Revelation 4:1-11
After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying,“ Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the thronethat looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.Around the throne were twenty- four thrones. On the thrones were twenty- four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying,“ Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,the twenty- four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,“ Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
Revelation 1:11-2:3
saying,“ What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two- edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying,“ Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter.The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.“ To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write:“ He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:“ I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
