The letters to the seven congregations in Revelation 2-3 are about the future, in the same way that Daniel 12:2 is about a future resurrection and Ezekiel 40-48 is about a future Temple and a future city of Jerusalem. Starting in Revelation 1:10, John has a detailed vision of the future, and his writing about that vision is what the rest of the Book of Revelation is about. The Day of the Lord was future in John’s lifetime and it is still future today. In other words, The Lord gave John a vision in which he was transported into the future, to the Day of the Lord. Revelation 1:10 says that John was “in the spirit on the Lord’s day,” which is usually referred to as “the Day of Yahweh” in the Old Testament. The scene changes from John’s lifetime to the distant future in Revelation 1:10-11. 1:11).īecause John penned the book of Revelation and sent it to those seven churches, many commentators have falsely assumed that the letters to those churches, which are in Revelation Chapters 2 and 3, are written to Christians. These seven congregations were Christian Churches that existed at the time John wrote and were in the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea (cp. “to the seven congregations that are in the province of Asia.” When John penned the book of Revelation, he sent it to the “seven congregations (or “churches”) in the Roman province of Asia, which today is in western Turkey.
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