7 Letters to 7 Churches: Triumphs, Failures, and Warnings

In the first century A.D., the Apostle John was exiled to the island of Patmos, a Roman penal colony near Asia Minor. John’s “crime” was practicing Christianity. While in Patmos, John was seized by the Holy Spirit and received prophetic visions from Christ instructing him to… “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches.”