What is surprising about the city of Philadelphia?
Revelation 3:7 (ESV)
7“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David,who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
Philadelphia, like any major town of the time, was situated on crossroads of travel and trade. The major livelihood of its citizens, though, came particularly from the wine industry that did well on the soils around the city.
7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.