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The King Is Coming, October 18, 2026

The King Is Coming, October 18, 2026

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The King Is Coming with Jeff Kinley Wake the Bride, Episode 1: The Lukewarm Church at Laodicea Jeff Kinley launches a new teaching series called Wake the Bride by opening Revelation 3's letter to the church at Laodicea, tracing why lukewarm faith provokes Christ's harshest rebuke and how he still offers a way back. Opening a New Series Called Wake the Bride Jeff Kinley opens The King Is Coming by quoting Christ's promise to let repentant believers reign with him, then plays the show's theme before returning to introduce a new teaching series called Wake the Bride, drawn from his book of the same title and built around waking up the churches addressed in the book of Revelation. He tells listeners today's focus falls on the last of those seven churches, Laodicea, which some Bible scholars believe pictures the last-days church because of where it falls in Revelation's sequence. Before diving into the text, the broadcast runs two sponsor appeals: one for the Incomparable Christ DVD set describing Jesus as unique among history's figures, and one for As It Was in the Days of Noah, Kinley's series on parallels between Noah's culture and today's. Both offers ask for a gift of forty-five dollars or more to World Prophetic Ministries. Kinley then returns to Revelation chapter 3, reading the opening address to the angel of the church at Laodicea. The Wealthy City of Laodicea Kinley traces Laodicea's place among the Asia Minor cities, noting it sat near Colosse, where Paul tells the Colossians his heart struggles for a church he never personally visited, and near Hierapolis, whose hot springs fed Laodicea's water supply after running cold springs down from Colosse as well. He describes roughly 7,500 Jewish men living in the city and explains Paul's usual pattern of preaching first in the synagogue before moving to the marketplace. Kinley then details Laodicea's famous wealth, recalling that after a devastating earthquake in 60 AD the city refused financial help from Rome, confident in its own banking and commerce. He lists its other claims to fame: soft black wool woven into clothing and carpets, and a renowned medical center that produced an eye salve called Phrygian powder, said to restore eyesight. This wealth and self-sufficiency, Kinley notes, sets up everything Christ is about to say to the church. Christ Identifies Himself as the Source of Creation Kinley turns to how Jesus addresses the Laodicean church, calling himself the Amen, a word meaning yes, it is true, let it be so, found throughout the New Testament wherever Scripture reads "verily, verily." He explains that Jesus also calls himself the faithful and true Witness, meaning every word he is about to speak can be fully trusted, just as he is described in Revelation chapter 1 and as he declares himself the truth in John 14:6. Kinley then addresses the phrase "the beginning of the creation of God," explaining that the Greek word arche does not mean Jesus was the first created being, a view he associates with Mormon teaching, but rather that Christ is the source and spring of all creation, citing John chapter 1 and Colossians chapter 1. He notes this mattered because a local heresy in nearby Colosse taught that Jesus was merely an emanation of God rather than God himself, an error Paul's letter to the Colossians was written to correct. A Lukewarm Church That Makes Christ Nauseous Kinley explains the background of Christ's rebuke that the Laodiceans are neither hot nor cold. Hot water from Hierapolis and cold water from Colosse both arrived through aqueducts already turned lukewarm and mineral-laden, so unpleasant that visitors would spit it straight back out of their mouths. He links this to the Greek word emeo, meaning to vomit or violently reject, and says Jesus uses it because the church is not passionately for him or openly against him, just indifferent. Kinley calls this cultural Christianity, religion without relationship, and connects it to Jesus' warning in Matthew 7 that many who performed miracles in his name will still be told, "I never knew you." He walks through warning signs of lukewarmness: self-sufficiency, misplaced priorities, neglected prayer, and church growth mistaken for spiritual health. Quoting A.W. Tozer's remark that most churches would barely notice if the Holy Spirit left them, Kinley compares the condition to Samson, who did not realize the Spirit had already departed from him. Gold, White Garments, and Eye Salve Kinley reads Christ's diagnosis in verse 17, that the Laodiceans call themselves rich and in need of nothing while actually being wretched, poor, blind, and naked, and then his offered cure in verse 18: gold refined by fire, white garments, and eye salve. He points out Jesus deliberately uses Laodicea's own exports, its banking wealth, its wool, and its famous Phrygian eye salve, to show that true riches, righteousness, and spiritual sight can only come from him. Turning to verse 19, Kinley explains that repentance ...
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