Revelation was written prior to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE by the Romans. This infers that this John, the author, was at least active during this time. In regards to the importance situation of the time when it was written, there are a couple of factors that play into this. The first is the emperor of rome, Nore, who killed leaders of early christian movement, Peter and Paul, and may have even blamed the burning of rome on the Christian allowing for almost apocalyptic view of their situation. Furthermore, Revelations are written letters to seven specifics churches which personalize most of the apocalyptic image.
This is John as perilous state is The author of Revelations is not the John of Gospels of John nor john baptist-- he is John of Patmos. John is of Patmos meaning he lives in a place called Patmos. Patmos is an island in the Aegean Sea. There can be several reasons why John could have been of Patmos. The first is a more positive outlook that John put himself there to spread the word of christ. The other, and more likely is that John was exiled to the island because of him preaching about Christ (Ruiz, 2156). In the Spirit means to have a prophetic visions. These visions are almost always terrifying. For example in Revelation 1:17 “When I saw him, I fell at his feet though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying,
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In 1 Corinthians 14 the author, the bible Paul, focuses on what the spirit can do in terms of tongues. Paul states in this passage that one must be able to interpret Tongues in order for them to be meaningful and actual from the Spirit. The lord days is on starts saturday sundown and ends on sunday sundown this celebrates Jesus's resurrection(Ruiz, 2156). Where as the Sabbath starts on Friday sundown and ends on saturday sundown and celebrates