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The Throne in Heaven

Verse1After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

Verse2At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.

Verse3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.

Verse4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.

Worship of the Creator

Verse5From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven spirits of God.

Verse6And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.

Verse7The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.

Verse8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

Verse9And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

Verse10the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

Verse11“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”