Because we go through these

seasons.

So, you know, a lot of scholars have tried to determine, are these seven letters describing seven kind of segments or seasons of church history throughout life? And there's so much different and diverse debate on that, that I find that kind of question causes less unity and more confusion.

And so I think you're spot on when we look at, okay, what did these things mean to these seven? Yep.

And then as the Spirit said this through John then, and we're reading it 2,000 years later, can we learn something from the churches? And I think most of us see ourselves like if we looked at the church at Smyrna or the church at Philadelphia, and we're like, well, in many of these letters, there's a pattern of there's a comforting word, and then there's often, in most cases, a rebuke or a confronting word.

You're doing these things well, but I have this against you, or this is something that you've let slip.

And again...

And that's what's