CHAPTER ONE
Divisions 1-25
A product of John the Apostle a year before the Book of Revelation was written in AD 78. 5 copies are known, each with some variants that corroborate into the full book. (The usual process.)
2ND REVELATION OF JOHN
1.
After the taking up of our Lord Jesus Christ,
I, John, was alone upon Mount Tabor,
where also He showed us His undefiled Godhead;
2.
and as I was not able to stand,
I fell upon the ground, and prayed to the Lord, and said :
3.
Lord my God, who hast deemed me worthy to be Thy servant,
Hear my voice,
and teach me about Thy coming;
4.
When Thou shalt come to the Earth, what will happen?
5.
The Heaven and the Earth, and the sun and the moon,
what will happen to them in those times?
6.
Reveal to me all of what will happen;
for I am emboldened, because Thou listenest to Thy servant.
7.
And I spent 7 days praying;
and after this a cloud of light caught me up from the mountain,
and set me before the face of the Heaven.
8.
And I heard a voice saying to me:
Look up, John, servant of God, and see,
9.
and having looked up, I saw the heaven opened,
and there came forth from within the heaven a smell of perfumes of much sweet odour;
and I saw an exceeding great flood of light, more resplendent than the sun.