Dear Beloved Brethren of God’s one and only true Church,
To this small group of people ( currently Philadelphians, and Laodiceans ) , who can trace their history all the way back to the NT times through the eras of Sardis, Thyatira, Pergamos, Smyrna, Ephesus(the first era); from the Apostle Peter: 1Pet 1: 2 The Elect of the Eternal God according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace