The Apostolic Mob Of The Lord's Recovery - The Usurpation Of God's Throne

[PeterG]

Originally Posted by Nell

You think denominations will someday be abolished? Where do these verses fit in?

Rev. 3: 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Nell

I think the last epistle describes almost perfectly the era the of evangelical churches, including the so-called "local churches". In some way, they are the worst of all because they were rich in knowledge, even regarding the final step God wants to take with his people. As God's "little flock," they should have patiently taught the denominations about God's problem with them. They should have worked to overcome the problem, receiving people according to God's Son. Instead of this they messed it up. They became a denomination themselves, and a particularly cultic one.