Church that kept God’s word

John opens the Book of Revelation by writing letters to seven Christian assemblies located in western Asia Minor (today’s Turkey), Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Each of these towns had unique personalities that I describe in my book “John’s Apocalypse: A Jewish Idea.” In this series of blogs, I seek to give a brief history of each…