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Originally Posted by Unregistered
In the booke of Revelation, the Lord speaks to the churches and it is a solemn warning to His loving believers. Some believers in Ephesus left their first love. Some believers in the church in Pergamos hold to teachings of the nations. Some believers in Laodicea are lukewarm in their love for the Lord, thinking they have need of nothing and they are counseled to buy gold and eyesalve that they may see. This is not hatred speaking from the Lord. It is to enlighten believers and warn them. Same when RK and MR use these portions of the Holy Word. Looks like you need some eyesalve that you may see the intentions and motives of these two brothers, huh?
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Well, if this is the same unregistered who started this thread......you are just not much fun, are you?!
But I'm glad you returned.
Can you do me a favor? Google "laodicea eyesalve".
Read the first couple websites about it. There's not much information, but it's there, and it's significant to the solemn warning of the Lord in Revelation 3.
Notice that Laodicea was known for it's famous eyesalve. In other words, due to it's wealth and reknown about a few things - eyesalve being one of them - they really, really thought they possessed a lot. Like, everything they needed. Like, they had no need of anything.
But the Lord told them.....this place that took so much pride in its famous eyesalve.....that they were actually blind. What a shock that must have been for them to hear! This is like telling some crude-oil-rich country that they are poor! It just doesn't compute!
The problem is, unregistered, the speaking in the local church is so painfully similar to what Laodicea thought about itself.
Laodicea said: "....‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’" (Rev. 3:17)
But the local church says exactly that! They say:
"We have all the light"
"We have all the riches"
"We have the pure ministry"
"We have no need of anything from anyone else"
This is "how to speak Laodicean 101!"
The point of eyesalve is not to see the intentions of other people like you have said here:
"Looks like you need some eyesalve that you may see the intentions and motives of these two brothers, huh?"
The Lord admonished them to buy eyesalve from Him so they, who thought they had no need of anything, could really see. They could really see that their haughty claims of self-sufficiency really showed just how lacking and blind and pitiful they were.
Please keep coming back. Maybe at a certain point we'll get to discuss things rather than just encountering your own finger-pointing and blame?
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