the new covenant, we are under “angelic” oversight, but the Angel who now governs the church is the Angel who is God himself. ἀποστείλας (1:1) fits this hypothesis: The Son sends the Spirit (Jn 15:26), as he sends the angel; the Spirit testifies of Jesus, as John testifies concerning the word of God and the witness of Jesus. As noted above (→Introduction), the Spirit is the agent of the four main visionary sequences in Revelation, and that is anticipated by the reference to Jesus’s Angel-Spirit.