Revelation 1:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

That liveth

Was

I am alive

Revelation 4:9

Revelation 5:14

Hebrews 7:16

The keys

General references

Isaiah 43:11

1 Corinthians 15:13

Hebrews 13:8

Bible References

That liveth

But I know my living Redeemer,

and He will stand on the dust at last.

The Lord lives—may my rock be praised!
The God of my salvation is exalted.

“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too.

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.

In fact, He was crucified in weakness, but He lives by God’s power. For we also are weak in Him, yet toward you we will live with Him by God’s power.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God.

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Was

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For Christ’s love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If One died for all, then all died.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

I am alive

Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, the One who lives forever and ever,

The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

who did not become a priest based on a legal command concerning physical descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.

The keys

“Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia:

“The Holy One, the True One, the One who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and closes and no one opens says:

The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. The key to the shaft of the abyss was given to him.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Our God is a God of salvation,
and escape from death belongs to the Lord God.

I will place the key of the House of David on his shoulder; what he opens, no one can close; what he closes, no one can open.

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven.”

General references

I, I am Yahweh,
and there is no other Savior but Me.

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.