3:14 “To the messenger of the church in Laodicea, write: The amen, the witness who is faithful and true, the source of God’s creation, says:
“To the messenger of the church in Laodicea, write:
- the Hebrew behind the Greek Amen means 'the acknowledgment of that which is sure and valid'.
- it is the human response to divine truth or action.
- therefore, Jesus is the perfect AMEN of obedience and suffering for God, His Father.
- Paul parallels this in 2 Corinthians 1:20-22.
- the speaker to the angel to the church at Laodicea goes back before the creation of the universe even to the beginning of God (John 1:1-5). Jesus has been forever ... not in the physical human form but as one part of the three-part God.
- so listen up, Laodicea (and all other Christian churches)!!!
(continued in the next verse)