THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST

Wherever we are, preach and teach JESUS. The time is short. The doors are closing. The window of opportunity will not be open forever. Jesus said the time is coming when you will long to see the days of the Son of Man (Luke 17:22), but you won’t see them. The night is coming when no man can work (John 9:4). Wicked men and seducers will become worse and worse (2 Timothy 3:13). The direction of this world is downward. Everything connected to it, including the religious system, is heading down with it. Stop defending and protecting what God has already judged and set apart for destruction. Don’t be destroyed with it. Build your house on a rock (Matthew 7:24-27) so you can withstand the wrath coming upon the whole earth, or not. Just keep frittering your life away on stuff that doesn’t matter and see where that leaves you when all that is written comes to pass.

In Revelation Jesus starts talking about each of the churches in Asia, He points out the things they are doing well and the things He is not pleased with. In the case of Laodicea, He had nothing good to say about them. It was all rebuke. He said you are lukewarm and I’m going to vomit you out of my mouth – a bunch of arrogant, poor, blind, miserable naked people. And believe the view of Revelation that says those seven churches in Asia represent seven distinct ages of history, and if you believe we are living in the last of those ages, then we are living in the Laodicean Age, when God has nothing good to say about the state of things in the Church.

"And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot, I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock, if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Revelation 3:14-22

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