In uncertain days, it is important to remember that our world is getting ready to meet God.

We are all getting ready to meet Him.

The King is coming.

Today, we join Scott Pauli in walking through the final book of the Bible, the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

You would think that the church that would be most on fire for the Lord, most wide open for God,

would be the church living and laboring just before the return of Jesus Christ.

And yet, in Revelation chapter 3, we get a picture of the church in the last days,

typified by the church of Laodicea. And it is anything but a church on fire.

It's a church lukewarm. It is anything but a church open to God. It is rather a church that is closed

up in so many ways. Listen to Revelation 3, verse 14. And under the angel of the church of the

Laotoceans write, these things sayeth the amen, the faithful and true witness,

the beginning of the creation of God.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.

I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot,

I will spew thee out of my mouth.

It's pretty rough, isn't it? God says, you make me sick. He uses an object lesson they would have understood. Just outside of Laotica, the Phrygian mountains were high and snow-capped, and the

Laodiceans built aqueducts that would bring cold water down.

But the problem was, by the time it got down to the city, it was lukewarm.

And on the other side, down in the valley, the Likas and Meander Rivers, there were hot springs

that produced steam.

But by the time they carried it up to the city, it was no longer so hot. It was lukewarm.

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