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revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, in all he saw. 3 Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and keep what is written in it, because the time is near.
4 John,
To the seven churches in the province of Asia:
Grace and peace to you from Him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before His throne; 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood, 6 and made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
7 Look! He is coming with the clouds,
every eye will see Him;
even those who pierced Him;
and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him.
So shall it be! Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 11 saying: “Write on a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe reaching down to His feet, and with a golden sash around His chest. 14 His head and His hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a flame of fire. 15 His feet were like fine bronze glowing in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. 16 In His right hand He held seven stars, and from His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in the fullness of its strength.
17 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead. Then He placed His right hand on me, and said, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. 18 I am the Living One. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of Death and of Hades. 19 Write what you have seen, what is, and what will take place after this. 20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, is this: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.