Seven Churches was Possessed's debut album, released in 1985 through Combat. It is widely regarded as the first death metal album. Classic Possessed Line-up, clockwise from top: Mike Sus, Larry LaLonde, Jeff Becerra, and Mike Torrao Possessed were a heavy metal band formed in 1982, in El Sobrante, California (Slightly North of San Francisco), and have often been credited for creating and paving the way for death metal. ... Jump to: navigation, search Death metal is a type of heavy metal music with thrash metal influences that emerged in the United States (especially Florida and California), Europe (especially the United Kingdom and Sweden) and Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...
In Revelation 1:13 we see Christ in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, that is the sevenchurches, and in the letters we find out what he observed as he walks among the sevenchurches.
The sevenchurches represent the different imperfections that are likely to be found in individual churches in different localities and at different times.
A messenger carrying letters to the SevenChurches from the Apostle John on the island of Patmos, which is about 30 miles off the coast of Turkey and opposite the nearest port of the ancient city of Miletus, would land at Miletus and proceed northward about 25 miles to Ephesus.
The sevenchurches were composed of Jews who believed in Jesus Christ, and they received doctrine for the nation of Israel from an apostle to Israel about the kingdom prophesied in the Old Testament.
The sevenchurches of Asia were a subset of the assemblies to which Hebrews, and First and Second Peter were written.
The seven stars are the angels of the sevenchurches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the sevenchurches.
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