Our friend Jack suggested we add a stop in Colossae today and it was spectacular but not excavated yet So there’s so much to learn still.
Laodicea: One of the Seven Churches (Rev 3:14-22), famously “lukewarm” (neither cold nor hot) and rebuked for spiritual complacency and wealth. It was a prosperous banking/medical/textile center near Colossae and Hierapolis (Paul mentions Laodicea in Colossians 4:13-16). The church was advised to buy “gold refined in the fire,” white garments, and eye salveSo there’s so much to learn still.
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Hierapolis. Here, we will visit the Martyrium of the Apostle Philip, where he was martyred during the persecutions ordered by the Roman Emperor Domitian. We will also see the Gate of Domitian, the Arcadian Street, the ancient 2nd-century Roman Theatre, the Nymphaion, the Temple of Apollo, the Plutonium, and the Necropolis.
Walk around the grave monuments built to honour heroes. Each tomb is a miniature work of art telling a different story.
Laodicea, which hosted the Laodicean Church, is another of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor. We will see the ancient theatre, the remains of a basilica, and a glorious ancient city. Laodicea thrived as a major centre of worship for the pagan goddess Aphrodite for about 500 years after Christ. The Christians of Laodicea, one of the Seven Churches (Rev. 3: 14-22), were chastised for being lukewarm, “You are neither cold nor hot” (Rev. 3: 15), and for being too comfortable incorporating pagan and Christian beliefs.
Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
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