THE SEVEN (Chapters 2-3) These are the only documents of Christ. They were directed to churches facing a crisis, in the period of that crisis, which fact, together with the contents of the letters, show the period of history to which the Book Of Revelation belongs. The assignment of events to the wrong period of history is anachronistic; and the theory that switches the events of Revelation to the future is the greatest anachronism of all time. The messages of Christ to the seven churches contain unmistakable indications that Revelation is the symbolic history of the struggle and triumph of the early church in conflict with the Jewish and pagan persecuting powers, written in signs and symbols which were fulfilled in the experiences of the churches of that era.