4Revelation 4

1After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”Select Revelation 4:1

2Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throneSelect Revelation 4:2

3that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.Select Revelation 4:3

4Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.Select Revelation 4:4

5Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.Select Revelation 4:5

6Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.Select Revelation 4:6

7The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.Select Revelation 4:7

8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”Select Revelation 4:8

9When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,Select Revelation 4:9

10the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,Select Revelation 4:10

11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”Select Revelation 4:11