seal his book up until the time of the end. To seal up a book meant to keep its contents hidden until a future time, the time when they would be fulfilled. But in Revelation 22:10 John is told just the opposite: he is not to seal up his book, because the time is near. The fact that the time was at hand or near meant that the events of Revelation were about to be or were already being fulfilled in John’s day through the person of Jesus Christ. This was a book for his first readers, not for some future