The second question can be answered briefly. To whom was the book written? First, it was clearly written to the seven churches of Asia—Ephesus, Smyrna, and the others in modern day Turkey (Rev. 1:11), which the Islamic people violently conquered many centuries ago. Before that time, it was a Christian area. Although there were many more than seven churches in the world, those seven churches with all their particularity, represented all the people of God, all the