The book of
Revelation in the New Testament is a record of end time events leading up to
the return of Jesus Christ.
This is a record of
a vision that Apostle John received while he was in the lonely island of
Patmos.
There, Jesus Christ
appeared to John and instructed him to: "Write on a scroll what you see
and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and
to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and
to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
These seven
churches were seven local congregations of early Christians living in each
city.
The seven Churches
are named for their locations.
All of them are
located in the Asia Minor, present-day Turkey.
The order of these
cities corresponds to the route along which a courier from Patmos would have
carried the scroll.