>>17434223
>Which do you think he meant?
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Who cares about a protie's opinion?

>>17434230
I’m Catholic yet I find Protestant lore intriguing.

>>17434223
No. The only interpretation that makes sense is they represent 7 historical eras of the church

>>17434223
They're 7 churches that literally existed in John's time. They're not part of the future prophecy.

>>17434223
Ephesus: Westboro Baptist Church (cannot bear evil but lost first love: Fred Phelps)
Smyrna: New IFB (consists of impoverished Mexicans; suffers state harassment)
Pergamon: Roman Catholic Church (seat of Satan)
Thyaitra: Seventh-day Adventist Church (follows a false prophetess)
Sardis: Southern Baptist Convention (dead institution)
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Church of God (isn't it obvious?)
Laodicea: Christian Reformed Church in North America (lukewarm)

>>17434223
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Socrates, Chilon, Pittacus, Periander, Cleobulus, Bias, Thales, and Solon.
Revelation is a compilation of drug trips pertaining to interpretations of academia and its hypothesized direction as it would interact with Church and it's non-physical proto-psychological institution.
They simply did not have a proper term for Psychology as an academic field separate from mythology or medicine,- so revelation is some tripped out priest trying to methodically stumble upon a solution by drawing inspiration from the 7 Sages and how different viewpoints and expertize fields does not have to be in clash with eachother as truths in of themselves, but in dialogue and attributed truthness each to their own.
Aesop is also sometimes referred to as a unifying "mascot" of the 7, representing the truth of the word itself as sort of a "narrator". This is why revelation 1 starts out by laying forth Jesus as an "Aesop"/Son of Man of the 7 churches, because he was a commonly known stand-in for the concept of "narrator" of truth.
tldr;
What the 7 churches is really about is the focus on that men are split in belief even despite no disagreement, but that truth itself is one and that Jesus was the Aesop of his time.