With their apathy came a spiritual blindness; they claimed to be rich, blessed, and self-sufficient. Perhaps they were rich in material things. But, spiritually, the Laodiceans were in a wretched, pitiful condition, made all the worse in that they could not see their need. This was a church filled with self-deceived hypocrites.
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And in MY belief this is what happened to the Catholic Church when George kicked Our Pope Benedict out and went in as the ‘False Prophet’ ...
Our Church now is greedy, and sinful and doesn’t not serve its flock as Jesus would like it to be served...and we kicked God out of our Country because a few ‘non believers’ didn’t like God...and now this many years later we have seen what has happened by not believimg in Our Lord and His Word..
He hasn’t left people like you and I because we believe deep down in our hearts and we hear God’s Words because we have His spirit with us...but so many don’t and it is sad for when the day that God does come back...
Thank You stars & stripes forever...I hope people pick up their Bibles and start reading again...George chose the name of St. Frances because the real St. Francis was a very Holy Man who followed the Word of God...
Keep in mind that all seven of the Revelation Churches were accused of the same thing...ignoring/losing The Faith.
I include in my morning prayers a request for the Holy Spirit to cleanse His Church.