Tabletalk Magazine, May 2009: The 7 Letters of Revelation (Biblia.com)

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In the book of Revelation are written messages to seven of the most prominent churches of the Roman province of Asia, which are located in what is now western Turkey. In them, by praise and censure, warning and exhortation, the risen Christ makes plain much of His will for His people. At the time, the onslaught on the church was physical through a persecuting empire, intellectual through false...

[their] works complete in the sight of my God” (Rev. 3:2). Ironic and counterintuitive as it may seem on the surface, the church is often strongest when it is facing some specific challenge (whether doctrinal or moral), and the flip side is also true, that the church is in gravest danger when the waters are calmest and when the sailing seems the most smooth. If the Christians in Sardis were facing a specific doctrinal threat like the Ephesians were, then most likely they would have “tested those

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