They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

“For ¹  no good tree bears bad ²  fruit, nor again ³  does a bad tree bear good fruit,

So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going ¹  to vomit ²  you out of my mouth!

So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you ¹  made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,

When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. ¹  The man ²  said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw ³  a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.” ⁴