Jesus in Revelation 3:16 says: Because you are Lukewarm neither cold nor hot I will vomit you out of My mouth. This scripture has been misused many times, because the heart behind it is not perceived. Being Lukewarm has a meaning that is explained by Jesus Himself: “Because you say, \u2018I am RICH, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing\u2019\u2014and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked\u2026”. Later He adds: “I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be RICH”. All these terms are metaphors, explaining the condition of the church, His Body, spoused to Him as a Wife. The analogy is drawn from the Garden of Eden when Eve gave the fruit to Adam, her husband, and he ate it to, instead of vomiting it out of his mouth. Christ, on the other hand, shows how the Word that must be eaten by the Church must come from Him, and not her. When Adam and Eve partook of the same fruit, both became Naked, and Blind to the Truth. Had Jesus eaten from the fruit the Church often eats, He’d have done what Adam did, leaving Eve naked. It is the Love of Christ for the Church that causes Him not to partake of the same fruit (Word, Teaching) but constantly instruct and correct her, just as He says: “As many as I love, I chasten and rebuke\u2026”. That’s how He lifts up the Church from being beaten by the serpent, to rule over serpent, sitting on His throne.<\/p>\n
Major points:<\/p>\n
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- The symbolism in Rev 3:14-21 is entirely based on Genesis 3:1-24<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Adam and Eve of the Garden<\/a> point at Christ and the Church.<\/li>\n
- Adam listened to the voice of His Wife, and by doing so ‘ate’ her fruit.<\/li>\n
- Christ does not listen to doctrine of the Church, rather He vomits it out.<\/li>\n
- Christ comes ‘in’ and ‘dines’ with us, of the Doctrine of Christ, not the Doctrine of the Church.<\/li>\n
- Listening to the Doctrine of the Church leaves one ‘Poor’.<\/li>\n
- Listening to the Doctrine of Christ makes us ‘Rich’.<\/li>\n
- Following the Church reveals our nakedness.<\/li>\n
- Following Christ clothes us with His covering<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Vomiting out of mouth is not a punishment, but an act of Love.<\/li>\n
- Love always corrects<\/a> because Love doesn’t one His Beloved to taste Death of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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[The following is the full transcript of this teaching from our new YouTube series \u2018What Jesus Meant<\/a>\u2018.\u00a0 Please note that this video, like all videos, features Rose and Masoud speaking unrehearsed\u2013they are unscripted and unedited, filmed in one take.<\/em>]<\/p>\n
Masoud:\u00a0<\/span>Hey guys, thank you for joining us for another session from what Jesus meant series. Today we’re going to look at Revelation chapter three, verse 16, where Jesus says, I will vomit you out of my mouth. I myself have heard many actually take this verse and use it in a condemning way in the church. But today, we want to see what it meant. And what is the depth behind this. Because Jesus Himself definitely said that His words are life. So there is no place that we’re going to find out him condemning, or judging in a negative way, someone. So Rose, what have you seen about this verse?<\/span><\/p>\n
Rose: <\/span>Like, as you said, This verse is one of those verses that, there has been a lot of teachings on it and there has also been some misinterpretation about it.\u00a0 So Jesus said a lot of things throughout the Gospels, or even the book of revelations that we need to understand them in a new way or a better way. So this is one of those verses that so many people were concerned about. So if you go to Revelation 3:14, Jesus is writing this to a church that is called lukewarm. The lukewarm church is only a title that the translation has given to this church. But actually, we can see from the name of the church, what does this church mean. If you look at Revelation 3:14, it says,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The word “Laodiceans” means \u201cJustice for people\u201d. Jesus is writing a letter to a church, that was supposed to bring justice for the people. And the reason is, if we look at the end of His letter to this church, verse 21, after Jesus goes through some verses and talks to the church about the issues that they have. And then finally, he says,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cTo him who overcomes, I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat with my father on his throne.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Jesus is telling to this church that, if you overcome what I’m about to tell you, then you can sit on my throne. And again, the name of the church is the justice for the people. That means this church, Even though they were the body of Christ, they were in the authority, they were supposed to sit on the throne of the kingdom of their Father and bring justice for the people and do what their Father did. But this church wasn’t doing what they were called to do. And so I’m not sure if the title of “Lukewarm” is a good title for this church. But we want to see what does it mean that Jesus says in verse 16,<\/span><\/p>\n
because you are lukewarm, that you are neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So we just want to look at the scriptures and let the scripture interprets another scripture. So let’s look at the verse before that and see what Jesus is talking about In that context.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cI know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot, I could wish you were cold or hot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What Jesus is saying that, you are something in between, you are neither hot, hot, hot, or you’re neither cold, cold, cold. If we take a look at these two words, cold and hot in Greek translation, and look at the roots of these words, we will see that the word cold comes from the word \u201cPsycho\u201d, which is translated in English as \u201csoul\u201d. So the word cold is driven from the word soul. And if you look at the word Hot, and study this word in its original language, we realize that it’s driven from the word Spirit. So here it talks about the church which is not fully in Spirit, neither is fully in Soul. The church that has mixed the two together. They are not hot in the Spirit. And they’re not even cold in soul. What they have done is, they have taken some stuff from the Spirit, and they have mixed it with the soulish understanding. And they have turned to something that is lukewarm. So when we say lukewarm, we mean something that was hot, but over time has lost its heat. Like hot water which over time looses its heat. That’s why it’s lukewarm. So we have \u201c Hot\u201d which is referring to the fullness of the Spirit, and \u201cCold\u201d as it refers to the Soul.<\/span><\/p>\n
Masoud : Y<\/span>ou’re saying that basically the word cold and hot, are attributes of the soul and the spirit. So when somebody is cold, he’s basically operating out of the soul when he’s hot, it means he’s operating out of Spirit, and when we say lukewarm, it’s something in between, which means even though he’s cold, he seems to be hot, or he’s basically trying to look like someone who is in Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n
Rose: Exactly, <\/span>So now we can look at some verses and see what does it mean that you’re lukewarm, that means you are hot and cold mixed together. Let’s see verse 17, that Jesus continues talking,<\/span><\/p>\n
because you say, I am rich…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And let’s jump to the middle of the verse:<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201c and do not know that you are rich, and you are miserable. You’re poor, you’re blind, and you are naked.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u00a0So what does it say? It says, you say that you are hot. But what you really are is that you are cold. You think you’re hot, you think you are in the spirit, you think your words are saying what the Spirit is saying, so you say you are in the spirit. But the Truth is, you are Not.<\/span><\/p>\n
Masoud:\u00a0<\/span>So basically He says that you are saying But before that, He said I will vomit you out of my mouth. I mean, it’s not possible that somebody would be in His mouth, right? Nobody can be in somebody else’s mouth. So when Jesus says I will vomit you out of my mouth, He must be speaking in metaphor or figuratively, trying to say there is something that is in my mouth, That is from you. That has two options, either to go in, into my stomach, meaning I will eat it, or I will send it out.\u00a0 just to vomited out.<\/span><\/p>\n
Rose :\u00a0<\/span>Exactly. So that’s why if we look at verse 20, Jesus says,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cBehold, I stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Wait a minute here. So Jesus is standing at the door and knock so he’s standing at the door of the house, of a person. He’s standing at your door, He’s knocking at your door. And then he says, If you open the door, then I will come to him and dine with him. And he with me?\u00a0 This is what Jesus says: “I come to your house”.\u00a0 And if I come to your house, then you’re the one who’s going to prepare the table, then you’re the one who is making the food. Then we will sit together and we will eat. So as we see here, Jesus is talking about eating. But a few verses Before that, he says, I will vomit you out of my mouth. So what are we seeing here? we see here is something that this church wants Jesus to eat. And Jesus says, No, I am not going to eat.\u00a0 Jesus in the beginning of His letter to this church, says: No, no, no, no, what you want me to eat, I am not going to eat. And I’m going to spit that out of my mouth. Because you are not hot. Because you are lukewarm. And we will see shortly what does that mean. But if you remember, a similar story happened in the Garden of Eden in Genesis chapter 3. We see a man and we see a man’s wife. And here we have the church as the bride as the wife. And we have the husband, the Christ, who is our head, who is the husband, and the body, the church is the wife. So what happened in Genesis, chapter 3 is that, the wife <\/span>offered her husband to eat from the forbidden tree. So those of you who know the story in Genesis chapter 3, you know it was the woman who gave the man to eat, and Adam ate it. And we all know according to Romans, chapter 5, because of the disobedient of Adam, death reigned on us. That was not supposed to happen. So basically, the corruption came to the world, because man listened to his wife, and God told him:<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cbecause you heeded the voice of your wife.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
He didn’t say, Adam, because you ate the fruit. But He said, because you heeded the voice of your wife. So what did Adam really eat? It was the voice or the words of his wife. So Jesus now standing here and saying that what happened in Genesis between husband and wife, between man and woman, is not going to happen here, and I am not going to eat the words that you want to put in my mouth. We saw that the reason that Jesus comes and eats of your fruit, is that, you heeded His voice, this we can see in verse 20,<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cbecause you heard my voice, now we can dine together.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So basically, what Jesus saying is, you know what, because you have heard my voice, your voice becomes my voice. And now we can eat together, because now we are sharing the same words, we are sharing the same food together. <\/span><\/p>\n
What He said is similar to His response to pharisees\u2019s question, where they asked Him:<\/span><\/p>\n
why don’t you wash your hands? The food you’re eating, if you eat it with unclean hands, it makes you unclean. And Jesus said, No, what goes into your mouth doesn’t make you unclean, but what comes out of your mouth, from your own heart, that makes you unclean. So what does it mean? That means what comes out of your mouth, is your words, your words become your food. And if you eat that word, some of them make you unclean. Some of them defile you.<\/span><\/p>\n
Even Jesus said: A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit, how can you who are evil,<\/span> speak good. So we can see constantly here, the fruits that we are eating, are the words that we are speaking, or the words that we are hearing. So here in Genesis, Adam heeded the voice of his wife. So that means he believed what his wife said. he ate, what his wife offered him to eat, and he ate the words of the woman, and the corruption came to the world. But here, Jesus says, No, I am not going to eat what you want to give me. Something that is the mixture of the soul and the spirit. But I will eat with you if you heed my voice, because the moment you heed my voice then you speak my words.<\/span><\/p>\n
Masoud: <\/span>So you’re saying that the story that we read in Revelation, chapter 3, Jesus speaking, concerning vomiting out of his mouth, is what we read in Genesis 3 about the story of God, the first man, the first woman and the two trees? And God said that there is only one tree you can eat from. But when the woman ate from the forbidden tree, she also gave that to Adam and Adam was supposed to refuse to eat what she gave him. That’s exactly what Jesus does here. He says, Now, church is my Eve, and I refuse to eat what you give me. And the story of the garden, what she gave to Adam was nothing less than her words. So here what the church has given to Jesus and is against His words, which definitely are not the truth, but something that looks like the truth. And we’ve seen that over and over and over how religion or how religiosity or how zeal for God without knowledge produces that kind of word. It’s something that seems to be like the word of God, but it’s not, it just brings forth death. So like, let’s say the words of the law, how they produce death, rather than life. And the story of the garden was about the tree that would bring life, fruit would have life, or a fruit that would bring forth death.<\/span><\/p>\n
Rose:\u00a0<\/span>That’s right. So that’s why it’s interesting, because now Jesus is writing to this church. And this church was supposed to bring justice for people. And the justice that the church was supposed to bring is by sitting on the throne, overcoming temptation and bring that justice, for the judgment, the righteous judgment of God,<\/a> which we\u2019ve talked about it in the previous sessions. So all of these are referring to the words we are speaking. So let’s look at verse 17, again, it says:<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>\u201cbecause you say, I am rich, have become wealthy and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What does it mean \u201cI am rich\u201d. Let’s look at verse 18:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cI counsel you to buy from me gold refined in fire, that you may be rich and white garment that you may be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and to anoint eyes, with eye salve that you may see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So we don’t have time here to go through every single words that Jesus talks about here, but to briefly explaining, all of His words referring to something that is happening internally, inside of man that brings man into an understanding of believing the Word, and then speaking the Word, and then living the Word. Let’s look at the word “Rich” today and understand that better. Let’s go to James chapter 2 verse 5:<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cListen, my beloved brethren, has God not chosen the poor of this world, to be\u00a0 rich in faith and heir of the kingdom, which He promised to those who love Him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Heir of the kingdom? What did Jesus say to that church? If you overcome you will sit on the throne? Where is the throne? Throne is in the kingdom. And what do you do when you sit on the throne? You reign.\u00a0 How do you reign? By the words of your mouth. But how is it going to happen? It says when you are rich. All the kings of every kingdoms, are trying to be rich, everybody is trying to be rich, they want to have power. And here tells us that you know what the richness of a king in His Kingdom is? The Faith<\/strong>. As we talked in the previous session<\/a>, that the kingdom of God is the kingdom of the Truth. The truth is reigning\u00a0 and ruling in the kingdom of God. But we must fight for it, because that is our wealth. When we fight, we fight for the riches, and that wealth is the Faith.\u00a0 So here James talks about it in this manner, God has chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith. So who are the poor of this world? Those who are poor in faith and in Spirit. God has chosen them, and make them rich in what they never had in the world. Which world? The one that was not of above. So we need to be rich in faith. And this is how we can inherit the kingdom of God.<\/span><\/p>\n
Masoud: <\/span>So when Jesus says, because you say I am rich, but then He says, You’re not rich. But then He says, but I counsel you to buy from me gold refining fire, that you may be rich. None of those things are a natural representation. They are all spiritual, or there is a spiritual understanding and meaning behind it. Gold is a spiritual term. fire is a spiritual term. Lukewarm is a spiritual term. Being rich is a spiritual term. All those things, have nothing to do with, let’s say somebody that is wealthy or rich in this world in terms of like finances. Everyone of those things have a deeper understanding. Now it says, because you say I am rich in faith, but you’re not. You’re very poor in faith, you haven’t yet arrived, you haven’t yet achieved but you think you have arrived. So what is a lukewarm is someone that actually says, but he’s not. He says I am. But he’s not. Let’s say when you say I’m the son of God, you haven’t fully manifested being a son of God, you haven’t reigned and judged and served like a son of God, you just said it like just a confession that I am a son of God. But there is no action or there is no decision towards what has been claimed, let’s move on toward actually making this a reality. So when He says, because you say, but you’re not, that’s when you understand what the lukewarm is. Not that this is something to condemn. Right after that. He says: \u201cI counseled you.\u201d As He says, Now I can give you something that can really make you rich. I can give you gold refined in fire, that means there is something there is no impurity in it. But gold is the purest form of metal in this world. And he uses that to say, what I give you even is more pure than that even that very small residual of any impurity is gone. From the gold that I gave you, and that makes you rich in the Faith.<\/span><\/p>\n
Rose: Yes, w<\/span>e can even see that in 1 Pet 1:5:<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cwho are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, If need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
- Adam and Eve of the Garden<\/a> point at Christ and the Church.<\/li>\n