If the bible was written before the Church then why did St. John send the book of Revelation to the7 Churches?

It's obviously a reference to the Roman Church. It wasn't included in the biblical cannon until about 400AD, which means the Romans didn't care for it since they were the ones who originally put the Christian cannon together. It seems to have been written by the Eastern Orthodox Churches who were in competition with the Roman Catholic church at that time.

It had to be written in code so the Romans couldn't claim it was about them and persecute the people who wrote or read it, but it's obvious that it was if you read the various references such as this one: "This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits." - Revelation 17:9 That's an obvious reference to Rome since it sits on seven hills. And the "woman" could have referred to Flavia Domitilla, an early saint in the Catholic Church.

From this reference below you can see why it makes sense since Revelation makes many disparaging references to the Jews. "Some scholars connect Domitilla with a character in Jewish tradition. A Roman Matron in the Talmud (Avodah Zarah 10b) and the Deuteronomy Rabbah 2.25.

When the emperor had decreed that in 30 days, the Senate would confirm an edict to kill all Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire, the Roman matron convinced her husband to stand up for the Jews. If that identification is correct, her husband Flavius Clemens converted to Judaism, after having contact with the great sage Rabbi Akiva (Akiba ben Joseph). This may integrate with the tradition of her as a Christian."

Maybe the very early Roman Christians still adhered to Jewish laws, while the Greek based Orthodox churches didn't. That led to the Romans persecuting the Greek Orthodox churches and Revelation was written around that time to give hope to those 7 churches of Greece/Turkey that they would prevail in the end. It would make sense in light of this comment below: Dio reports:3 "Domitian slew, along with many others, Flavius Clemens the consul, although he was a cousin and married to Flavia Domitilla, who was also a relative of the emperor's.

The charge brought against them both was that of atheism (?), a charge on which many others who drifted into Jewish ways were condemned. Some of these were put to death, and the rest were at least deprived of their property. Domitilla was merely banished to Pandateria (Ventotene).

Because those revelations are not a constant in the final analysis of anything. The codes, symbols, and inability to write something *concrete* for the future, tell their own tale. THERE IS * N O T H I N G * DEVINE HERE, WHATSOEVER.

The authors and their rather pitiful view of what a future might hold .... couldn't affect the flight of a fly. The Book of Revelation, not unlike the entire Bible itself, will come in handy if there is ever a toilet paper shortage.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.