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Old 01-03-2024, 06:50 AM   #1
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Default Who is Laodicea?

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. ...
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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Old 01-03-2024, 07:04 AM   #2
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Default Who is Laodicea? - #2 Another warning

Another serious warning: 1 Peter 4:17
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
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Old 01-08-2024, 05:36 AM   #3
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Default Re: Prophecy - The End Times

Does any of this sound familiar…maybe from the news lately?

The Seals

Rev. 6 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d] and do not damage the oil and the wine!”

7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” 11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters,[e] were killed just as they had been.

12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us[f] from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their[g] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
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Default Pope Francis blesses sin

Pope Francis blesses same sex marriage.

"A seismic and prophetic event just happened in our culture end-time - Jonathan Cahn exposes it and what it means for the end-times and your future ..."

What do you think? Is this the most obvious apostacy of the end times to date?

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Pope Francis blesses same sex marriage.

"A seismic and prophetic event just happened in our culture end-time - Jonathan Cahn exposes it and what it means for the end-times and your future ..."

What do you think? Is this the most obvious apostacy of the end times to date?

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“Come out of her My People.” Rev 18.4

This should be a wake-up call for my Catholic friends and family.
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Old 02-09-2024, 07:22 AM   #6
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Default A verse that didn't exist: Isaiah 62:18

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So, over a period of about one week in total, God gave me a very strong word regarding upcoming judgment that seems to match passages where the same language pointed at war. I cannot tell the scope of the war, but it seems to me that it is not too far off. We already have growing conflict in the Middle East. Since God did not give me a specific sense of timing, I won’t speculate.

I am not going to add any further summary. I will leave it to the reader to consider the things shared here before the Lord and I pray the Lord will speak to your heart.

– A. Layman"

Read all of the message from God here:
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Default Re: Prophecy - The End Times

Nell, I’ve had some thoughts recently on these verses in Revelation 13 which have long been troublesome to Bible scholars.

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13 And the second beast [the False Prophet] performed great signs to cause even fire from heaven to come down to earth in the presence of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast [the Antichrist Beast], it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the [the Antichrist] beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived. 15 The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed.
How could an image speak? The prophets of old often would mock those images of wood, stone, or metal because “they had eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, etc.” Recent technology has, in a sense, changed all that. Have we not seen robots with “faces,” which could also walk and talk?

Now let’s put together several additional recent technologies. A robot with a face that could talk. Add WiFi, AI, facial recognition, wireless charging, and these NSA super computers which are recording our every online action.

Let me now present a frightening and completely realistic scenario. A famous world leader who brought peace and security to us, will be recently assassinated. A perfect body double with matching face and voice is built. This image, which never needs sleep, could walk into a room with other leaders and could recognize each of them. AI would enable convincing undetectable conversation. The image could piece together one’s entire life and personality based on their online history with total recall. Every time the image “sat down” its battery was charged.

Think about it. Someone who “knows” you and knows everything about you, apparently better than you do. Is this not “God.” Would not the many be deceived into worshiping the image as “God.”
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