The rebuke is directed primarily to its clergy ("the angel of the church of the Laodiceans") who feel proudly "rich and increased with goods, in need of nothing" when in God's sight they are THE one [in history] "wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked" ~Robert J. Wieland
Paul Penno
What does our Lord Jesus Christ call for in Rev 3:14-21? His call to “repent” is addressed to the leadership, and it is denominational. We cannot understand the true import of the Laodicean message when we suppress the facts of our own denominational history.