"A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his servants the things that must shortly take place. And he sent forth his angel and presented [it] in signs through him to his servant John, who bore witness to the word God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, even to all the things he saw.  Happy is he who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and who observe the things written in it; for the appointed time is near.." Rv1:1