This is not the only threat to Christians in AD 95. Within the churches are some members who want to take control and twist the gospel to suit themselves. Danger without and danger within—is God really in control? In part to answer this question for embattled Christians in the first century and every century since, God gave a series of visions to someone named John. It is called “The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place” (Revelation 1:1).