Saturday, March 20, 2021

Revelation Chapter 3 (R03c2)

        Church of Laodicea

Last Days Church
Jam 5:1-6  Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
  This last Church of Laodicea is a good example of today's rich and powerful endtime churches, who have robbed God by hoarding up His money meant for His ministries.
   God warned the End-time churches and Christians:-
1. not to rob God by heaping up treasures on earth in stocks, properties, bank deposits and valuables.
2. ensure that His numerous ministries in mission and caring for the poor and needy are properly funded.
3. to beware that labourers are fairly treated and they are not crying to the Lord for low and unfair salaries
4. not to waste God's money pleasuring themselves and living in luxury 
5. to ensure that faithful and godly Christians (just) are respected, and not persecuted, reviled and destroyed by false testimonies.
However, if they do not repent, God will ensure that they will suffer great pains seeing their wealth disappear.
2 Tim 3:1-5 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud,  blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

Rev 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
  Are you aware that your sickness, sorrows, trials and deficits in life are God’s chastisement for you, out of His love? He wants to set you free from your sinful ways if only you would repent.
  Do not be deceived into thinking that these are demonic attacks. If God could not keep the devil in check, then He is unworthy to be your Father God.
Note:  No one can touch nor harm you without the approval of our Father God.

Rev 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
  The Lord is calling out to you incessantly to repent of your covetousness. Will you turn over a new leaf and welcome Him into your life by loving Him instead of loving the world and the things therein? 
I John 2:15-16  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

Rev 3:21-22  "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
   Can you believe that if you can overcome the sins, evil and wickedness in the end time, you can sit on the throne of God in heaven as His bride (or sons) and help Him rule the whole heavens (including angels)?
   Yes, because you have converted (sacrificed) your earthly glory and wealth for heavenly rewards.
1 John 3:1-3  Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.