Smyrna

What are the lessons we can glean from the 7 churches Jesus writes to.

The messages to the seven churches are said to have a fourfold application:

1.) Local, to the churches actually addressed;

Easy around 95 AD

2.) admonitory, to all churches in all time as tests by which they may discern their true spiritual state in the sight of God;

Revelation 2:11

11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

3.) personal, in the exhortations to him “that hath an ear,” and in the promises “to him that overcometh,”