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These letters were written to communities of believers in seven different cities in what is now Western Turkey towards the end of the first century AD. Taken together they give us a prophetic overview of the life of the Church down through the centuries from the apostolic period until the time when Jesus will return for his bride. So my intention in these chapters has been to convey the timeless burden of Christ's heart to his bride as it is revealed in each letter. Each believing community has different struggles and different issues which it needs to face, work through and resolve, and it succeeds and fails in different ways to other churches. But all church communities exist on the forefront of the never-ending spiritual battle which rages between the kingdom of God and the dominion of darkness in this world, and therefore have to deal with the varying attacks, temptations and deceptions which come their way from time to time in this ongoing battle.