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Originally Posted by Igzy
But, stepping back, what is the point or benefit of identifying whole swaths of Christian history and people with the seven churches in the first place? There doesn't seem to be any point to it at all, other than discrediting and marginalizing every group but one's own.
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And there, in a nutshell, is the only reason to review history in that manner.
Besides, can you imagine the thinking over the centuries if Lee was right and everyone before him understood the apparent prophecies? Sometime in about 200AD they would begin to say "Wow! We're in the age of Smyrna!" then quite some generations later, someone would declare "Woe to us who now live in the age of Thyatira!"
It doesn't take a degree in theology to see the problems with that interpretation.