Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ…

Revelation 1:3 Blessed is the one who reads, and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear the words of the prophesy and keep the things, which are written in it; for the time is near.

Pattern in the letters to the 7 churches:
1. A command to write to the angel.

Pattern in the letters to the 7 churches:
1.Command to write to the angel.
2.Self-description of the Son of Man that is related to the vision of chapter 1

Revelation 2:1 ’To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this:’

Revelation 1:13,16, 20 and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man…In His right hand He held seven stars…the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Pattern in the letters to the 7 churches:
1.Command to write to the angel.
2.Self-description of the Son of Man that is related to the vision of chapter 1
3.Commendation usually follows.

Pattern in the letters to the 7 churches:
1.Command to write to the angel.
2.Self-description of the Son of Man that is related to the vision of chapter 1
3.Commendation usually follows.
4.Accusation usually follows.

Matthew 24:12 “…most people’s love will become cold.”

Revelation 2:4 ”But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”

Revelation 2:6 ’But you have this, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.’

Pattern in the letters to the 7 churches:
1.Command to write to the angel.
2.Self-description of the Son of Man that is related to the vision of chapter 1
3.Commendation usually follows.
4.Accusation usually follows.
5.Promise to those who overcome, with a call to hear what the Spirit says.