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1 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.”
2 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in
heaven, and one sitting on the throne 3 that looked like a jasper stone
and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look
at. 4 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. 5 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. 6 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass,
similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were
four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. 7 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. 8 The four
living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around
about and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “
9 When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits
on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, 10 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,
11 “Worthy are you, our Lord
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