Island of Patmos

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Island of Patmos
Some Interesting Facts from Revelation

• Small island (10 by6) in the Aegean Sea, 55 miles
  SW of Ephesus

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Why these 7 Churches?

• More than 7 Churches in Asia
• Collosae Col 112
• Hierapolis Col 412
• Troas Acts 205
• Miletus Acts 2017

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7 is a symbolic number

• So 7 must refer to the whole church
• Each church has a message for the whole church at
  different periods of time.
• They also have a message for us today as THE
  CHURCH in the last days.

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Introduction to these 7 Churches are found in
114-18

• Ephesus 21 120
• Smyrna 28 117,18
• Pergamum 212 116
• Thyatira 218 114,15
• Sardis 31 14,16
• Philadelphia 37 118
• Laodicea 314 15