A vision of heaven
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📚After these things I looked, and saw 📖 a door opened 📖 in heaven, and the voice 📖 which I first heard speaking to me was like a trumpet which said, “Come up here, 📖 and I will show you things which must take place after these things 📖”. 2 📚And immediately I was in the Spirit 📖, and saw that a throne was set in heaven 📖, and one sitting on the throne. 3 📚And he who sat there in appearance was like a jasper and a sardius stone. And there was a rainbow 📖 around the throne, like an emerald in appearance 📖. 4 📚And around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders 📖 sitting, dressed in white clothing, and they had crowns of gold on their heads. 5 📚And from the throne came lightning flashes and thunderings 📖 and voices. And seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits 📖 of God. 6 📚Also before the throne there was a sea of glass 📖, like crystal. And in the central area of the throne and around the throne, were four living beings 📖 full of eyes 📖 in front and in back. 7 📚And the first living being was like a lion, and the second living being was like a calf, and the third living being had a face like a man, and the fourth living being was like a flying eagle 📖. 8 📚And the four living beings each had six wings. All around and on the inside of the wings they were full of eyes. And they do not rest day and night, saying,
“Holy, holy, holy 📖,
Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come 📖”.
9 📚And when those living beings give glory and honour and thanks 📖 to him who sits on the throne, who lives for ever and ever 📖, 10 📚the twenty-four elders prostrate themselves before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever, and cast their crowns 📖 before the throne, saying,
11 📚“You are worthy, O Lord and God, to receive glory
and honour and power,
for you have created all things,
and for your pleasure 📖 they exist
and were created”.
4:11 They praise God as the Creator of the universe (Rev 10:6; Gen 1:1; Job 38:4-7; Ps 19:1; Isa 40:25-26; Acts 14:15; 17:24-28; Rom 11:36).⚜