Revelation 1
One Like a Son of Man Among the Lampstands
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The Revelation and Its Blessing
1:1A revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His slaves the things that must take place soon. He made it known by sending through His angel to His slave John,
1:2who testified to the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, all that he saw.
1:3Blessed is the one who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things written in it, for the time is near.
Greeting to the Seven Churches
1:4John, to the seven Churches in Asia: grace to you and peace from the One who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven spirits before His throne,
1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the One who loves us and freed us from our sins in His blood—
1:6and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and dominion for the ages of the ages. Amen.
1:7Look, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. Yes, amen.
1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.
I, John, Your Brother and Fellow Sharer
1:9I, John, your brother and fellow partner in the affliction and kingdom and endurance in Jesus, came to be on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
1:10I came to be in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
1:11saying, “What you see, write in a scroll and send to the seven Churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
One Like a Son of Man
1:12And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,
1:13and in the midst of the lampstands One like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet and girded around the chest with a golden belt.
1:14And His head and hair were white like white wool, like snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire,
1:15and His feet like burnished bronze, as refined in a furnace, and His voice like the sound of many waters.
1:16And He held seven stars in His right hand, and from His mouth a sharp two-edged sword was coming out, and His appearance was like the sun shining in its strength.
1:17And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He placed His right hand upon me, saying, “Do not fear. I am the first and the last,
1:18and the living One. I became dead, and look, I am living for the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and Hades.
The Command to Write
1:19Therefore write the things you saw, and the things that are, and the things that are to take place after these.
1:20The mystery of the seven stars you saw upon My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are angels of the seven Churches, and the seven lampstands are seven Churches.”
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