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Laodicea is together with Ephesus the only community that's mentioned in the New Testament (Col. 2:1 and 4:13-16). This city is known for famous black whool ("i will give you white clothes" verse 18) ,embroided robes and a medicine for eyes, called Frygic Powder (see verse 18 also). She was a very arrogant town, when she had an earthquake, the habitants built up their own city, and refused all help! Oh, and this city also contained hot and cold wells, which were used as some kind of sauna. Verse 15 illustrates this well. this community stands for the present time till the rapture, from 1948 (when Israel was restored). It speaks of worldliness, because they are lukewarm, which is even worse than cold... They love they're richness and they're sell suffientcy, while one should be sufficient from God.--- Paul describes a bit of Laodicea, and it was known for it gnosticism (which is also very modern these days). Gnosticism is a new age like thought, that there is no good or evil in the original ways. There is the earthly, that's bad, and there is the spiritual, that's good. They cannot believe Jesus came to be in a real human body, that would be horrible, so they only believe that Christ came spiritually, and has not really died. They claim they have mysterious knowledge of this world. See the internet for more information, and see that it looks like the new age thoughts now...

--- "See I stand at the door and I knock" --- this mostly is seen as personal and for repentance etc (which is no wrong), but what it really means in this context, is that God is OUTSIDE the church. He stands outside, and knocks... This christian community has Jesus not in it... Of course in the beginning Jesus was inside, but love for the "kosmos" (earth), He left, and they didn't even miss him... (recognisable? I can see a lot of churches doing the same today).