Fr. Mike Schmitz

So the number of 12 be a number of power, a number of

completeness.

10 is powerful, but not all powerful.

10 would be powerful, but limited.

And that is just kind of a little insight, little clue that when we read the word 10 here in the book of Revelation, that's what that is.

Oftentimes, I believe maybe even every time is referencing.

There's power there.

It's long lasting, but it's not lasting forever.

It's not all powerful.

So it's limited power.

It's limited time.

Hopefully that makes sense.

But let's look at the dating.

So John says that he writes the book.

And so the traditional

Our belief is that John, the beloved John, you know, that he wrote this book of Revelation, that this is a revelation from Jesus Christ to John so that he can pass it on to the churches.

Now, we talked about the seven churches.

So the addressees of John's book of Revelation are these seven churches in Asia.

And we just get to hear in these first three chapters, we get to hear what's going on in those churches.

But before that, let's back up even more and say, what's the dating of this book of Revelation?