Revelations Is That Book of Essay

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The author expresses this when he describes the church as "neither cold or hot." It is easy to fall into the patterns of Christianity, thus becoming neither hot or cold. The author cautions the church in Laodicea that going through the motions of Christianity will cause it to be spit out of the mouth of God on Judgment Day.

"17 for you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see." In these two lines we begin to have a sense of the identity of the author; the author of the letter to Laodicea is the temptation, evil, perhaps the Anti-Christ himself.

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The author seems to know the spiritual sustenance of a true and faithful believer of God needs and receives from God daily nurturing of the body, mind.

The author tempts the already wealthy church with that which appeals to it, and that which has perhaps caused it to become lukewarm in its faith -- "fired gold" and white garments to conceal who they really are and cause them to appear as others (faithful believers) around them. The last sentences make it difficult to know if this is a temptation or if the author is speaking to them only in the language that they best understand.

This is probably why spiritual leadership and trained guidance is a good thing.

Tim LaHaye (1999), author of Revelations Unveiled, points out that this is interesting because Laodicea was destroyed by an earthquake in a.D. 62.

LaHaye (1999) reminds us that 28% of prophetic Scripture must be perceived….....

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