⁶ Then the angel said to me, “Everything you have heard and seen is trustworthy and true. The Lord God, who inspires his prophets,^[a] has sent his angel to tell his servants what will happen soon.^[b]”

Prologue

1 This is a revelation from^[a] Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the events that must soon^[b] take place. He sent an angel to present this revelation to his servant John,

⁵ And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”

⁹ And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb.” And he added, “These are true words that come from God.”

²¹ or from human initiative. No, those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God.

⁹ Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?^[a]

² God promised this Good News long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures.

¹⁸ But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had foretold about the Messiah—that he must suffer these things.