Satan in Laodicea
We will all live happily everafter in wonderland....
Revelation 3:14-22 LEB "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: "This is what the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God's creation, says: (15) 'I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! (16) Thus, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth! (17) Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked, (18) I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, in order that you may become rich, and white clothing, in order that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to smear on your eyes, in order that you may see. (19) As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. Be zealous, therefore, and repent! (20) Behold, I stand at the door and knock! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, indeed I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me. (21) The one who conquers, I will grant to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also have conquered and have sat down with my Father on his throne. (22) The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"
This is the fifth and final part of a series outlining the activities of Satan within the Church Age, that period of the Age of the Gentiles between 95AD and concluding at The Rapture.
You can access the activities of Satan in Ephesus from this link.
Access the activities of Satan in Smyrna and Pergamum from this link.
You can view the activities of Satan in Thyatira from this link.
You can view Satan's activities in Sardis from this link.
You can view my essay on Satan’s activity from all history from this link.
Before I start my commentary on this important topic, please re-read the verses above that represent Jesus’ warning to all believers in this current age.
The Industrial Age commenced in the middle of the 19th Century, coinciding with Jesus’ prophetic revelation to the Church of Laodicea. Since that time, mankind has never been more wealthy in all of history.
This article is a call to all churchgoers who sit under the fig tree of unimagined comfort (comparatively) to take a moral and spiritual audit to see if indeed you are an overcomer, a warrior for Christ.
In this letter, Jesus makes an appeal He made in no other letter to the other six churches:
Revelation 3:20 LEB Behold, I stand at the door and knock! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, indeed I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.
The Letter to Laodicea is the last and seventh of YAH’s letters……
Seven is YAH’s glorious number of completion…….
There is no eighth letter…..
Let that sink in for a bit….
As the Psalmist says….
SELAH.
The end of Laodicea is the end of mankind as we know it!
Satan has made war against the saints since the birth of Christ, sometimes in outrageous criminal disrespect of humanity, but mostly in the subtlety of his perpetual question “Did YAH really say……?”
Revelation 12:17 LEB And the dragon was angry at the woman, and went away to fight against the rest of her children, those who keep the commandments of God and who hold to the testimony about Jesus.
How did we become so lukewarm?
Matthew 6:24 LEB "No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.
The Industrial Age spread wealth to the majority as we transitioned from subsistence farming-based activities to the larger cities where jobs were aplenty for those willing to work for wages. This age saw the boom of convenience-based living. Communication became simple with the advent of the telephone and railways across the nations improving convenience and travel times. The motor car and the airplane made the scourge of distance obsolete, and the advent of new drugs helped us abuse our bodies with flavorsome but lifeless food. We developed more sophisticated weapons to enhance our capability to obliterate each other.
In all the technology we now see we have lost the ability to see inside another human’s soul, to really see them and bless them with the source of our Truth. We allow our Government to brainwash our children with the latest manufactured lie including the removal of Yahusha from our schools. We cannot protest if our children decide they want to be the opposite gender. We teach our children it is OK to have sex with a same-sex partner. We teach our children it is OK to marry someone of the same sex.
Our corporations have become thought police for the Government in a newly fascist dictatorship where the brainwashing is absolute.
This is Satan’s greatest impact on humanity.
What of Our Churches?
We have focused on tickling the ears of assemblies in a blatant satanic perversion.
2 Timothy 3:1-9 LEB But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come, (2) for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, (3) hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good, (4) traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God, (5) maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these people. (6) For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires, (7) always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. (8) And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified concerning the faith. (9) But they will not progress to a greater extent, for their folly will be quite evident to everyone, as also the folly of those two was.
The goal of every lover of Christ is to be holy……
Heaven is for the sanctified…..
The set-apart ones……
What have we allowed to infect our spiritual growth?
Comfort!
Paul penned the above prophetic verses to BELIEVERS!
SELAH!
How Do We Live From Now On?
Churches and Pastors will not save you!
The Institutional Church is corrupted by money. They are a business and holiness is less of a concern than feeding the professionals that run them.
The answer is personal holiness.
Live your life in the concentric circles of Romans 12-16.
Love Yahusha with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength by sacrificing your life in exchange for His.
Love your family and sacrifice yourself for their greater understanding of holiness.
Love those who commune with you in your place of worship. Let your holiness be a beacon to your fellow believers to pursue holiness.
Love those around you who are not believers and encourage them to pursue Truth through a relationship with the living Christ.
And lastly, uphold the law where it does not compromise any of the above.
Satan cannot survive in your orbit when you live like this.
It is time to move from Laodicea to Philadelphia!
Revelation 3:7-13 LEB "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: "This is what the holy one, the true one, the one who has the key of David, the one who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one can open, says: (8) 'I know your works (behold, I have put before you an opened door that no one is able to shut) that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and did not deny my name. (9) Behold, I am causing those of the synagogue of Satan, the ones who call themselves Jews and are not, but are lying—behold, I will make them come and kneel down before your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. (10) Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to put to the test those who live on the earth. (11) I am coming quickly! Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown. (12) The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go outside again, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God, and my new name. (13) The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Repent and believe! Laodicea is ending soon!
Your Kingdom Priest (Rev 1:6)