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Hidden Manna and the New Name
Revelation 2:12–17 addresses Pergamum through Christ’s sharp two-edged sword and confronts compromise with idolatry and sexual immorality. The promises of hidden manna, a white stone, and a new name gather wilderness-provision, covenant-faithfulness, and new-identity imagery. The passage calls the church to resist accommodation even where loyalty to Jesus is costly.
Revelation’s promise of “hidden manna” develops the wilderness manna tradition and the preserved portion kept before YHWH in Exodus 16. The later promise turns remembered divine provision into symbolic reward for the one who overcomes.
Isaiah's promise of a new name supplies prophetic background for Revelation 2:17's promised new name.
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