Here in the third chapter of Revelation, at verse 22: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Now this is a message—a special message—from the Lord Jesus to all the churches. That you need the blood-tipped ear to hear. And that’s the reason that today you and I need to be very careful about our study of the Word of God, that we not run ahead of the Spirit of God, but that we let Him be our teacher. If you have an ear, a blood-tipped ear, why He wants you to hear what He has to say. And only the Spirit of God can make that real to us. These are the things that are, because it relates to the period in which we live.