Eschatology

"This much-abused book is thought by many Christians to predict events which will occur only many centuries later. In fact it is filled with an urgent message for the Christians who lived when it was written. They had to be ready, for it spoke of things that "must shortly" (1:1) because "the hour of fulfillment is near" (1:3) and because Christ is "coming soon" (3:11). Three times in Revelation 22 Jesus says, "I am coming soon." This is another instance, not of distant things, but of signs which lay before the door, not the distant, since the Judge was at the door (James 5:9)."

~Adrio Konig, The Eclipse of Christ in Eschatology, p. 192