Signs of the Times: The Matrix of Meanings in Revelation 2-3

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Seven Churches: Neither Symbolic Nor Universal. 2. Contexts: Historical and Literary. 3. Ephesus: The Tree of Life. 4. Smyrna: The Crown of Life. 5. Pergamum: The Throne of Satan. 6. Thyatira: Feet of Burnished Bronze. 7. Sardis: Alive But Dead. 8. Philadelphia: Pillar in the Temple of God. 9. Laodicea: Neither Hot Nor Cold. 10. Conclusion. Bibliography.

Signs of the Times: The Matrix of Meanings in Revelation 2 – 3 is an exegetical study of the local references in chapters two and three of the Book of Revelation. The book presents that the revelations and messages to the seven churches of Asia Minor by John are essentially contextual and specifically local; meaningful only for the Christians of the first-century A.D. located in these seven churches. Any future expectations in the Book of Revelation are imminently relevant for these seven churches as their prevailing historical conditions predispose. The underlying postulation is that, John, through a revelation of Jesus Christ, was exposing the signs of the times in these seven churches that were either plaguing or needing redressal of the situations they were in during the late first-century A.D. in Asia Minor.