spirits and the seven stars.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:1, “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars.”

Answer 2: B. Christ urged the lukewarm church to purchase from Him gold tried in the fire, exposing the falsehood of the riches they boasted in.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:18, “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich.”

Answer 3: D. Christ judged the works of Sardis as unfinished and unfulfilled, lacking the perfection that should attend a true labour before God.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:2, “for I have not found thy works perfect before God.”

Answer 4: A. Those who professed to be Jews but were not are named the synagogue of Satan, and Christ promised to humble them at the feet of His faithful church.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:9, “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie.”

Answer 5: B. The promise is preservation, not inscription. Christ pledged that the overcomer’s name, already written, should never be erased.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:5, “I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.”

Answer 6: C. Each opening title carried weight against a particular failing. Christ stood before the lukewarm as the Amen and faithful witness, the steady measure against their drifting.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:14, “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.”

Answer 7: E. Three names are written upon the overcomer: the name of His God, the name of the city of His God which is new Jerusalem, and Christ’s own new name.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:12, “I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”

Answer 8: B. Note the threefold commendation. The distractors echo praise spoken to the earlier churches in chapter two, against which Philadelphia’s particular commendation must be carefully distinguished.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:8, “for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.”

Answer 9: D. The dying remnant required strengthening, not merely watching. Christ also told them to be watchful, but the specific charge concerning the things which remained was to strengthen them.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:2, “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die.”

Answer 10: C. The metaphor is bodily and visceral. Distractor B is the threat to Ephesus in the previous chapter, not to Laodicea.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:16, “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”

Answer 11: A. The promise to Laodicea is the highest of the seven. Distractor B is the promise to Pergamos in the previous chapter.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:21, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

Answer 12: B. The thief metaphor exposes the danger of spiritual sleep. Distractor A is the warning given to Ephesus, not to Sardis.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:3, “If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.”

Answer 13: D. The promise concerns sovereign protection, not access by merit. Christ alone holds the key, and what He opens is sealed open.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:8, “behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.”

Answer 14: E. The humbling at the feet of the church served a deeper purpose. The opposers should be brought not only to defeat but to recognition of Christ’s particular love for that congregation.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:9, “behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

Answer 15: C. The double clause established Christ’s absolute authority over the door He set before Philadelphia. Distractor A names a different prerogative described in chapter one.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:7, “he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth.”

Answer 16: D. The triple boast of wealth, increase, and self-sufficiency exposed the heart of the Laodicean error. They rated themselves by what they possessed rather than by what Christ possessed in them.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:17, “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing.”

Answer 17: B. Christ answered their boast with five exact opposites. Each adjective matches in number and weight what the church claimed of itself.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:17, “and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”

Answer 18: A. The instruction was simple. They were to keep what they already possessed, not to seek something new, and the warning came tied to His promise of swift coming.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:11, “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”

Answer 19: C. The undefiled few were granted the dignity of walking with Christ in white. Their worthiness lay in what they had not done, namely, to soil their garments.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:4, “Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.”

Answer 20: E. The blind church needed remedy at the source of its blindness. Christ named eyesalve as the cure for sight that did not see itself.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:18, “and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.”

Answer 21: B. The reproof to Laodicea is reframed as evidence of love. The chastening is not punishment for an enemy but the discipline of the beloved.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:19, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”

Answer 22: C. The promise is removal, not preservation through the trial. The reward is tied to their having kept the word of His patience.
KJV Reference: 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.”

Answer 23: D. The image is of fixity and permanence. The pillar bears the temple’s weight and goes no more out, the opposite of the unstable, removable lampstand.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:12, “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out.”

Answer 24: A. The Sardian few who had not defiled their garments are joined by every overcomer in the same white raiment, the standing dress of those whom Christ owns.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:5, “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment.”

Answer 25: E. The promise is mutual table fellowship. Christ enters where He is welcomed, and the act of opening becomes the start of communion.
KJV Reference: Revelation 3:20, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”