Revelation of John 1:10-16
10 aI was in the Spirit bon the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice clike a trumpet 11saying, d“Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw eseven golden lampstands, 13and in the midst of the lampstands fone like ga son of man, hclothed with a long robe and iwith a golden sash around his chest. 14 jThe hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. kHis eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 lhis feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and mhis voice was like the roar of many waters. 16 nIn his right hand he held seven stars, ofrom his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and phis face was like the sun shining qin full strength.
Revelation of John 4
The Throne in Heaven
1After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me rlike a trumpet, said, s“Come up here, and tI will show you what must take place after this.” 2At once uI was in the Spirit, and behold, va throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. 3And he who sat there had the appearance of wjasper and carnelian, and around the throne was xa rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 4Around the throne were ytwenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, zclothed in white garments, with aagolden crowns on their heads. 5From the throne came abflashes of lightning, and rumblings ▼▼Or voices, or sounds
and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning adseven torches of fire, aewhich are the seven spirits of God, 6and before the throne there was afas it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are agfour living creatures, ahfull of eyes in front and behind: 7 aithe first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 8And the four living creatures, ajeach of them with six wings, are akfull of eyes all around and within, and alday and night they never cease to say,
am“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
anwho was and is and is to come!”
9And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, aowho lives forever and ever, 10the twenty-four elders apfall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast aqtheir crowns before the throne, saying,
11 ar“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for asyou created all things,
and atby your will they existed and were created.”
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