1:1, is “to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass.” Old Testament predictions of the first coming and work of the Messiah met actual fulfillment in historic time. Over and over we read in the gospels that certain events happened “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet.” These later predictions, of things “which must shortly come to pass,” may also be definitely proved by their actual and successive fulfillment in human history. John says we shall be blessed