Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy out loud, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart everything it says. The time when these things will come true is drawing near.
I was about to write down what they said when they spoke, but I heard a voice from heaven tell me, “Seal up what the seven thunders said, and don’t write it down.”
Then I saw that the one who was sitting on the throne was holding a scroll in his right hand. The scroll had writing on both sides, and it was sealed with seven seals.
Don’t let anyone trick you in any way. That day won’t come until people rise up against God and the man of sin appears. He’s a marked man, headed for ruin.
When you do these things, keep in mind the times we’re living in. The time has already come for you to wake up from your sleep. The full effects of our salvation are closer now than when we first believed in Christ.
The voice said, “Write what you see on a scroll and send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book that if anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book.