It is actually better to be cold than to be lukewarm? This quote has always confused me. Besides, wasn't Jesus long dead by the time John the Revelator penned those words?
I meant "long dead and resurrected"
It doesn't say it is better to be cold...that verse says "I would rather you cold than luke warm..."(when you look at the entire passage)
It is a comment on integrity versus wishy washiness. God seems to have more respect for the soul that is antithetical to him as opposed to those who "sit on the fence". The ones who are antithetical(or cold) to God are often souls who are in fact crying out for God, but just can't let go of their presumed claims to self ownership.
The lukewarm mouth platitudes in the name of Christ and may practice a kind of ethical ministry, but tend to pull back on their zealousness when real persecutions or difficulties challenge them...indeed don't such folks(such as "moderate" voters) raise a kind of mental queasiness in your mind when ever you contemplate them? One does want to "spit" them out in a sense when you consider such folk?
This is what i believe Christ is speaking of!