Chapter Five/John Behold the Glorified Jesus - In the Lord's Day - Continue

 In this first vision, before John sees anything, he hears something: "And I heard behind me a strong voice like that of a trumpet, saying: 'What you see write in a scroll and send it to the seven congregations, in Ephesus and in Smyrna and in Pergamum and Thyatira and in Sardis and Philadelphia and in Laodicea.' " (Revelation 1:10b, 11) Authoritative and commanding as a trumpet call, a voice calls on John to write to "the seven congregations." He is to receive a series of messages and to publish the things he will see and hear.  Notice that the congregations mentioned here actually existed in John's day. All of them were situated in Asia Minor, right across the sea from Patmos. They were accessible to one another by means of the excellent Roman roads that existed in the area. A messenger would have had no trouble carrying the scroll from one congregation to the next. These seven congregations would resemble a section of modern-day circuit of Jehovah's Witnesses.

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