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That the Messiah is talking about the Laodicean Church of Revelation 3:14 is
quite apparent in Luke 12:35-36: "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; and
you yourselves be like men who WAIT FOR THEIR MASTER, when he will return from
the wedding, that when HE COMES AND KNOCKS they may open to him
immediately." This parallels Revelation 3:20: "Behold, I stand at the door and KNOCK.
If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him,
and he with Me."

Yeshua then explains that He came to bring DIVISION to this earth: "Do you
suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, NOT AT ALL, but rather division.
For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against
three. Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter
and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-
law against her mother-in-law."

Why would "the Prince of Peace" bring division to a home and, in the greater
sense, to His church? Because everyone will not accept the TRUTH of YEHOVAH God!
Those of the "Laodicean" spirit will not accept "new truth" from YEHOVAH, nor accept
His warning message without rancor. Some in the Church of God become angry when the
FACTS of their spiritual barrenness are laid out before them, and DIVISION ensues. The
TRUTH of YEHOVAH God has always brought division, because it sorts out the men
from the boys -- those who are luke-warm and compromising from those who have a
burning desire to get as close to YEHOVAH God and His way of life as possible.

Further proof that Yeshua is talking about the Laodicean Church is found in the
next verses from Luke 12:

Then He also said to the multitudes, "When you see a cloud rising out of the west,
immediately you say, 'A shower is coming'; and so it is. And when you see the
south wind blow, you say, 'There will be hot weather'; and there is.
HYPOCRITES! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it
YOU DO NOT DISCERN THIS TIME? -- Verses 54-56.

How PERFECTLY this describes the Churches of God today! The Worldwide
Church of God, under apostate leadership, has derisively thrown prophecy out the
window -- a full ONE THIRD of the Bible! They say that we should be more concerned
with our "spiritual temperature" than excitedly anticipating and waiting for the return of
YEHOVAH God and our Lord and Savior -- "counting down" to that much prophesied
event. No wonder they are BLIND to YEHOVAH's calendar and the correct day of
Pentecost! This culmination to the Passover season was EXCITEDLY anticipatedby the
Jews -- to such an extent that they COUNTED THE DAYS and crossed them off as they
passed -- until the "day of Lawgiving" was nigh. This takes devotion and spiritual ZEAL,
something that the Worldwide Church of God and her sister congregations have lost.

Yeshua continues this condemnation by exhorting His people to REPENT --
repent or perish. "There were present at that season some who told Him about the