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Originally Posted by Apostolic1ness
Was John writing to an angel or a person?
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Definitely angels. It is possible that the angels were people? In chapter one it says he was writing to the seven churches of Asia. In chapter two he gets more specific and begins writing to angels of individual churches.
It is worth mentioning that the first verse of Revelation refers to an angel, and I’m pretty comfortable saying it is not talking about a human being.
If he starts writing to angels that are human messengers on chapter two, he certainly does not make it obvious that he did so.
Revelation begins with an angel that is not human. (IMO) It mentions seven Spirits that are not human (hence the capital s). Then, in chapter two mentions seven more angels. There is no distinction made between the first verse in Revelation and the angels in chapter two. I think it’s a HUGE stretch to think that chapter two switches to human angels without any warning that we are leaving a Spiritual realm and entering the physical.
Another thought, why wasn’t John referred to as an angel. If the qualifier for angel was simply a messenger, I think we all could agree that he qualified.
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