The Answer To Robotic Literalism
Is Rational Literalism
The Book of Revelation is important to this discussion because it is the book where you find the seven churches of Asia Minor addressed by the glorified Christ. He has something to say to each of these churches and His message to each is recorded in the first three chapters.
Revelation, by the way, is either an interpreters delight or nightmare depending on how the book is approached. It is filled with graphic text describing things we do not and cannot naturally understand.
It doesn’t provide an appendix, index or endnotes to help with unfamiliar words or phrases. The language of the book defies colloquial and academic language in our day and that is true even in the time it was written which was almost two thousand years ago.
The writer was not contributing to an ongoing discussion on popular issues. The message of this book was not something anyone saw coming.
Some of the unusal events and descriptions are found in earlier books but with no more explanation than John’s discourse. John simply puts them together chronologically in one place.
But even with previous mentions of some of these ideas, he’s telling us what we do not readily understand and describing things we’ve never experienced or seen before.
And that is where the seven churches of Asia Minor are mentioned. [Read more…] about The Main Point Of The Seven Churches Of Asia Minor