What seperates us? We all would say, we observe the Shabbat, given!..And we observe His Called Out days to read and recite, given! We all try our best to know the "real" name He asked us if we know Him and His Set-Apart by, Proverbs 30:4, given! And we all try our dang est to observe His Torah, given!
Now what I was trying to convey about them, (laodiceans) and God looking in, is just what Yada has mentioned numerous times about close counterfeits, and how they are actually the very worst of the worst, just b/c they are so beguiling, they can and have tricked the set-apart ones too, and so close a counterfeit, that it pulls Yahowsha to its very entrance before even He recognizes Satans ploy and then sounds the warning about them.
So I continue to believe God showed us a parallel in the beginning that we can use in the ending, and that's the seven ill cows, choking down the seven well cows in the 1st book.
Genesis.
41:19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and lean fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
41:20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
We know Yahowsha spoke of, the kingdom to come, in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyathira, Sardis, Philadelphia (Hi All), and of course, all those in the Laodicean assembly(gathering) we knew and loved in the Laodiean (those who legislate) assembly today, where we even ourselves, in parallel, lived once too b/c it is so close. But that is the worse. By being so close, (lukewarm)..haha, Luke, we are deceived by a closeness that I'm glad Yahowsha stopped me from ever entering again.
Pauls visits consisted of these, and if you parallel these, with Rome being his last, [ill cow] [RCC], it has choked down the last, [well cow][Protesters who legislate] the Laodiceans. They should have continued their protest and not got eaten. But they were either worn down and gave in, and let learning stop. I view them as happy in their merriment the RCC has given them.
Pauls assemblies ended up wolfing down Yahowshas assemblies in the end. Crete, Thessalonia, Colossi, Phillipi, Galatia, Corinth and Rome are the seven ill cows. He was garmented to appear as a sheep, and got so good at it, that only those that are scattered (us maybe?) recognize the wolf and his ploy for the adversary.
Matt: 24, 24
For there shall arise false messiahs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
I ask, who hears voices all the time and who witnesses to miracles continually and are doing healing's constantly? We all know who. Why they cast out demons in exorcisms as they call on their Lord. I think we see they can do these things, but at whose bequest are these answered, their Lord, of course.
The reason I used protest with the Laodiceans is because when you have a right to protest, it's usually so you can change some type of legislation.