Letter To the Church of Prosperity (Rev. 3)
John, take this dictation:To the Power of the congregations of Prosperity:
From the One who spoke the truth of what He saw in heaven, the one with integrity and faithfulness, the one who became the beginning of God’s act of setting aside this world in order to make a new one:
I know all that you have done, and you are nothing. You aren’t my enemy, nor are you zealous for Me. You faithfully come to church and sing my praises, and you do nothing with them! I would prefer that you were zealous against me than just proclaiming me and never living it! You are mediocre, and thus you are disgusting to me. I am ready to cast you away from me.
This is because you say, “We are rich! We have obtained everything through faith! We need nothing—not health, not wealth, not power, not prestige. We have it all!” You have no idea how you look in the spiritual realm. I see you before me and you are a beggar: miserable, hand stretched out, crippled, in rags. But you refuse to take what I offer. I offer you true wealth, if you would but surrender your false wealth, but you reject it. I offer you true healing in your soul, but you reject it to take healing of the body. I offer you the proper clothing of righteousness, but you reject it to dress yourself in the sad garments you fill your closets with. I offer you true knowledge and you prefer your blindness. If only you would accept my offer! You stand in public in the most shameful display and I can fix all of your weaknesses!
I love you, and so I will discipline you. I rebuke you now, but only because I really want you to live. Here I am now, I am at the door to your church. I would come in, but you must first repent. Invite me in—who I truly am. And we will truly be family, eating together as brothers, sharing together with the poor.
The one who is victorious over his own wealth and desires, I will grant him to sit on my ruling throne with me. I was victorious through poverty and death—he who follows me in this will be victorious with me.
If anyone has ears, pay attention to what God says to his people.
Labels: Letters to Seven Churches, Revelation, Revelation 3
posted by Steve Kimes @ 9:17 PM
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