Revelation 22:10, The Time is Near

Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near.”

//The command to seal not the words of Revelation stands in stark contrast to the instructions Daniel received at the end of his book. The prophecies of Daniel would not have an immediate fulfillment in his own time. John must treat his book differently than did Daniel, because, in the case of Revelation, the “time is near.” But how soon is soon?

John of Patmos imagined an immediate return of Chr...