The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 101 (September 14, 2026)

Revelation doesn’t open with dragons. It opens with seven report cards—from Jesus himself.

Jimmy traces the Roman road that linked Ephesus to Laodicea, explains why these seven churches, and unpacks praise, rebuke, the martyr Antipas, and a prophetess Jesus names Jezebel.

Then he takes on a popular prophecy chart: that the seven churches are seven ages of history, with us as the last, lukewarm church. Jimmy shows that idea isn’t in the text—and why the dates keep shifting so the teacher always lives in the final age.

Real churches. Real sins.

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:19 – Intro
00:48 – 1 The Seven Churches of Asia
01:46 – 2 Why Seven?
06:36 – 3 Messages, Not Letters
12:27 – 4 Commendation and Condemnation
15:46 – 5 A Window Into the First Century
18:36 – 6 Seven Ages of the Church?
27:17 – 7 Conclusion
27:55 – Closing/Outro
29:03 – End