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1After this I looked, and there in heaven was an open door. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, ‘Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.’[#4:1 Ex 19:19; 20:18; Ps 47:5; Zch 9:14; Rv 1:10; #4:1 Rv 11:12; #4:1 Gn 12:1; Zch 1:9; Rv 17:1; 21:9]
2Immediately I was in the Spirit, and there was a throne in heaven and someone was seated on it.[#4:2 Ac 19:21; Rm 8:9; 14:17; Eph 2:18,22; 3:5; 6:18; Rv 1:10; 17:3; 21:10; #4:2 1Kg 22:19; Ps 11:4; 103:19; Is 66:1; Mt 5:34; 23:22; Dn 7:9]
3The one seated there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian stone. A rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald surrounded the throne.[#4:3 Other mss omit The one seated; #4:3 Ex 28:17,20; 39:10,13; Ezk 28:13; Rv 21:11,18–20; #4:3 Gn 9:13–17; Ezk 1:28; Rv 10:1]
4Round the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white clothes, with golden crowns on their heads.[#4:4 Mt 19:28; Rv 11:16; 5:8; 19:4; 20:4; #4:4 Rv 3:4,18; #4:4 Zch 6:11; Rv 9:7]
5Flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder came from the throne. Seven fiery torches were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.[#4:5 Ex 19:16; 20:18; Ps 77:18; Rv 8:5; 11:19; 16:18; #4:5 Rv 1:4; 3:1; 5:6]
6Something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal, was also before the throne.[#4:6 Rv 15:2; 21:18,21]
Four living creatures covered with eyes in front and behind were round the throne on each side.
7The first living creature was like a lion; the second living creature was like an ox; the third living creature had a face like a man; and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.[#4:7 Ezk 1:5–28; 10:9–14]
8Each of the four living creatures had six wings; they were covered with eyes around and inside. Day and night they never stop, saying,[#4:8 Is 6:2; #4:8 Rv 7:15; #4:8 Or rest]
9Whenever the living creatures give glory, honour, and thanks to the one seated on the throne, the one who lives for ever and ever,[#4:9 Rv 10:6; 15:7]
10the twenty-four elders fall down before the one seated on the throne and worship the one who lives for ever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne and say,[#4:10 2Ch 20:18; Mk 5:33; Rv 5:8]