Church of Ephesus, and there are others which are cold and dead like Laodicea. We know of churches which like Thyatira are full of ritualism and ceremonialism and differ little from paganism, while others like Sardis are mere dead formalism. All these applications can be made to these seven churches, but we are reminded in chapter 1 that Revelation is a prophetic book, and so we look for a prophetic meaning in the description of these seven assemblies in Asia. Now that the present age is almost run