Revelation 1:9
What is written? (ESV)
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
What does it say?
I, John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation, the kingdom, and the patient endurance – all in Jesus – was on Patmos because of the word of God and the witness of Jesus Christ.
What is its immediate context?
The book of Revelation is what John saw and was told to write down (1:1-2). Using “in the Spirit” as a structural marker, the book can be sectioned into four visions in particular:
- Vision One (1:9-3:22) – Jesus speaking to the seven churches
- Vision Two (4:1-16:21) – Seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls of wrath; “one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls” introduces the last two (and therefore possibly connected):
- Vision Three (17:1-21:8) – Babylon the Harlot
- Vision Four (21:9-22:5) – Jerusalem the Bride
How Revelation 1:9 is applied across Bible answers
Is there a Great Tribulation in the Bible?
John addresses his first-century audience as fellow partakers in a common tribulation/persecution that was presently happening "on account of the word of God"
Jesus taught about this danger in the parable of the sower.7
When is the Tribulation on earth?
John addresses his first-century audience as fellow partakers in a common tribulation/persecution that was presently happening "on account of the word of God"
This was a danger exactly as taught by Jesus in the parable of the sower.7
