Who is Laodicea? It would be unlikely that anyone who has been "in" then "out" of the Local Church of Witness Lee would not not recognize the description of Laodicea from Revelation 3. Especially Rev. 3:17 highlighted below. Pride and arrogance are one hallmark of Witness Lee's "ministry", which continues in the LC leadership to this day.
What about the remainder of the Lord's brothers who come together in organized “churches” around the globe? Laodicea is everywhere. He knows the works of all his children. A serious warning in Rev. 3:22: if you have an ear to hear, hear what the SPIRIT SAYS to the churches. Listen to the Spirit...not the men who are in leadership. It's important to have an ear to hear the Spirit.
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Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things said the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue you out of my mouth.
17 Because you said, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
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1 Timothy 4:1 - Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. ...
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I don't recall that Lee, et al, practiced "forbidding to marry" but I do know that they, practiced arranging marriages...maybe they still do. Abstaining from meats is "commanded" globally as part of the "Green Cult".
Even so, there is a declaration of love to Laodicea and call for repentance.
Again, who is Laodicea? Is the church in America near the time of being spewed out of His mouth?
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