
One day, a man named John had a vision. The book of Revelation is John's record of that vision. You see, John was a Christian leader of Jewish origin who was in exile on the Roman Prison Island of Patmos.
Revelation was written as a letter to be circulated among the Christian churches at seven important cities in Asia Minor: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.
"Apocalypse" means The Revealing of Divine Mysteries; John wrote down what he felt was revealed (what he sees in his vision) and sent it to the seven churches. The entire book constitutes the letter - the letters to the seven individual churches are introductions to the rest of the book, which is also addressed to all
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