a speculation 

A Radical View That Is Consistent With History 

A reasonable explanation.  An unsettled mystery.  Who, When, What, and Why?  Especially the Why but the Who might explain all the others.  John the Baptist preparing the way for the Way, the Truth, and the Light.  The first coming.  The Lamb of God.  The time was near for this prophecy.  

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a church history 

A Failure To Mention The Seven Churches 

A fourth century historian, Eusebius, mentions six of the seven churches but fails to associate them with the Apocalypse.  Early copies of the Apocalypse no longer exist but if they did they might not contain seven churches.  John the Baptist knew the “lamb” but not the churches. 

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