>>>I see no issues with his approach. It is clear he saw the 7 churches as literal and the messages to them as literal, and that such assurances, rebukes and promises apply to the church in all ages to include today. I would not go as far as he did in applying an historic attribution, but in any era there are elements of the 7 Asian churches in all churches.<<<
That, my friend, is a clear case of spiritualizing the scriptures.
Philip
Frankly it is not spiritualizing scriptures. To say so would mean we cannot apply the NT epistles written to specific churches of that time today. There are elements of Corinth and Ephesus and others within the body of Christ today. I stated I disagreed with Scofield’s assessment of attributing the various churches with periods of time. That is actually a historicist approach.