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| [1]After these things, I looked and lo, a door [was] open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard, was as of a trumpet talking with me. It said, Come up hither; and I will show thee the things that must occur hereafter. |
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| [2]Instantly, I was in the Spirit: and lo, a throne was placed in heaven; and there was [one] seated on the throne. |
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| [3]And he who sat, was like the appearance of a jasper-stone, and of a sardine [sard], and of a rainbow of the clouds, round about the throne, in form as the appearance of emeralds. |
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| [4]Around the throne were twenty and four seats; and upon those seats sat twenty and four Elders, who were clothed in white robes, and on whose heads were coronets of gold. |
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| [5]And from the throne proceeded lightnings, and the sound of thunders; and seven lamps of fire were burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. |
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| [6]And before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and around it, and before the throne, were four Animals, full of eyes in their front and in their rear. |
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| [7]And the first Animal resembled a lion; and the second Animal resembled a calf; and the third Animal had a face like a man; and the fourth Animal resembled an eagle when flying. |
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| [8]And these four Animals had, each of them, six wings around it: and within they were full of eyes: and they have no cessation, day or night, from saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord God, the Omnipotent, who was, and is, and is to come. |
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| [9]And when these Animals give glory and honor and praise to him that sitteth on the throne, to him who liveth for ever and ever, |
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| [10]the twenty and four Elders fall down before him who sitteth on the throne, and they worship him who liveth for ever and ever; and they cast their coronets before the throne, saying, |
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| [11]Worthy art thou, O Lord our God, the Holy, to receive glory and honor and power; for thou hast created all things, and by thee they exist; and because of thy pleasure they had being and were created. |
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| [12]Him that is victorious, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall not again go out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and of the new Jerusalem which descendeth from heaven from my God, and my own new name. |
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| [13]He that hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. |
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| [14]And to the angel of the church which is at Laodicea, write: These things saith the Amen, the witness, the faithful, the true, the Chief of the creation of God: |
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| [15]I know thy works, that thou art neither hot, nor cold; I would that thou wert cold or hot. |
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| [16]So, because thou art lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit thee from my mouth. |
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| [17]Because thou sayest, I am rich and affluent, and have no want of any thing; and thou knowest not, that thou art impotent, and miserable, and needy, and blind, and naked; |
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| [18]I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white raiment, to be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not be seen; and put eye-salve on thine eyes, that thou mayest see. |
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| [19]As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be emulous therefore, and repent. |
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| [20]Behold, I have been standing at the door, and I will knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. |
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| [21]And to him that is victorious, to him will I give to sit with me on my throne, even as I was victorious, and sat down with my Father on his throne. |
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| [22]He that hath ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. |
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