New Testament are a crucial source for the understanding of the revelator’s mind-set. While we don’t know for certain which of those documents he had read, if any, he was certainly familiar with the Christian traditions of his day and expressed them symbolically in Revelation. The Greek word for east appears 10 times in the New Testament, mostly as a directional reference. But in Luke 1:78 the east refers to Jesus Christ Himself, and in Matthew 24:27 the east is the direction from which Christ returns