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Question 1

What are the three purposes of the seven letters to the seven churches? iAi

Answer 1

1) the interpretation - the seven letters were written to seven actual local churches in the first century, and these messages should not be spiritualized away
2) the application - in the same manner that the other New Testament church epistles were written to specific local churches and yet still have a universal message for churches and believers today these seven letters also have a message for Christians throughout the entire church age
3) the illustration - The seven churches and the letters to them also seem to have a prophetic purpose and outlining the history of the church age from John time until the removal of the church at the rapture and the onset of the tribulation

Question 2

Revelation ___:____ promises that church age believers will be kept from the hour of temptation, which is to come on the whole world and is used as an evidence of a pre-trib rapture

Answer 2

Revelation 3:10 - I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth

Question 3

The Tribulation spans Revelation chapters ____ thru____

Answer 3

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