Your argument is with Jesus. He wrote what He wrote. He wrote letters to seven different kinds of churches, or assemblies. These were groups of people in seven different locations that were subject to different political, economic, and spiritual environments. Only two churches receive no rebuke from Jesus: Smyrna, the persecuted church, and Philadelphia, the faithful church. The other five receive some degree of rebuke and are called to repentance.
The victors were the one common thread in all the churches and they are the only ones who will be “kept from the time of trial”. They represent the One Apostolic Church, not the organizations of men to which they belong. Their names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
That seems to be a really important thing. When the disciples came back from preparing field for Jesus, and boasted that “even the demons are subject to us”, Jesus told them that didn’t mattered, what mattered was that their names were written in heaven.
As for the 1500 denominations, that sounds like a big mustard tree with lots of birds nesting in and under it. This is what Jesus said would happen the the Kingdom of Heaven here on Earth before he came again to make things right.
Just make sure you have extra oil for your lamp, because if you have to go get some you will miss the wedding feast. You do that by reading the Word as found in the Bible and allowing the Holy Spirit to guide you to your proper path.
Climb down off your pedestal, and quit your lecturing, I am neither your student nor your enemy. Think the next time you bash a Catholic because you’re bashing a believer even though I am sure you’ve found a scriptural reference to refute the fact that Catholics are Christians - OC’S BY THE WAY, ORIGINAL CHRISTIANS. AGAIN, STOP A MINUTE A READ WHAT YOU WRITE, YOU CLEARLY DON’T UNDERSTAND A WORD YOU SAY. Find someone else to annoy.
I think the seven letters were to His Church on the seven continents. There are seven continents, you know. His Church will spread the whole Earth.
This is what happens when you read the Bible with an agenda of disliking Catholics. If you read with a mind open to other than that, you will see there is an obvious answer.
Christ prayed for unity for HIS Church. His perfect prayer would always be granted. Protestantism is not unified. Therefore, it is not Christ’s Church. Man created Protestantism. Those of us with the oil in our lamps have been faithfully waiting for Christ in the Catholic Church since Day One. Just as He told us to do.