Heavenly Marketing

Studying the message to Laodicea, we saw that the Faithful Witness advises us to buy very valuable goods from Him. The Lord uses familiar expressions from the trading system, making it clear that until you pay, you won't receive. The most I was capable of was reading what He offers me to buy, without delving into the meaning and principles. But now, studying this message more deeply, I understood the importance of such transactions and the colossal value of the proposed assortment. And this is not just one of the recommendations, but the most vital guidance that can decide my eternal fate.

While I was unaware and passed by the Laodicean shop, nothing was expected of me. I simply grew in the rays of God's glory and gave the Holy Spirit power to change my character into the image and likeness of Christ.

In spiritual growth, there are stages of faith and steps of maturation. I can stop, I can go back, I can review my values or consider myself knowing everything. And at a certain moment of my growth, the Lord leads me to His store in Revelation 3:18 and very insistently advises me to buy what is displayed for sale. My mind suddenly lights up. I begin to understand that something very great and inaccessible that I did not know before is being revealed. Something new and extremely important penetrates my heart. I buy the eye salve, anoint my eyes, and begin to see what is being offered. But this is not all.

The Heavenly Merchant desires that I draw other blind people who consider themselves sighted and very rich into this trade. But at the same time, I should not abandon my own trading agreements. It would be very stupid to gain the whole world for Christ while harming my own soul.

I recall a conversation with a sister who consciously left the world, wrote a statement to the church council about her exclusion, but boasted to me that before this act, she managed to bring all her children to Christ and lead them to water baptism. Considering her maternal duty fulfilled, she left the ranks of her fellow believers and began to live for her pleasure. We are still friends and communicate, and I have hope that she will come to her senses and change something in her view of life, but for now she considers herself free and acts as she thinks right.

But God has children who have not gone into the world but, remaining in the church, have broken with Him and lost Christ. Knowledge of the law helps them stay in shape and observe the letter. They diligently live in the light of all revealed reforms. A little earlier, the Lord rebuked such people in Revelation 3:1-2: "...I know your works; you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found your works perfect before My God." But our Lord is unique in that He can resurrect the lost and revive the dead.

Jesus invites all who wish to His store, and He does not mind if the lame, crippled, and sick come. The Lord rejoices when we bring our paralyzed friends on stretchers, wanting Him to heal them. Jesus is very pleased to deal with those who want to save their neighbors, but more than anything, He wants to save me so that, preaching to others, I do not prove unworthy.

The plan of Heavenly Laodicean trade includes involving all one's neighbors and spiritual friends in this business. Simply bringing them to Revelation 3:18 and telling them to buy what is offered is not enough. Heavenly marketing has its own laws, its own order, its own expectations, and rewards.

Any merchant, examining your business, can quickly determine your weak and strong points and predict how long you will continue in your endeavor. God's work is also a business that depends significantly on the human factor. One entrepreneur dedicated to God can allow the Lord to bring about colossal changes in society's consciousness. Take the example of Joseph, Moses, John the Baptist, Martin Luther, and other reformers of their time. And we are no exception.

God has many levers of influence through which He can attract attention to His message and convince people to accept His plans, but He desires to use me to conduct His advertising campaign, open new "fishing spots", sow seeds, harvest, attract other friends to the Heavenly business.

I do not want to belittle anything or anyone in my or your eyes, but the deeper I delve into the message to Laodicea, the more I understand the special importance of its acceptance at the very end of time. I clearly see that what is offered in Revelation 3:18-20 will play a key role in the final events of Earth's history. I would like to think differently and seek an alternative elsewhere, but it is no longer possible to forget what has been so clearly and thoroughly revealed.

The war of the last time will have an informational character, where a special way of thinking will be imposed on us by threats and persuasion. And it will be possible to resist this seduction only by having the fullness of God's love and faith, living in the transformation of character into Christ's likeness and having Heavenly wisdom from the Holy Spirit. And I can buy all this in the Laodicean store by making a payment determined by God. I do not know how God will end history through me, but if I accept His plan and respond to His advice, He will come to me and teach me everything He considers necessary to reveal.

God is gathering a team of active buyers of His goods. When I hear the expression "gold, refined by fire", then humanly I do not even think about what it is and how much there is, but when an endless ocean of this gold opens before me, which I cannot comprehend not only with a glance but even with imagination, then I understand that nothing will withstand such power. And the name of this ocean is "faith and love", which I must buy. And I am not sold a small bucket, but the entire fullness of this abyss, and I cannot buy a little and be satisfied. I am doomed to eternal trade until this infinite space becomes mine forever and I transition into God's eternal property. Having such revelations, I cannot pass by. I must do something, otherwise everything I have will be taken away from me.

Further, as a diligent buyer, I acquire White clothing. All the shame of my nakedness is covered. But this is not some robe, but the fullness of God's light, enveloping and permeating me from the inside and outside, which reveals everything unclean in me and removes it with my permission.

Acquiring eye salve, a cosmos of boundless possibilities opens before me, and in this product, I receive all the Heavenly wisdom necessary for victory in the final events. But the Lord calls me to be diligent, zealous, and active in this trade, to repent of my ignorance, assuring me of His love and gently punishing me for my mistakes. Then He stands at the door of my heart and knocks, wanting to enter and teach me how to use all this. How interesting!

The Lord desires that I, having understood the meaning of these symbols of Heavenly goods, involve all my neighbors in this trade, and if they refuse, to go out on the roads and hedges, inviting everyone who wishes to come to the wedding feast.

Questions for Reflection on this Chapter

1. Please read 1 Timothy 4:11-16; 6:19; Revelation 3:18-20; Isaiah 50:4; 55:1-3; 60:22; 1 John 5:11-13; Exodus 15:18; Hosea 4:6; Psalm 138:23-24; Proverbs 10:25; Isaiah 57:15; 60:19; Daniel 12:3-4; Jude 1:21; Jeremiah 31:3; John 6:54; Galatians 6:8 in light of this chapter.

2. What did you understand from this chapter?

3. Do you understand what you are being offered to buy in the message to Laodicea?

4. Do you believe that something great and inaccessible that you do not know is hidden in the symbols of Heavenly goods?

5. Are you pleased with the prospect of the upcoming trade?

6. What should be done if I understand with my imagination what Jesus offers in Revelation 3:18, but with my eyes see only this world?

7. In the lesson, the Laodicea goods are presented as infinite realities. Is this really so? Do you have a different understanding or interpretation?

8. What should I do if I see nothing in Revelation 3:18 and do not understand what you are talking about here?

9. Do these lessons mislead you or contain revelations about something very important?

10. What will happen to those who do not pay attention to Revelation 3:18 and continue to live as they are used to?

11. Is there anything in common between the message to Laodicea and the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25:1-13?

12. Is there any other message for the last days after the message to Laodicea?

13. Are you not tired of exploring Revelation 3:18 so extensively?

14. Is it worth paying attention to what the Faithful Witness advises us to buy?

15. What awaits those who neglect God's counsels?