7 churches part 3

Forenote: I dont/cant believe there can be any God anymore because if there was a God he would not allow such totally mean and cruel hell on earth wrongs to be constantly done to me for so long and allow the culprits to be getting away with it for so long (though these criminals and cowards won't get away with it forever, even if there is no God, there is not doubt from world history and other evidences that they will one day be overthrown and strung up like the evil filth coward criminals they are, even if they still succeed for some decades/centuries yet). But i still post historical and other discoveries even if they relate to the bible. (Don't think that just because i manage to post some connections means everything is fine and dandy. Things have been hell on earth for me here the last 4 years.)

Continuing our found proposed matches of the 7 churches.

1 Ephesus - Jerusalem
2 Smyrna - Alexandria
3 Pergamum - Rome
4 Thyatira - Constantintople
5 Sardis - Madrid
6 Philadelphia - Philadelphia in USA
7 Laodicea - London.

6. Philadelphia.

The 6th church Philadelphia seems to match the church of the puritans and pilgrim fathers (and pioneers/colonials?) with its centre at Philadelphia in the USA, as seen by that the details of Philadelphia are similar to those of the American puritans?

Philadelphia means "brotherly love".
The name is the same as the Philadelphia in the modern USA.

Details of Philadelphia (Asia Minor) in history and geography etc:
- in great Roman road-system (see footnote for comparisons),
- "descendants of Macedonians",
- ancestral bravery & self-reliance (compare Puritans, Pilgrims, Amish, wild west, cowboys),
- large Jewish population (compare New York, Hollywood),
- founded by Attalus II (compare Atlas/Atlantis/Atlantic).
- Philadelphus king of Pergamum (matching Rome in Revelation),
- city of Lydia (compare 5th church Sardis) (compare name London?)
- subject to earthquakes (compare LA?)
- Philadelphia was also the name of a city of the Decapolis in Transjordan, earlier named Rabbah and later named Amman.
- Septuagint of Ptolemy Philadelphus? (compare bible/KJV/AV? ASV? NWT? JST?)

Details of Philadelphia/letter in Revelation/Apocalypse 3:
- "he who opens and no one can shut", "I have set before you an open door"
- synagogue of Satan of "those who say they are Jews but are not" (which was also in Smyrna) (might match the freemasons? or catholics? or bad Jews? or BIs? or Mormons? JWs?)
- kept from the hour of testing or great tribulation.
- "which is to come on the whole world/earth".
- "i will make him a pillar in my temple" (compare American buildings masonry)
- "write on him the name of my god" (compare brands? 666?)
- "the city of my God the new Jerusalem" (compare Pilgrims Progress? New York?)

7. Laodicea.

Laodicea the 7th church of Revelation 2-3 seems to match the Victorian and/or modern Western church(es) with the centre at London, as seen by that the details of Laodicea are startlingly/amazingly similar to details of Victorian London and Britain and British Empire.

Laodicea means laos "(common) people/lay/laity", leithos" town hall", & leon "lion" closely related, + dike "justice/rule", dikaios "righteous", "civil servant, public serving" (compare British parliament, house of commons, democracy, US republicanism, British civil service, British law, British lion, city of lions/lyonesse).

The name Laodicea is similar to London or Claudia or Boadicea.

Details of Laodicea from history, geography, etc:
- founded by queen Laodice wife of Antiochus/Seleucus II (compare Boadicea? Claudia/Genuissa/Gwenwisa daughter of Caesar/Claudius/Caractacus? Queen Victoria, who said the empire was due to the bible? Britannia?)
- city of Phrygia (compare Phrygians with Britons/Celts),
- important city, metropolis (London was the largest city of the world at the start of the last century).
- on river Lycus (compare London on the Thames),
- seat of an early christian church (compare British christian traditions of Claudia/Pudens, Joseph of Arimathea, St Alban, Arthur).
- isolated in community,
- was a manufacturing & commercial centre (compare Tubal & Meshech in prophecy) (compare British industrial revolution, free trade, Manchester school economics, Keynesian, Marx)
- contributed to advancement of science & literature,
- had a large jewish population,
- their letter to Caius Rubilius in favour of Jews (Josephus)?
- Laodice daughter of Priam of Troy & Hecuba (compare Brutus the Trojan),
- martydom of Lulianos & Paphos (compare martyrs Julius & Aaron),
- St Artemon (compare St Alban? St Aaron? Arthur?)
- celebrity of place attributed to fertility of soil,
- near Colossae,
- passed to kingdom of Pergamon (= Rome in Revelation 2),
- centre in Roman road-system (compare Britain is a famous historical Roman province),
- water heavily charged with calcerous matter (London has hard water in contrast to soft water in the North, and British use lime in the water. Also compare fluoridation.)
- embellished beautiful monuments,
- baths,
- theatre(s) (compare Shakespeare, etc),
- restored from own means,
- "For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my (Paul's) face in the flesh" (Colossians 2:1).
- Laodicea & Hierapolis (Colossians 4:13) (compare Britain & Ireland?)
- "letter from Laodicea" (Colossians 4:16)
- apocryphal epistle to the Laodiceans from Paul.
- also name of a queen of the Gileadites/Galadens.
- on river Lycus (also name of Apollo as healer), a centre of Asclepius (god of medicine/healing) worship, great medical school, "eyesalve" (compare RCP, fluoridation, medication, Dr Watson).

Details of Laodicea/letter in Revelation/Apocalypse:
- 7th/last church matches 7th/last day or sabbath/saturday (= Seventh Day Adventists? Latter Day Saints?)
- only one of the 7 churches with a plural name "Laodiceans" in some versions? (= many churches/denominations/sects? colonies/nations/tongues?)
- "Faithful & True Witness" (compare Jehovah's Witnesses?)
- "the head of God's creation" (compare Evolution vs Creation?)
- lukewarm
- rich/riches.
- wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked (compare Victorian London of JTR's times, Booth's letter, Scrooge, workhouses, "beggars are lay"?)
- "buy from me gold" (compare gold standard?)
- "white garments" (compare poor hygene/cleanliness then, compare cotton? compare pope of modern times?)
- "as many as i love i reprove and chasen (compare discipline)
- Jesus on outside,
- sup/dine (compare British dinner/tea/supper).
- "sit down with me on my throne" (compare British king/queen).

That is the 7 churches done in 3 blog posts. We also have some more further details matches to add to a few like Sardis sometime. Only reaming thing to mention is that I see my 3 posts on the 7 churches are not as great and easy to understand unfortunately, but they are not so difficult that some people should not be able to understand without too much effort hopefully.