What the Bible says about Gold Refined in the Fire
Revelation 3:18 Gold, clothing, and eye salve represent the three major industries of Laodicea: banking, textiles, and medicines. Gold, spiritual riches (I Peter 1:7), contrasts with the word "poor," and fire symbolizes advises them to obtain spiritual riches produced through trials, which the selfsufficient Laodicean avoids by compromising.