The apostle John receives divine visions of revelation from the angel of Jesus Christ, of things which must soon come to pass Revelation 1:1 - with the destruction of Jerusalem and its former system of things which had become corrupted, and the implementation of Christ's kingdom under the new covenant or promised salvation through the Messiah alone.
Driven by the wish to meet the last living witness of the Lord’s passion, the young Christian Irene succeeds in gaining access to John’s prison. Entrusting the written record of his visions to her, he begs Irene to spread its message among the Christians.
These visions form the contents of the Book of Revelaton. To some, they evoke the end of the world, to others they clearly speak of the forthcoming destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 70AD, as previously spoken of and prophesied by Jesus in Matthew 24 and elsewhere, and by many apostles during the establishment of the first congregations.
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