Jesus spoke to John

"Write the things that

thou hast seen, and

the things which are,

and the things which

shall be hereafter."

He is telling John to

write down:

the things he had seen;

the things which are, (at that time 96 A.D.)

the things which shall be hereafter (future)

So we see that the vision of the Seven

Churches concerns the things that was at

that time and the things in the future.