by Eugene Shubert » Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:17 pm
Ellen White wrote, "the message to the Church of the Laodiceans is a startling denunciation" (Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 3, p. 252).
Indeed it is.
"What greater deception can come upon human minds than a confidence that they are right when they are all wrong! The message of the True Witness finds the people of God in a sad deception, yet honest in that deception. They know not that their condition is deplorable in the sight of God. While those addressed are flattering themselves that they are in an exalted spiritual condition, the message of the True Witness breaks their security by the startling denunciation of their true condition of spiritual blindness, poverty, and wretchedness. The testimony, so cutting and severe, cannot be a mistake, for it is the True Witness who speaks, and His testimony must be correct." (Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 3, p. 252-253).