Revelation 4:1 AFTER THIS I LOOKED, AND THERE BEFORE ME WAS A DOOR STANDING OPEN IN HEAVEN. AND THE VOICE I HAD FIRST HEARD SPEAKING TO ME LIKE A TRUMPET SAID, 'COME UP HERE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT MUST TAKE PLACE AFTER THIS.'
Revelation 4:2 AT ONCE I WAS IN THE SPIRIT, AND THERE BEFORE ME WAS A THRONE IN HEAVEN WITH SOMEONE SITTING ON IT.
Revelation 4:3 AND THE ONE WHO SAT THERE HAD THE APPEARANCE OF JASPER AND RUBY. A RAINBOW THAT SHONE LIKE AN EMERALD ENCIRCLED THE THRONE.
Revelation 4:4 SURROUNDING THE THRONE WERE TWENTY-FOUR OTHER THRONES, AND SEATED ON THEM WERE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS. THEY WERE DRESSED IN WHITE AND HAD CROWNS OF GOLD ON THEIR HEADS.
Revelation 4:5 FROM THE THRONE CAME FLASHES OF LIGHTNING, RUMBLINGS AND PEALS OF THUNDER. IN FRONT OF THE THRONE, SEVEN LAMPS WERE BLAZING. THESE ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD.
Revelation 4:6 ALSO IN FRONT OF THE THRONE THERE WAS WHAT LOOKED LIKE A SEA OF GLASS, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL. IN THE CENTER, AROUND THE THRONE, WERE FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND THEY WERE COVERED WITH EYES, IN FRONT AND IN BACK.
Revelation 4:7 THE FIRST LIVING CREATURE WAS LIKE A LION, THE SECOND WAS LIKE AN OX, THE THIRD HAD A FACE LIKE A MAN, THE FOURTH WAS LIKE A FLYING EAGLE.
Revelation 4:8 EACH OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES HAD SIX WINGS AND WAS COVERED WITH EYES ALL AROUND, EVEN UNDER ITS WINGS. DAY AND NIGHT THEY NEVER STOP SAYING: ''HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY,' WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME.'
Revelation 4:9 WHENEVER THE LIVING CREATURES GIVE GLORY, HONOR AND THANKS TO HIM WHO SITS ON THE THRONE AND WHO LIVES FOR EVER AND EVER,
Revelation 4:10 THE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS FALL DOWN BEFORE HIM WHO SITS ON THE THRONE AND WORSHIP HIM WHO LIVES FOR EVER AND EVER. THEY LAY THEIR CROWNS BEFORE THE THRONE AND SAY:
Revelation 4:11 You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.'