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The Fate of All the Laodicean Church Militants in Outline Form

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Dear Reader,

Here is what the Lord has shown me concerning all the Laodicean church militant denominations in outline form for articulation purposes that others might more easily comprehend the truth of the final Loud Cry shaking message to all organized churches.

God showed me that the people of poorer countries could copy this outline of my warning message on a few pieces of paper and be able to give the message easily.

"The state of the Church represented by the foolish virgins, is also spoken of as the Laodicean state." E. G. White, Review and Herald Articles, Vol. 2, 420.

Obviously, from the above definition of Laodicea—the foolish virgins, Laodicea does not go through. It is only the wise virgins who are finally gathered out of Laodicea who will be saved. That will be proven beyond a particle of a doubt in the following study. That is a most startling Revelation to all who have believed that Laodicea goes through.
All denominational church militants are Laodicean:
"The warning for the last church [Laodicea] also must be proclaimed to all who claim to be Christians. The Laodicean message, like a sharp, two--edged sword, must go to ALL THE CHURCHES:...It is our work to proclaim this message. Are we putting forth every effort that the churches may be warned?" Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 77.
All the 10 virgins slept. Matthew 25:5.
The bride awakens first. Isaiah 62, for in verse 11, she is instructed to say something to her daughter.
The bride is awakened by God, as Jesus awakened the disciples. Then she awakens the 10 virgins. COL, 405-6.
In 1844, the bride was Philadelphia awakening the other churches. Ellen White said that they all are Laodicean.
The wise virgins in those churches heeded the call of the bride to go out to meet Him.
Laodicea consists of both wheat and tares. They are to dwell together until the harvest.
But if the leadership becomes foolish virgins who will NEVER AGAIN, show the House of Jacob its sins, the following warning is applicable:
When Laodicea repents and buys what she is counseled to buy in Revelation 3, she is no longer Laodicean—lukewarm.
Historic Laodicea, circa the time of Christ, never repented as a church body. She was spewed out.
“(Col. 4:12, 13). Labor Lost on the Church in Laodicea.—[Rev. 3:15-22 quoted.] This is the testimony borne concerning the church at Laodicea., This church had been faithfully instructed. In his letter to the Colossians, Paul wrote: “Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.” Much excellent labor was bestowed upon the Laodicean church. To them was given the exhortation, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” But the church did not follow up the work begun by God’s messengers. They heard, but they failed to appropriate the truth to themselves, and to carry out the instruction given them. The result that followed is the result always sure to follow the rejection of the Lord’s warnings and entreaties (MS 128, 1903). SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 964.
So there you have an inspired statement that Laodicea was lost and is lost as the foolish virgins.
"If the church of God becomes LUKEWARM [LAODICEAN] it does not stand in favor with God any more than do the churches that are represented as having fallen and become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Those who have had opportunities to hear and receive the truth, and who have united with the Seventh-day Adventist church, calling themselves the commandment keeping people of God, and yet possess no more vitality and consecration to God than do the nominal churches, will receive of the plagues of God just as verily as the churches who oppose the law of God." E.G. White, Letter 35, 1898.

“When we see the regular lines are altered and purified and refined, and the God of the heavens mold is upon the regular lines, then it is our business to establish the regular lines.” E.G. White, Spaulding-Magan Collection, p. 162-168.
“The present showing is sufficient to prove to all who have the true missionary spirit that the regular lines [organization] may prove to be a failure.” E.G. White, Spaulding-Magan Collection, p. 175. Written to Brother Daniels, June 28, 1901.
The church became Laodicean before it was organized. All churches are Laodicean said Ellen White.
So the call of the bride is to all Laodicean churches. What is her call? COL 405-6.
But there is another element to consider. Laodicea became infected with THORNS, OPEN SINNERS--OPEN SIN THAT INVOLVED GROSS, OMEGA APOSTASY.
Laodicea did not reform such sinners or remove them if they would not reform.
Scripture and the SDA Bible Commentary both say that THORNS choke the wheat and make it impossible for the wheat to mature.
"The thorns of sin will grow in any soil they need no cultivation but grace must be carefully cultivated. The briers and thorns are always ready to spring up, and the work of purification must advance continually.... The thorns that have been cut off but not uprooted grow apace, until the soul [and/or the church] is overspread with them." E.G. White, Christ's Object Lessons, p. 50.
"The gospel seed often falls among thorns and noxious weeds and if there is not a moral transformation in the human heart, if old habits and practices and the former life of sin are not left behind, if the attributes of Satan are not expelled from the soul, [and/or the church] the wheat crop will be choked. The thorns will come to be the crop, and will kill out the wheat." Christ's Object Lessons, p. 50.
"Thorns sprung up.--The thorns made it impossible for the wheat to mature (see Luke 8:14). In the same way secular interest prevent the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23) from reaching maturity. Religion is relegated to the subordinate position of being only one interest among many. For lack of cultivation it withers and eventually dies. That which the thorny-ground hearers lack is a moral transformation (COL 50). To them, justification is the sum and substance of religion, and they fail to realize that the Christian life consists essentially in the process known as sanctification--the process by which evil traits and tendencies are replaced by the perfect life-pattern of Jesus Christ." SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, 405.
Thorns teach a false gospel--the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans--that justification is the sum and substance of religion and say that sanctification is not meritorious toward our salvation. Thus, that leaves one thing--ONLY BELIEVE, the doctrine of the Nicolaitans that God especially hates.
Were it possible for the wheat to dwell with open sinning, apostate thorns, there never would have been the need for any separation among God’s people over the ages.
So the wheat must leave the OPEN SINNERS to mature, when ordinarily they would remain with the tares until the harvest.
This scenario has been enacted at various times in history; notably the Reformation and 1844.
This scenario is in progress now and will continue until the Loud Cry to all churches.
The bride is awakened by God for she is to be undefiled with women (apostate churches).
The bride is the true Reformers:
"Characteristics of True Reformers.--Here are given the characteristics of those who shall be reformers, who will bear the banner of the third angel's message, those who avow themselves God's commandment-keeping people, and who honor God, and are earnestly engaged, in the sight of all the universe, in building up the old waste places. Who is it that calls them, The repairers of the breach, The restorers of paths to dwell in? It is God. Their names are registered [written--Heb. 12:22, 23] in heaven as reformers, restorers, as raising the foundations of many generations." E. G. White, SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, 1151.
The bride will be taken out in the wilderness Ezekiel 20:34-38.
The tares are shaken out of the Kingdom (Matt. 13:47-50) by the bride out in the wilderness--giving the final Loud Cry with the aid of the Holy Spirit to all the inhabitants of earth. She will be helped by many who accept her call and give their lives in martyrdom.
Such martyrs will be seed for fruit.
The bad are thus shaken out of the church triumphant (bride), and not out of the various church militant denominations.
The bad are shaken into the various church militant denominational churches for burning and melting (Ezekiel 22:17-31).
The rebels are shaken out of the heavenly church (Heb. 12:22, 23--Matt. 13:47-50), by the Loud Cry shaking message of the bride church triumphant.
Christ Object Lessons, 405-406 confirms this scenario.
Ellen White said that Ezekiel 9 is literally repeated.
"Study the 9th chapter of Ezekiel. These words will be literally fulfilled yet the time is passing, and the people are asleep. They refuse to humble their souls and to be converted. Not a great while longer will the Lord bear with the people who have such great and important truths revealed to them, but who refuse to bring these truths into their individual experience. The time is short. God is calling will YOU hear? Will YOU receive His message? Will YOU be converted before it is too late? Soon, very soon, every case will be decided for eternity. Letter 106, 1909, pp. 2, 3, 5, 7. (To "The churches in Oakland and Berkeley, September 26, 1909.)" E. G. White Manuscript Releases Volume One, p. 260.
Ezekiel 9 Begins at God’s church—Begin at My Sanctuary -- "Here we see that the church--the Lord's sanctuary--was the first to feel the stroke of the wrath of God. The ancient men, those to whom God had given great light and who had stood as guardians of the spiritual interests of the people, had betrayed their trust. They had taken the position that we need not look for miracles and the marked manifestation of God's power as in former days. Times have changed. These words strengthen their unbelief, and they say: The Lord will not do good, neither will He do evil. He is too merciful to visit His people in judgment. Thus 'Peace and safety" is the cry from men who will never again lift up their voice like a trumpet to show God's people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins. These dumb dogs that would not bark are the ones who feel the just vengeance of an offended God. Men, maidens, and little children all perish together." E. G. White, Testimonies, Vol. 5, 211.
The following evidence of ecumenical involvement is a violation of strictly forbidden practice according to Isaiah 8:9-13. For this the SDA church militant will be broken in pieces. (See the marginal reference for “a slaughter weapon,” Ezk. 9:2—“a weapon of his breaking in pieces).
In the 1985, the World Council of Churches, published a Directory of Christian Councils. In that publication, Seventh-day Adventists are listed as MEMBERS of the WCC in the following countries:
Hong Kong
The Bahamas
BelizeSweden
Cook Islands
Hungary--The church admitted in the Review that it had been a member of the Council of Free Churches in Hungary for over 30 years. The above listed countries will not permit a church to operate without MEMBERSHIP in the National Council of Churches. So why did the SDA church join the WCC and its subsidiary National Councils of Churches and more localized Ministerial Associations? There are a number of reasons:
To receive financial assistance by way of cheaper radio and Television rates. Elder B. B. Beach told me this over the phone.
"We are never to confederate with men of the world in order to receive financial assistance." E.G. White, Testimonies, Vol. 9, p. 233.
To be able to operate above ground in countries where WCC membership is mandatory so as to get more members which means more money. The church could have gone underground as did the faithful SDA Reformers in Russia.
“His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.”
The general love of numbers and mammon (money). The more numbers (members), the more money:
Numbers -- "If you lower the standard in order to secure popularity and an increase of numbers, and then make this increase a cause of rejoicing (celebration), you show great blindness. If numbers were an evidence of success, Satan might claim the preeminence for, in this world, his followers are largely in the majority... It is the virtue, intelligence, and piety of the people composing our churches, not their numbers, that should be a source of joy and thankfulness. Counsels to Teachers, p. 94.
Ellen White says that Israel began its apostate journey downward by unlawful confederacies with God’s enemies.
Ellen White says when to separate—when to fear and shun:
Fear and Shun "'They that forsake the law praise the wicked.' Proverbs 28:4. When those who are uniting with the world, yet claiming great purity, plead for union with those who have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth, we should fear and shun them as decidedly as did Nehemiah. Such counsel is prompted by the enemy of all good. It is the speech of timeservers, and should be resisted as resolutely today as then. Whatever influence would tend to unsettle the faith of God' people in His guiding power, should be steadfastly withstood." E.G. White, Prophets and kings, p. 660.
The fallen churches have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth since they rejected the first and second angel’s messages.
The SDA church married itself to the world by adopting the World’s Accreditation Standards for education. By that act in 1930, the church married itself to the world.
The SDA church adopted the central doctrine of the Catholic Church, the Trinity doctrine, in the 1930’s. That doctrine totally denies the great sacrifice of the Son of God in laying aside (emptying Himself) of His pre-Incarnation Divine ONLY Nature life and soul, as a bequeathed gift to man for overcoming sin and regeneration back into the image of God. The trinity doctrine teaches no such sacrifice. It teaches that the third person Holy Spirit always existed as a separate person from eternity. Ellen White says that the Holy Spirit is the life and soul of Christ, and Scripture affirms that interpretation when it says in John 14 that another Comforter will come to you and then Christ says in verse 18, I will come to you. It is His pre-Incarnation Holy Ghost Spirit that comes to us. That one eternal Spirit is shared by Father, Son and Holy Ghost. That is what makes them ONE GOD.
Hbr 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
The eternal Spirit means ONE SPIRIT.
"The Power of God in the Third Person.--The prince of the power of evil can only be held in check by the power of God in the third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit.-- Special Testimonies, Series A, No. 10, p. 37. (1897).
Act 3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Thus, the Holy Spirit is not just a Comforter, as the Trinity Doctrine implies. The important point is that the Holy Spirit is far more than the Trinity Doctrine implies.
The Destruction of Jerusalem A.D. 70 was a PREFIGURE, p. 25, The Great Controversy.
All past destructions of Jerusalem Ezekiel, chapters 5 and 9, were PREFIGURES of the final destruction of spiritual Jerusalem, the professing SDA church militant.
A faithful remnant escapes, Ezekiel 5:1-3, and Isaiah 37:31, 32.
The ancient prophets wrote PRIMARILY for us:
"The Bible for Our Time.--Never are we absent from the mind of God. God is our joy and our salvation. Each of the ancient prophets spoke less for their own time than for ours, so that their prophesying is in force for us. 'Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come' (1 Cor. 10:11). 'Not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven which things the angels desire to look into' (1 Peter 1:12).'" E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 3, p. 338.
This (above) is why Isaiah 37:31, 32 applies regardless of its historic application.
Ezekiel 9 confirms this scenario. Ezekiel 9 is manifested because of the abominations listed in Ezekiel 8. There is a counterpart for all those abominations in the SDA church today.
The SDA Church is now holding sacred worship services on Sunday in places. The church will instruct its members to keep Sunday:
"The Lord has a controversy with his professed people in these last days. In this controversy men in responsible positions will take a course directly opposite to that pursued by Nehemiah. They will not only ignore and despise the Sabbath themselves, but they will try to keep it from others by burying it beneath the rubbish of custom and tradition. In churches and in large gatherings in the open air, ministers, will urge upon the people the necessity of keeping the first day of the week." E.G. White, Review and Herald, vol. 1, p. 405, col. 3.
The SDA church told parents in Russia to send their children to school on Sabbath.
Ezekiel 5 confirms the scenario this study presents.
The PREFIGURE TYPE of A.D. 70 confirms this scenario.
Ellen White said that the tares are burned in the field and that the church and the world are the field. The garner is Heb. 12:22, 23.
Tares are burned in the field. COL, 70.
"The 'field,' Christ said, 'is the world.' But we must understand this as signifying the church of Christ in the world. The parable is a description of that which pertains to the kingdom of God, His work of salvation of men and this work is accomplished through the church. True, the Holy Spirit has gone out into all the world everywhere it is moving upon the hearts of men but it is in the church that we are to grow and ripen for the garner of God." Christ's Object Lessons. 70.
If thorns (open apostate sinners) are permitted to grow, especially in leadership positions, then the wheat cannot ripen (mature) for the garner of God. Separation then becomes absolutely necessary.
Christ is our example in separating from apostate bodies:
"Christ was a protestant...The Reformers date back to Christ and the apostles. They came out and separated themselves from a religion of forms and ceremonies. Luther and his followers did not invent the reformed religion. They simply accepted it as presented by Christ and the apostles." E.G. White, Review and Herald, vol. 2, 48, col. 2.
Christ’s followers, the true Jerusalem church, were not sealed (Ezekiel 9 sealing) in the apostate Jewish church. They were sealed in True Jerusalem. Both churches has headquarters in Jerusalem. The disciples were hiding in the upper room when they received the sealing of the Holy Spirit. They were hiding from the apostate Jews.
"The Sanhedrin had rejected Christ's message and was bent upon His death therefore Jesus departed from Jerusalem, from the priests, the temple, the religious leaders, the people who had been instructed in the law, and turned to another class to proclaim His message, and to gather out those who should carry the gospel to all nations. As the light and life of men was rejected by the ecclesiastical authorities in the days of Christ, so it has been rejected in every succeeding generation. Again and again the history of Christ's withdrawal from Judea has been repeated. When the Reformers preached the word of God, they had no thought of separating themselves from the established church but the religious leaders would not tolerate the light, and those that bore it were forced to seek another class, who were longing for the truth. In our day few of the professed followers of the Reformers are actuated by their spirit. Few are listening for the voice of God, and ready to accept truth in whatever guise it may be presented. Often those who follow in the steps of the Reformers are forced to turn away from the churches they love, in order to declare the plain teaching of the word of God. And many times those who are seeking for light are by the same teaching obliged to leave the church of their fathers, that they may render obedience." E.G. White, Desire of Ages, 232.
The outcome of the professing SDA church militant is prophesied in Ezekiel, Chapters 1-9.
Ellen White prophesied the Omega of Apostasy “among” SDA’s:
"One thing it is certain is soon to be realized, the great apostasy, which is developing and increasing and waxing stronger, and will continue to do so until the Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout. We are to hold fast the first principles of our denominated faith, and go forward from strength to increased faith. Ever we are to keep the faith that has been substantiated by the Holy Spirit of God from the earlier events of our experience until the present time. We need now larger breadth, and deeper, more earnest, unwavering faith in the leadings of the Holy Spirit. If we needed the manifest proof of the Holy Spirit's power to confirm truth in the beginning, after the passing of the time, we need to-day all the evidence in the confirmation of the truth, when souls are departing from the faith and giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. There must not be any languishing of soul now." (E.G. White, Special Testimonies, Series B, No. 7, p. 57).
We were never to join ANY New Movement. Satan knew that, so he came in and formed one “AMONG” SDA’s, and they are non the wiser:
"The enemy of souls has sought to bring in the supposition that a great reformation was to take place among Seventh-day Adventists, and that this reformation would consist in giving up the doctrines which stand as the pillars of our faith, and engaging in a process of reorganization. Were this reformation to take place, what would result? The principles of truth that God in His wisdom has given to the remnant church, would be discarded. Our religion would be changed. The fundamental principles that have sustained the work for the last fifty years would be accounted as error. A NEW ORGANIZATION would be established. Books of a NEW ORDER would be written. A system of intellectual philosophy would be introduced. The founders of this system would go into the cities, and do a wonderful work. The Sabbath of course, would be lightly regarded, as also the God who created it. Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way of the NEW MOVEMENT. The leaders would teach that virtue is better than vice, but GOD BEING REMOVED, they would place their dependence on human power, which, without God, is worthless. Their foundation would be built on the sand, and storm and tempest would sweep away the structure. Who has authority to begin such a [NEW] movement? We have our Bibles, we have our experience, attested to by the miraculous working of the Holy Spirit. We have a truth that admits of no compromise. Shall we not repudiate everything that is not in harmony with this truth? E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, 204, 205.
The outcome of the professing SDA church militant is prophesied by Ellen White as follows:
"Jesus sends HIS PEOPLE a message of warning to prepare them for his coming. To the prophet John was made known the closing work in the great plan of man's redemption. He beheld an angel flying 'in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgment is come and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters [Rev. 14:6, 7.]. The angel represented in prophecy as delivering this message, symbolizes a class of faithful men, who, obedient to the promptings of God's Spirit and the teachings of his word, proclaim this warning to the inhabitants of earth. This message was not to be committed to the religious leaders of the people. They had failed to preserve their connection with God, and had REFUSED THE LIGHT FROM HEAVEN therefore they WERE NOT of the number described by the apostle Paul: 'But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness' [1 Thess. 5:4, 5]. The watchmen upon the walls of Zion should be the first to catch the tidings of the Saviour's advent, the first to lift their voices to proclaim him near, the first to warn the people to prepare for his coming. But they were at ease, dreaming of peace and safety, while the people were asleep in their sins. Jesus saw HIS CHURCH, like the barren fig-tree, covered with pretentious leaves, yet destitute of precious fruit. There was a boastful observance of the forms of religion, while the spirit of true humility, penitence and faith--which alone could render the service acceptable to God--was lacking. Instead of the graces of the Spirit, there were manifested pride, formalism, vainglory, selfishness, oppression. A BACKSLIDING CHURCH closed their eyes to the signs of the times. God did nor forsake them, or suffer his faithfulness to fail but they departed from him, and SEPARATED THEMSELVES from his love. As they REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THE CONDITIONS, his promises were NOT FULFILLED to them." E.G. White, The Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 4, pp. 199-200 [The 1884 edition of The Great Controversy, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH TESTIMONIES, VOL 4].
SDA Corporate Church Brought Down to Hell! Is Such a Church THE CHURCH That the Gates of Hell Will not Prevail Against? The following statement is presented just as it appears in its reference. All bracketed portions are just as Ellen White inserted them:
"And thou, Capernaum [Seventh-day Adventists, who have had great light], which art exalted unto heaven [in point of privilege], shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, than for thee." E.G. White, Review and Herald Articles, vol. 3, p. 69, col. 3.
Such pronouncements have the ring of a true prophet! Capernaum was a corporate city, and the SDA is Biblically represented as a corporate city, the corporate city of Jerusalem. It will be brought down to hell as a corporate city [church], except for a small remnant who escape, Ezekiel 5:1-5, as was the case with Israel in the 70 A.D. destruction of Jerusalem.
"They that forsake the law praise the wicked.' Proverbs 28:4. When those who are uniting with the world, yet claiming great purity, plead for union with those who have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth, we should fear and shun them as decidedly as did Nehemiah. Such counsel is prompted by the enemy of all good. It is the speech of timeservers, and should be resisted as resolutely today as them. Whatever influence would tend to unsettle the faith of God's people in His guiding power, should be steadfastly withstood." E.G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 661.
"Those who are uniting with the world [and churches that cannot be distinguished from the world, Early Writings, 273] are receiving the worldly mold and preparing for the mark of the beast." Testimonies, vol. 5, 216."
"I then saw the THIRD ANGEL. Said my accompanying angel, 'Fearful is his work. Awful is his mission. He is the angel that is to select the wheat from the tares, and seal, or bind, the wheat for the heavenly garner." E.G. White, Early Writings, 118.
"The angel represented in prophecy as delivering this message, symbolizes a class of faithful men, who obedient to the promptings of God's Spirit and the teachings of his word, proclaim this warning to the inhabitants of earth. This message WAS NOT to be committed to the religious leaders of the people." E.. White, The Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 4, 199, 200.
"The third angel's message will not be comprehended, the light which will lighten the earth with its glory will be called a false light, by those who refuse to walk in its advancing glory." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 5-27-1890, p. 321.
In Isaiah 4:1-4, at the end-time all formally organized churches symbolized by seven women, are doing their own thing contrary to God’s commands and purposes. Zion is the true Jerusalem church. She gets the name New Jerusalem, Revelation 3:10-12 and Isaiah 62. She is married. She is the bride of Christ. Zion is the bride and her daughters are guests at the wedding, The Great Controversy, p. 426-7.
"The marriage represents the reception by Christ of His kingdom. The Holy City, the New Jerusalem, which is the capital and representative of the kingdom, is called 'the bride, the Lamb's wife.' Said the angel to John: 'Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.' 'He carried me away in the spirit,' says the prophet, 'and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.' Revelation 21:9, 10. Clearly, then, the bride represents the Holy City, and the virgins that go out to meet the bridegroom are a symbol of the church [militant]. In the Revelation the people of God are said to be the guests at the marriage supper. Revelation 19:9. If guests, they cannot be represented also as the bride...He will receive the New Jerusalem, the capital of His kingdom, 'prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.'" E. G. White, The Great Controversy, 426, 427.
Ezekiel 22:17-31, is the fate of all Laodicean church militant denominations. Judgment begins at the house of God, and then the world.

God bless,

Ron Beaulieu