Revelation 4

After these things I looked, and there was an open door in heaven! The first voice I had heard, speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place.” After these things, I was immediately in the Spirit. And look, a throne stood in heaven, and someone was seated on the throne. The one seated there was like jasper and carnelian in appearance, and a rainbow around the throne was like an emerald in appearance. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne come flashes of lightning, voices, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burn seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God. Before the throne is something like a sea of glass, like crystal. In the midst of the throne and around the throne are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind. The first living creature is like a lion, the second living creature like a calf, the third living creature has a face like a man's, and the fourth living creature is like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures has six wings, and they are full of eyes all around and within. Day and night they never rest, saying,
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.” Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders will fall down before the one seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever. They will cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

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