Welcome to Laodicea. What? You are not in Laodicea you say? Well maybe you are and maybe you are not. That is after all the point of what this is all about. And sadly, there are many people, including myself, who do think we are indeed in Laodicea. Let me explain. In the book of Revelations starting in Chapter One, John is told to write to the Seven Churches in Asia Minor. The last of these Churches that he writes to is the Church of Laodicea. Now those ‘letters’ are seen in two different ways. The first is the view that they were simply letters that John was supposed to send to those churches at the time he was writing the whole of Revelation. Revelations or the Book of Revelation is one of the most controversial books in the Bible. Most of the book is argued over and has been argued over for most of its existence. As a part of the book, the letters to the churches are also argued over. To some they were simply letters that were to be sent out to those seven churches by the author of Revelations. Meaning that they were simply letters to be sent then and only applied to those churches and only at that time. To others though those letters were letters to the ‘church’ at different times in its life. The Bible uses the term ‘church’ in two ways, either as a particular congregation in a particular place and time, or as the collective term for all the followers of Christ. It is in the second tense of the term that one can see that the letters to the churches were meant for a larger audience. If one excepts the concept that the churches in Revelation were indeed the different eras of the Church, then the letter to the Laodicean Church was written to the people who follow Christ right before the “End of Times.” Why? Because it was the last Church written to before John is shown his vision of what was to come in the end.
So we need to answer a few questions now. 1. What does the bible say about the end of times? 2. What do we need to do to prepare for it?
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