After this I looked and behold a door standing open in heaven.

And the first voice which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said,

Come up here and I will show you what must take place after this.

At once I was in the spirit and behold a throne stood in heaven with one seated on the throne.

And he who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Carnalian,

and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. Around the throne were

24 thrones, and seated on the thrones were 24 elders, clothed in white garments with golden

crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder.

And before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God.

And before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass like crystal.

And around the throne on each side of the throne are four living

creatures, full of eyes in front and behind. The first living creature like a lion, the second

living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth

living creature like an eagle in flight. And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings are full of eyes all around and

within.

And day and night, they never cease to say, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was

and is and is to come.

Revelation chapter 4, verses 1 through 8.

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Thanks be indeed.

I feel like I should have been standing for the reading of the Word of God.

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