08/19/17 WELCOME TO LAODICEA I might be leaving soon

08/19/17 WELCOME TO LAODICEA

I might be leaving soon

POINT BY POINT
Laodicea, the last of the seven churches addressed by Jesus in the book of Revelation.
The seven churches of Revelation 2 and 3 actually existed and actually received letters from John, dictated by Jesus.
The seven churches represent the entire history of the Church Period, the Church Age, the Church Dispensation.
Each church represents a specific period of Church history.
Laodicea represents the last period of Church history, the last period of the Church Age (the Church Dispensation).
After the seven periods (after chapters 2 and 3) the rapture takes place and the Tribulation begins.
The words "church" and "churches" are mentioned a total of 20 times in the book of Revelation.
Four times in chapter one (the introduction to the book and the portion that addresses "that which was" (the past).
Fifteen times in chapters two and three "that which is"portion (the Now or Church age).
Zero times in chapters 4-21, the "that which is to come" portion.
One time in chapter 22, the closing remarks of Jesus to the churches

The Laodicean Church is the worldwide church that will exist in the last days of the Church Age.
The Laodicean believers who are living at the very end of this period will be raptured away.

The Laodicean period is a transition period from the Church Age to the Tribulation. After the rapture the Church is not on the earth at all during the Tribulation or Great Tribulation.

Thus...
WELCOME TO LAODICEA with a dragon, representing the coming antiChrist.
I MIGHT BE LEAVING SOON with an arrow pointing up.

I don't claim to know how long before the rapture, but I am fully persuaded we live in the Laodicean Period.

Revelation 3:14-22
(14) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
(15) I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
(16) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
(17) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
(18) I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
(19) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
(20) Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
(21) To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
(22) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.