Jabarkan Revelation dari Ramalan Alkitab dalam bahasa melayu

In this first-century text, Jesus is spoken of as telling the Seven churches of Asia (, ) that he will come "soon". (, )(see also Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Two Witnesses, Woman of the Apocalypse, The Beast, Whore of Babylon, Millennialism)

The word "soon" (other translations use "shortly" or "quickly") does not have to be understood in the sense of close future. The Norwegian scholar Thorleif Boman explained that the Israelites, unlike Europeans or people in the West, did not understand time as something measurable or calculable according to Hebrew thinking but as something qualitative: