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I've always been a little confused by Jesus' statement to the church at Laodicea aabout being lukewarm. I could rationalize a need for hot, but cold was never understandable as an analogy to me. Preachers have always said that hot was serving God with all your might and lukewarm was namby pamby. But they never addressed cold. I looked this up on gotquestions and here is what they said. "In Revelation 3:14–21, the Lord is describing the “lukewarm” heart attitude of those in the Laodicean church, an attitude manifested by their deeds. The Laodiceans were neither cold nor hot in relation to God, just lukewarm. Hot water can cleanse and purify; cold water can refresh and enliven. But lukewarm water carries no similar value. The Laodiceans understood the Lord’s analogy because their city drinking water came over an aqueduct from a spring six miles to the south, and it arrived disgustingly lukewarm. Laodicean water was not hot like the nearby hot springs that people bathed in, nor was it refreshingly cold for drinking. It was lukewarm, good for nothing. In fact, it was nauseating, and that was the Lord’s response to the Laodiceans—they sickened Him, and He said, “I am about to spit you out of my mouth” (verse 16)." It makes perfect sense to me, but only if the historical assertions are true. Does anyone know anything about these aqueducts? Gotquestions did not give a source.
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