I, John, who am your Brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the Message of God and the testimony to Jesus.

Be on the watch, and strengthen what still survives, though once it was all but dead; for I have not found your life perfect in the eyes of my God.

At this I wept long, because no one could be found who was worthy to open the book or look within it.

In those days men 'will seek Death and will not find it'; They will long to die, but Death flees from them.

The fruit that your soul craved is no longer within your reach, and all dainties and luxuries are lost to you, never to be found again.'

No more shall the music of harpers, or minstrels, or flute players, or trumpeters be heard in you, no more shall any worker, skilled in any art, be found in you; no more shall the sound of a mill be heard in you;

Yes, and in her was to be found the blood of the Prophets and of Christ's People, and of all who have been put to death upon the earth.'

and all whose names 'were not found written in the Book of Life' were hurled into the lake of fire.