Before Revelation was written, led by the alive-from-the-dead Jesus Christ, there were two main groups like there are today. There were firstly the Pharisees, like the Evangelicals and Protestants of today, judging everything by their specially selected set of scriptures, like with Bible enthusiasts today. Secondly there were the much more secular Sadducees, like the secular politicians and bureaucrats of today, not even really believing in a resurrection, and despising most of the scriptures. Jesus was not like either group. He brought into his divine work of the Book of Revelation a belief in more scriptures than those authorised by the Pharisees: More scriptures than the Protestants authorise today. He let Revelation draw material from other scriptures too, such as the Book of Enoch. Jesus had beliefs more like those of groups such as the Essenes, and those who amassed the collection of scriptures found last century at Qumran, called the Dead Sea Scrolls. Even today the Holy Spirit reflects to us the beliefs of Jesus along these lines. When we test revelations like the Book of Revelation against scriptures, we might bear in mind that there are more scriptures holding truth, and what Revelation tells us is in line with these too, even beyond what our Protestant and Secularists tell us today.
