Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things.
When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.
He said to me, “You must not do that!
I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book.
Worship God.”
He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.