Yet Jesus threatens to remove certain "candlesticks" who would not return to the first love and repent of lukewarmness. God can take stones and raise up "Orthodox churches." One must repent of sins and not be as Israel who were at ease because they had the temple and were in Zion. Instead, the Day of the Lord came to them swiftly because they did not obey him, despite the notion they were God's people.
Yet Jesus threatens to remove certain "candlesticks" who would not return to the first love and repent of lukewarmness. God can take stones and raise up "Orthodox churches." One must repent of sins and not be as Israel who were at ease because they had the temple and were in Zion. Instead, the Day of the Lord came to them swiftly because they did not obey him, despite the notion they were God's people.