1 [THIS IS] the revelation of Jesus Christ [His unveiling of the divine mysteries]. God gave it to Him to disclose and make known to His bond servants certain things which must shortly and speedily come to pass 1 in their entirety. And He sent and communicated it through His angel (messenger) to His bond servant John, 2 Who has testified to and vouched for all that he saw [ 2 in his visions], the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed (happy, 3 to be envied) is the man who reads aloud [in the assemblies] the word of this prophecy; and blessed (happy, 3 to be envied) are those who hear [it read] and who keep themselves true to the things which are written in it [heeding them and laying them to heart], for the time [for them to be fulfilled] is near.