There are " things which you have seen
", " things which are
", and " things which will take place
".
The seven churches of the book of Revelation, which actually existed in the 1st century (" things which you have seen
"), also represent seven broad types of churches that can exist at any time in history (" things which are
"), and seven generally overlapping periods of church history (" things which will take place
"). These letters to the seven churches of Asia can be applied in four main ways:
They existed literally and historically at the end of the 1st century AD.
They are seven types of churches which exist at an
