Notice the periods in church history which
these messages to the Seven Churches show:

Ephesus: Apostolic age 96 A.D.
Smyrna: Church of the Persecution 2 century
Pergamos: Church of Imperial Fave 313 A.D.
Thyatira: Church of the Papacy 450 A.D.
Sardis: Church of the Reformation 1517 A.D.
Philadelphia: Church of the Latter-Day out-
pouring. End of the Age
Laodicea: Lukewarm Church End of the Age