Summary the Book of Revelation Was Written Toward the Very End of the First Century. Each of the Assemblies Addressed Actually Existed at the Time They Were Addressed. the Moral and Spiritual Conditions As Described in Their Respective Epistles Actually Existed Too. Furthermore, Although We Are Living so Long After They Existed, We Too Are to Hear What the Spirit Says to Them. Often, the Individual Christian's Moral and Spiritual State Follows the Same General Pattern of Decline That Theirs Did. Finally, the Moral and Spiritual Decline Traced in These Assemblies Also Describes the History of the Assembly Itself Down Through the Intervening 20 Centuries