Revival: Our Great Need Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study: Rev. 3:14–21, Heb. 12:7–11, Matt. 25:1–13, Zech. 3:1–5, Song of Sol. 5:2–5. Memory Text: “ ‘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’ ” (Revelation 3:20, NKJV). Laodicea is the last church in Revelation’s sequence of seven churches. The name means “a people judged.” It is also a fitting symbol for God’s last-day people. Laodicea was located in an open valley in southwestern Turkey. It was an important financial capital, a fashion mecca, and an educational and medical center. Its inhabitants were independent, self-confident, and rich. The one vital natural resource that the city lacked, however, was water. The water was piped in via Roman aqueducts from a spring that was five miles south of the city. By the time the water reached Laodicea, it was lukewarm. Jesus uses that symbolism to represent the lukewarm condition of His last-day church, described as self- confident, complacent, apathetic, and spiritually indifferent. It is a church that has lost its passion. It is a church that needs a spiritual revival. Nevertheless, the Laodicean message is filled with hope. Christ speaks to His people in love, offering to meet their heart needs and revive their deepest spiritual longings. *Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, July
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