John Mark Hicks

Blog on Revelation 3:14-22 available here. The congregation at Laodicea was wealthy, proud, and self-sufficient. But Jesus says they are poor, naked, and blind. They compromised their witness by living comfortably with a culture that was hostile to Jesus; they compromised their allegiance. They need wealth refined by fire, white robes to cover their shameful […]

Though often called the “letters to the seven churches” (with somewhat good reasons), the address to each church functions as a prophetic oracle. John has called his work a “prophecy” (Revelation 1:3) and in these “letters” the prophet calls the churches to respond in faithfulness much like Israel’s prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures. Laodicea was […]