Fr. Mike Schmitz

God is saying, okay, I want you to get prepared.

I want you to get prepared for this persecution and just know that there is a battle happening that's going on in this world between evil in the world and between God.

Not that evil and God are equal.

Not at all.

Not even close.

But because we live in this world, because we live on this planet, because we live in this time that's broken, there is this battle that is waging.

So let's begin.

Chapter 1.

We have this revelation.

And...

I can't even begin.

I'm so glad you all read the Old Testament because you know that when someone like John, when he says something like, here is Jesus, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, the ruler of the kings on the earth.

Or when it says that here's Jesus, I saw one like a son of man come.

Like, wait a second.

I've heard those terms like in Daniel, book of Daniel.

That's a really big deal.

Jesus even himself says, you will see the son of man coming in power and glory.

So we know the background for all this, but

The background of the context of this is I, John, your brother, in chapter 1, verse 9, who share with you in the tribulation, in Jesus, in the tribulation, in the kingdom, in the patience, endurance, on the island of Patmos.

He was exiled to the island of Patmos.