John’s Messages to the Seven Churches of Revelation
In the Book of Revelation, John forewarns of the looming destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD. And he punctuates this warning with the following emphatic exhortation to the genuine people of God, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues” (Rev 18:4). But we are mistaken if we assume this exhortation was directed only to Christian residents in Jerusalem itself, upon which city this…