Laodicea — the church that made Christ sick

Full Rev 3:14–22. City history: wealthy banking center (Cicero: Laodicea handled Roman commercial finance); aqueduct delivering lukewarm water (cold from Colossae, hot springs from Hierapolis — both arrived tepid); famous eye-salve industry. The rebuke trades on each of the city's identity-markers: "thou sayest, I am rich… and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." No commendation — the only letter with none. Promise: to sit with Christ on his throne.