John saw visions and wrote what he saw down. This was common work for a prophet. Often the visions of the spirit world were symbolic in nature (e.g. Jeremiah 1; Zechariah), and they sometimes related to the future. But the point of the visions and the sermons related to them was to re-focus the devotion and ethical behavior of the recipients.
"Prophecy" in the Hebrew Scriptures, as well as the NT, was not just a proclamation of God's word, but receiving direct revelation from the alternative universe in which God dwells.
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