If you read the text in context by including verse 12...you will see that there is a major point that you have overlooked ....OVERCOMETHIt was meant to be.
I don't.
Because you have kept My Word,,,,
I will keep YOU from the hour of trial.
Because you did this for Me,,,,
I will do this for you.
This is decided before the hour of trial begins. Because we have kept His Word to endure patiently, He will keep us through or during the hour of trial. Why? Because we have kept His Word before the hour of trial began.
That word "from", ἐκ, can also mean "through" the hour of trial. He can keep us through the hour of trial, just like He kept Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego "through" Nebuchadnezzar's best fire.
And if you're on this list, you are NOT going to be taken captive, you are NOT going to be slain by the sword. You will be "left" standing to see the Son of Man. And that means you'll go from life to life and never taste physical death.
ἐκ:
from out, out from among, fromfrom out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards.
Strong's:
ἐκ:
literal or figurative; direct or remote)
Derivation: a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause;
KJV Usage: after, among, X are, at, betwixt(-yond), by (the means of), exceedingly, (+ abundantly above), for(- th), from (among, forth, up), + grudgingly, + heartily, X heavenly, X hereby, + very highly, in, …ly, (because, by reason) of, off (from), on, out among (from, of), over, since, X thenceforth, through, X unto, X vehemently, with(-out).
Jesus will give us the strength to OVERCOME during the hour of trial....Now look at what is promised to those who OVERCOME ...
Revelation 3:10-12
10 Because thou didst keep The WORD of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that [hour] which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.
12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
Now look at these 2 other reference to OVERCOME in Revelation...
Revelation 12:11 KJV
And they OVERCAME him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the WORD of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.
Because thou have kept my WORD even unto death....
Revelation 21
7 HE THAT OVERCOMETH shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
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