Once a very important road in Asia Minor ran north along the Aegean coast from Ephesus into Smyrna and then to Pergamum. Another road that began at Pergamum ran southeast to Thyatira, farther ...

Some Christians, particularly in the Protestant world, think that these seven messages contain a map of Church history ... the seven messages (to Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia ...