The Book of Revelation was written about 95 A.D. by the apostle John. John wrote the book, under the direct inspiration of Jesus Christ, on the island of Patmos. John had been banished to the island during the reign of Roman Emperor Domitian (81 to 96 A.D.). Revelation is the only prophetic-based book in the New Testament. The seven churches of Revelation were actual Christian churches that existed in the first century A.D. God commanded the apostle John to write what he saw and send it to certain churches in Asia: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, saying, 'I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,' and, 'What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'" (Revelation 1:10-11, NKJV)
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