Laodicean Cross

Notice the “cross” (Col. 1:20, 2:14) is still relevant to these last days of the “Laodicea” (Col. 2:1) stage of the Church age (cf. Rev. 1:11, 3:14), right before the rapture (see 1 Cor. 15:52; 1 Thess. 4:16-17; Rev. 3:10, 4:1)—and the apocalyptic events of the Book of Revelation. “Laodicea” is mentioned by the Apostle Paul at the outset of the Chapter 2 as a ‘heading’, and the Holy Ghost commends us (Laodicean church stage Christians) to the “cross” of Jesus Christ in the Scripture verse 14.

Don’t forget either, when the Lord Jesus Christ addresses “the church of the Laodiceans” (Rev. 3:14), in the same Chapter (Rev. 3), only 4 verses earlier, the Lord Jesus Christ references the tribulation (i.e. “...the hour of temptation...” (Rev. 3:10) [cf. Dan. 12:1; Matt. 24:21]); and promises to keep overcoming (see 1 John 5:4-5) Church Age Christians out of it. Therefore this is a proof that “Laodicea” is an eschatological church. And since “Laodicea” is mentioned 5 times in the Epistle to the Colossians (see Col. 2:1, 4:13, 15, 16)—Colossians is therefore an eschatological Epistle. And since Christ’s “cross” (Col. 2:14) is written of in Chapter 2: the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is still that eschatological/apocalyptic doctrine. (cf. Rev. 11:8, 13:8)