Latter-day Message
to Laodicea
Jesus
sends one of His angels to the seventh church, the church of Laodicea. The
number seven denotes “completion” in the Bible. The Laodicean church is the
last of seven churches that Jesus gives counsel to in the book of Revelation
(ch.2-3). He informs this church that it is spiritually “lukewarm”. What does
this mean? Out of all the seven churches Laodicea is the one most condemned.
Especially today, Christianity seems to have no relevance to
the things going on in daily life. Many Christians go to church and attend
worship with indifference. Christianity, to many denominational Christians, has
become a routine and merely meaningless. This is the state of spirituel
“lukewarmness”. This defines most Christians today.
Jesus also warns the Laodicean Christians that they think of
themselves as wealthy, they have all the basic necessities and exhaust
themselves in the numerous realms of self-entertainment. Ancient Laodicea was
concerned with latest fashions, clothing, perfume, and special herbal
medicines. Though they were materialistically satisfied, Jesus says that they
are spiritually poor, blind, and naked.
Jesus counsels them to “buy” from Him “gold refined in
fire”. Jesus is speaking not of literal gold and fire but is referencing the
“gold of true faith” tried by the vicissitudes of life, the “fire” of personal
experience. There is a reference to this counsel found in Isaiah the prophet
(Isaiah 55:1-3). God says here; “Come buy wine and milk.” The “wine” is the
eucharist (“blood of the new covenant” – Mark 14:24) and the “milk” is the
“milk of the word” (“spiritual milk” - 1st Peter2:2).
They are to “buy without money” (Isaiah 55:1). The cost is
actually the hearing of the Truth. You must “give your ears” to listening. “Why
spend money on what is not bread and your labor on what does not satisfy?
LISTEN, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the
richest fare.” (Isaiah 55:2) True faith comes through hearing (Romans 10:17).
If you are a begotten child of God, it is time to listen to
the counsel to Laodicea – the Seventh Epochal Revelation. As a Christian you
should know where you are at in prophetic history. If you do not know where you
stand as a Christian, you have no point of reference to start anything. So as a
Christian where are you? You are in the second earth age, the sixth
dispensation, in the seventh church epoch.
Since the first epochs of the first six churches, God’s
church has become denominated - broken apart into differing groups and sects.
Jesus prophesied that this would happen (Matthew 26:31). Those who, in these
last days, accept the final counsel to Laodicea should “buy the gold refined by
fire” and return to the true “body of Christ” (first called “Christians” in
ancient Antioch, Acts 11:26). These latter-day Christians make up the John
Class and comprise only one-third of those professing to be Christians today.
God informs us: “This third I will bring through the fire; I
will refine them like silver and test them like gold, they will call on my name
[Jehovah] and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they
will say, ‘The Lord [Jehovah] is our God.” (Zechariah 13:7-9)
These final septenary mysteries are now being revealed to
the true church. These truths were to be “sealed up” to the “time of the end”
but are now, by God’s grace, being revealed through the Laodicea counsel. The
John Class will understand prophecy clearly. God spoke to the prophet Daniel
regarding this issue; “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and
sealed until the time of the end. Many will be purified, made spotless and
refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will
understand, but those who are wise will understand.” (Daniel 12:9-10)
“In days to come you will understand it clearly.” (Jeremiah
24:20)
AACG (October 2nd 2025)
Understand the Laodicean Lampstand
Above: Presbyter King gives message regarding living our faith to help Laodicea.
*Laodiceans Growing Closer to Jesus Christ
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