Revelation 1:11-13; Heavenly Vision
Revelation 1:11-12 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. 12 And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
The book of Revelation gives to us the most comprehensive account of God’s coming future judgment upon mankind for their rebellion against their Creator God. This judgment comes in the wake of severe persecution that would come upon all who stand for “the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Rev. 1:9).
This book, written by the Apostle John from the prison cell in the island of Patmos in Greece during A.D. 90., will close the entire canon of God’s revelation. [1]
The Romans persecuted the Christians who acknowledged not Caesar but Jesus Christ as Lord; Romans officials considered John an instigator of the Christian religion. Tradition says that after Domitian’s death, his successor Nerva released John and permitted him to return to Ephesus.[2]
There is a rescue mission for salvation of souls of men and women through Jesus Christ who has the solution over man’s greatest problem of death and judgment in hell for He alone “holds the keys of hell and of death” (Rev. 1:18b).