RE-4:1  After this I looked, and, behold, a door [was] opened in

heaven: and

the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of a trumpet

talking with me;

which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which

must be

hereafter.

RE-4:2  And immediately I was in the spirit; and, behold, a

throne was set in

heaven, and [one] sat on the throne.

RE-4:3  And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a

sardine stone: and

[there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto

an emerald.

RE-4:4  And round about the throne [were] four and twenty seats:

and upon the

seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white

raiment; and they

had on their heads crowns of gold.

RE-4:5  And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and

thunderings and voices:

and [there were] seven lamps of fire burning before the throne,

which are the

seven Spirits of God.

RE-4:6  And before the throne [there was] a sea of glass like

unto crystal: and

in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, [were]

four beasts full

of eyes before and behind.

RE-4:7  And the first beast [was] like a lion, and the second

beast like a

calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth

beast [was] like

a flying eagle.

RE-4:8  And the four beasts had each of them six wings about

[him]; and [they

were] full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night,

saying, Holy, holy,

holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

RE-4:9  And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks

to him that sat

on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

RE-4:10  The four and twenty elders fall down before him that

sat on the

throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast

their crowns

before the throne, saying,

RE-4:11  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour

and power: for

thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and

were created.

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