Facing coming betrayal, judgment, and death, in just a matter of hours, Jesus of Nazareth, meeting with His apostles, in a large furnished upper room (cf. Luke 22:12) said, “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also” (John 14:19, NKJV, emp. added).
One of those who saw and heard Jesus in that upper room was the apostle John. Sixty-five years later, while banished to the island of Patmos off the southwest coast of Asia Minor, John saw and heard Jesus again. John describes a part of what he saw and heard in the following: “. . . [W]hen I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, ‘Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death” (Revelation 1:17-18).
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