God Gave Him - Revelation 1:1-3

Revelation 1:1-3 ESV 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

God is the testimony of Jesus. 

Jesus is the word of God. 

The Holy Spirit is His angel who speaks the truth. 

Jesus only speaks what He hears from His Father, for He is of the Father. When God speaks into creation, it is with the word that is God. It is through the power of the Spirit that the word is revealed. He is still speaking the word of creation into the hearts of man. We are being transformed into a new creation. The Holy Spirit overshadows us and we are reborn into the life of God. 

Reading the word contains the idea of knowing it again. The word is received by John which is the first knowing. He knows it again as he puts the revelation into written words enabling the revelation to be shared with others. Reading it out loud gives witness to those unable to read. It is confessed and proclaimed in the reading aloud. 

Hearing reflects an understanding of what is read, which comes from meditation on the word. The word is given. The word enters a man through the ears and eyes, but the word takes root within the heart of a man.

Keeping the word means taking it to heart and living the word. It is nourished by faith and obedience and grows into a tree in the Garden of God. It is incumbent on each one of us to tend and work the soil of our earth so the seed of the word will prosper. 

God has spoken from the beginning, and from a mountaintop, and through His Son and now in our hearts. He speaks through this revelation given to John. Through it all and through the Holy Spirit, He is still speaking.