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Biblical Anatolia
...I was caught up in
spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a voice as loud as a
trumpet, 'Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven
churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia
and Laodicea.'
(Rv 1:10-11)
Turkey is called the Other
Holy Land as it has more biblical sites than any other country in the
Middle East. Unfortunately many Christians are unaware of Turkey’s unique
role in the Bible because Biblical references works usually refer to this
strategic peninsula, that bounded by the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Black
Seas, as Asia Minor or Anatolia.
Turkey is very important in understanding the background of the New
Testament, because
approximately two-thirds of its books were written either to or from
churches in Turkey where the three major apostles—Peter, St. Paul, and St.
John—either ministered or lived in.
Turkey’s rich spiritual
heritage starts at the very beginning in the book of Genesis.
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