Revelation of John 1:10-20
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.
17 rWhen I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But she laid his right hand on me, tsaying, “Fear not, uI am the first and the last, 18and the living one. vI died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and wI have the keys of Death and Hades. 19 xWrite therefore ythe things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. 20As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and zthe seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and aathe seven lampstands are the seven churches.
Revelation of John 4:2-11
2At once abI was in the Spirit, and behold, aca throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. 3And he who sat there had the appearance of adjasper and carnelian, and around the throne was aea rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 4Around the throne were aftwenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, agclothed in white garments, with ahgolden crowns on their heads. 5From the throne came aiflashes of lightning, and rumblings ▼▼Or voices, or sounds
and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning akseven torches of fire, alwhich are the seven spirits of God, 6and before the throne there was amas it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are anfour living creatures, aofull of eyes in front and behind: 7 apthe 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, aqeach of them with six wings, are arfull of eyes all around and within, and asday and night they never cease to say,
at“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
auwho 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, avwho lives forever and ever, 10the twenty-four elders awfall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast axtheir crowns before the throne, saying,
11 ay“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for azyou created all things,
and baby your will they existed and were created.”
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