SEVEN CHURCHES OF REVELATION
The series of the seven churches of Revelation, considering the following which was spoken to John: “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches” (Revelation 1:11).
Seven Churches List:
Ephesus
Smyrna
Pergamos
Thyatira
Sar­dis
Philadelphia
Laodicea
And then the angel names the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sar­dis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. These were all names of cities in the Roman province of Asia, a part of what we now call Asia Minor, territory belonging at the present time to the country of Turkey. This was the field of labor of the apostle Paul and others who followed immediately after the apostles.
These seven churches and the messages addressed to them and the blessings pro­nounced upon them apply to seven periods, or states, of the church reaching from the first advent of Jesus to His second coming. So you see that we really have a seven-fold prophecy of seven successive periods and conditions of t