Revelation 22:7

Verse seven begins, "Behold I come quickly." It is an entire misconception to apply these words to the event technically known as Christ's second personal coming, as so many do in these days. The last chapter like the first has its standpoint among the churches of the first century. Christ, through John, is warning them of the storm about to break upon their heads, and "behold I come quickly" has evident reference to those judgments to which, in their day, they stood in close proximity, the judgments of their persecutors described in the early part of the book. Only by arbitrarily wresting such expressions from the close-woven texture of the book can they be made to refer to some event long future to John and still future to our own age. He who grasps in one comprehensive conception the whole book, with its related details, will not commit such an error of interpretation. Verse seven ends with these words: "Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book," almost an exact duplicate of chapter one, verse three.