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Laodicean Lackadaisicalness - Part 5


See the series here

Are we witnessing the last legs and laps of
Laodicean lackadaisicalness?

In many respects, Church Americana correlates itself with the nation of Israel, both ancient and modern nations. Conveniently, however, Church Americana omits at least three extremely important correlations with ancient Israel, correlations that speak to the current Laodicean Church trait - lukewarmness. (See the series)

#2. Strangers, Widows and Orphans: The Old Testament is replete with God’s encouragements, admonitions and judgments against Israel and Judah regarding His expectations for treating strangers (gentile immigrants), widows and fatherless orphans. Eventually, these nations were severely judged as noted earlier for their adamant infractions against God’s laws and warnings.

So how does this correlate with the Laodicean Church trait? In many nations, churches today, especially Church Americana, have become relatively well-off, wealthy from affluent lifestyles. For example, consider the growth of mega-churches around the world. Though America began as an immigrant nation, today significant political factions have ‘flipped’ in terms of their views on immigrants. This has been a trend over several decades in the face of the so-called ‘browning of America’, with increasing non-white immigration and statistical evidence of the declining majority white race. Within these factions, immigrants, once welcomed, both legally and illegally, are now demonized

Relatively wealthy and comfortable in the lap of American affluence, the so-called right-wing evangelical church, writ large, is widely regarded as a key faction in these groups. Its political influence is being felt both nationally and internationally, yet it seems blind and deaf concerning how its actions correlate:

(a) with ancient Israel and Judah’s actions that attracted God’s harsh judgments,
(b) with core New Testament tenets about winning souls for Christ, and (
c) with the general image Christ intends His Church, to reflect and represent to the onlooking, unsaved world. 

Rather than any notion of love, whether human love or the love of Jesus Christ, many across the world reportedly perceive real hate emanating from Church Americana. This is concerning and is also evidence of Laodicean character traits. In His warning to that church, Jesus warned, through Apostle John:

…You say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’. You do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be [spiritually] rich; and white garments [righteousness], that you may be clothed, that the shame of your [spiritual] nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see [spiritually]. Be zealous and repent…

Ancient Israel and Judah failed to ‘see’ the extent to which their sinful actions made them abhorrent to God. With Israel’s priests’ sins, one time The Lord was so scornful, that He dispatched the prophet Malachi with this message:

‘I will smear on your faces feces from your festivals!’ 
(Malachi 2:3, KJ and YLT versions)

Worse yet, in their sinfulness, some continued in their Jewish religious exercises, often in parallel with their sinful worship and sacrifices to idol gods. They were effectively naked and blind, spiritually. Similarly, Church Americana is naked and blind to what the onlooking world sees in its very public, often un-Christian attitudes and actions. 

I so strongly perceive this may well be the leading edge of backsliding, lukewarmness and out-right apostasy that Paul twice predicted would occur in the closing years of this current, 3rd age of human history! If so, apostate Christians will very likely miss the Lord’s next, group rapture event. Many of those who will live to transition to the short 4th age of history, the tribulation age, and who will return to Christ, will face the predicted beheading fury of the anti-Christ regime! They will be in the first multitude Apostle John ‘saw’ in Revelation 7. (For more on this, see: Audacious Christians (Series), Tribulation Age Precrsors: Roads Beckoned, Then Taken (Poem), Human History Ages (Series), and anti-Christ (Series).)

Lesson for Lackadaisical Laodicean Christians:
Avoid selective correlations with ancient Israel