Seven-Churches

{SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA}

1.  Taking Revelation's Target Audience Seriously - (Revelation is addressed to seven real churches that resided in the Roman province of Asia) - {PDF Copy}
2. First Vision - Revelation 1:8-20 - (John's vision of Jesus walking among seven golden lampstands) - {PDF Copy}
3. Introduction to the Seven Churches - (An overview of the letters to the Seven Churches of Asia) - {PDF Copy}
4. The Churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, and Pergamos - (Revelation 2:1-2:17) - {PDF Copy}
5. The Churches of Thyatira and Sardis - (Revelation 2:18-3:6) - {PDF Copy}
6. The Churches of Philadelphia and Laodicea - (Revelation 3:7-22) - {PDF Copy}
7. First Vision - Seven Lampstands - (PDF Download; a detailed study about the first vision of Jesus and the Seven Churches of Asia - Revelation 1:8 - 3:22) - {PDF Copy}
8. The Nicolaitans - (A teaching in several of the churches of Asia that promoted compromise with idolatry and emperor worship) - {PDF Copy}

{ONLINE COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN CHURHCES}

1. The Epistles to the Seven Churches, (By Richard Trench. PDF - Read online or download [public domain]).
2. Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia, (By William Ramsay. Read online or download PDF [Christian Classics Ethereal Library - ccel.org]).

Area around Patmos and western Asia