Scene in Heaven
1 After these things I looked, and behold, a doorstandingopen in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, likethe soundof a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”
2 Immediately I wasin the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.
3 And He who was sittingwaslike a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; andthere wasa rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.
4 Around the throneweretwenty-four thrones; and upon the thronesI sawtwenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.
The Throne and Worship of the Creator
5 Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. Andthere wereseven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
6 and before the thronethere was somethinglike a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.
7 The first creaturewaslike a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creaturewaslike a flying eagle.
8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, “Holy,holy,holyistheLordGod,theAlmighty,who was and who is and whois to come.”
9 And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.”
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