I, John, … was on the island called Patmos… Revelation 1:9.

Loneliness … John was alone on the Island of Patmos. No Christian brothers around for fellowship …even if someone wanted to help him, they could not help! Piles of rocks all around him. And the only sound was that of the beating waves … a dreadful situation!

Uncertainty … There was nothing eventful happening in Patmos except that the days were passing by …. What does hope mean on an island meant to exile and punish criminals! Empty days and empty nights! 

The pain of memories … the memory of the sweet and joyful experiences of the past ... they come racing into the mind! Friends, family members, classmates, … many faces light up in the mind …. you cannot mention each by name … the pain of the prisoners at Patmos!!

Many questions!! Why? Why am I in Patmos? Is deliverance possible? 

Definitely these questions might have crowded John’s mind as well!

Let me describe the experiences of John in the lines below.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, and when I turned back … and in the middle of the lampstands, I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and wrapped around the chest with a golden sash. His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like burnished bronze when it has been heated to a glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining in its strength. Revelation 1:13-16.

The glorified Christ was in Patmos!! John received the answer to all his questions. No more loneliness … no more uncertainty… no painful memories …. 

The loud trumpet of the Lord Jesus again sounded on Patmos! “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades."

Worship rises from their hearts! The prisoner at Patmos falls at the feet of Jesus…

A door is kept open in heaven … the heavenly throne …. the Lamb that was slain … heavenly praises … the New Jerusalem … 

Behold Patmos!! …. it has become a place of blessing! Hallelujah … all glory to God! Amen!!