Life Study of Revelation Misses Mark RE: "First Love"

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Originally Posted by JJ

It seems contrary and conflicting to me for Lee to both say the seven churches are symbolic of the stages of church history we have been discussing and also in his 1976 Life Study commentary on Revelation 1:11 https://biblehub.com/revelation/1-11.htm also say “only those who are in the local churches are rightly positioned with the right angle and the proper perspective to see the visions in this book” . . .

Never thought of it that way, but it does make Lee seem really foolish (or it makes God/John really foolish). And for me, I will go with the former, not the latter.

If only "Philadelphia" has the eyes and ears to see and hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches, then why write to the others? Why bother wasting the ink? Philadelphia (according to Lee) is too smart to fall into the errors that are written about in the other letters, thereby making 6 of the letters a waste of time, ink, and brainpower to read (unless you are needing something more thump your chest about).