and 'the future of the nation of Israel'.

Verse 3

:Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.
* This is the first of the so called 'seven beatitudes' in the book of Revelation (cf. , ; ; ; ,), which are pronounced on the readers, the hearers (to whom the book are read aloud, according to the custom in the antiquity) and those who heed the message (, ; cf. ).
*"For the time is near": may refer to b about the time when "the

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