Revelation 22:10

3. By GOD, bringing before us and realizing the judgment as immediate, Revelation 22:10-15.

10. And he saith Who saith? The connexion, as well as the entire tenor of the words said, show that it is none other than the Lord God of Revelation 22:6 who sent the angel so over-honoured by John. God sent the angel; John saw, heard, and almost worshipped; and then God saith as follows.

God testifies to this apocalypse most strongly, by forbidding it to be sealed up, and by furnishing a vivid realization of its immediate fulfilment.

In the words of God which follow, the seer is in spirit transferred to the last hours and minutes before the impending judgment-advent. Rather, we may say, that the advent is conceptually brought to the immediate future. See note, Revelation 1:7. That the judgment-advent is not taught to be literally at hand, is certain from the very fact that the millennium (xx) is made to intervene. It is in God’s own view that the divine coming is just at hand. See 2 Peter 3:8.

Seal not… at hand The book was to be kept unsealed and ready for the reading of all, as the event is virtually at hand to every human reader.