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I, John, your brother, who share with you the words of this prophecy
of Jesus and of the kingdom and dominion of God, was on the island
called Patmos on account of the olive trees and waters. And he who
loves us made it known by sending his angel, who bore witness to the
ruler of heaven, even to all that he saw of his God and Father. I was
in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
saying,
-- John. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the faithful witness and
the word! Grace to you, John, and peace from God, because it was,
and is not, and is to come again.
Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on
turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the
lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with
a golden girdle round his breast, and a golden crown on his head.
And his voice was like the sound of many tongues issuing from the
mouth.
-- Now write what you see, what is, and what is to take place
hereafter. Write in a book what you see of Christ and send it to the
seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to
Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea, to the
seven churches that are in Asia, priests to the testimony and to him
who was, and who is, and who is to come. And I will grant my
witnesses power to prophesy.
His head and his hair were white as wool, white as snow. His eyes
were like a fame of white fre, and his face was like the sun shining in
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full strength.
-- Blessed is he who reads aloud the wisdom and words of the
prophecy. And blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is
written therein; for the time is near. Behold, he is coming with the
clouds, and every eye will see the Spirit in the Son, every one who
pierced him and made us a kingdom of pain.
In his right hand, red like jasper and carnelian, he held seven
stars. His feet were like burnished bronze, and his legs like pillars of
fre. When I saw him coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud,
with a rainbow over his head, I fell at his feet as though dead, but he
laid his right hand upon me, saying,
-- Fear not, I am the frst and the last, and the living one. And I
have the keys of Death and Hades for evermore; one is, the other has
not yet come, and when he comes he must remain only a little while.
As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand,
and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the
seven churches and the seven lampstands... the lampstands are the
seven churches, all of whom have fallen.
And I was told,
-- In the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh
angel, you must prophesy about many nations and peoples. Go, take
the scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on
the sea and on the land, to show what must soon take place.
Then I saw him set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on
the land. He had a little scroll open in his hand, and his face was like
the sun. And he called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring, great
and wonderful, and when he called out, the seven thunders sounded.
-- If any one has an ear, let him hear.
I will.
-- Let him who has understanding reckon.
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To the angel of the church in Ephesus write the words of him who
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holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven
golden lampstands:
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches:
To him who conquers I will grant power.
But I know your works, and your toil, and how you cannot bear to
do some of the works you did at frst unless you repent -- for it is the
word of God, the teaching of the Nicolaitans. I hate the works of the
Nicolaitans. Men have tested those who call themselves the apostles,
and found them to be false. Yet you repent! You have grown weary
and are not enduring patiently. You are not bearing up for my name's
sake, and have abandoned the love of Jesus you had at frst.
Remember from what you have fallen, which is in the paradise of
life and on the point of death, and is what some call the deep things of
Satan. Eat of the tree of life. If not, I will come to you and remove
your lampstand from its place, and all the churches shall know that I
am he who searches time.
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And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write the words of the frst
and the last:
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches:
He who conquers shall be tested.
I know the slander of those who you say are the devil and that are
not, but are a synagogue of Jews and tent of kings, those whom I love,
which you hate. I have this against you, and so I reprove and chasten;
for you are either cold or hot unto death. Would that you were
neither cold nor hot! Behold, that they may not be hurt, Satan is
about to throw some of you into prison, and for fve days you will
have tribulation. Here then is a call for your lukewarm endurance --
neither cold nor hot -- and not the pitiable faith and the testimony of
the saints. And do not fear what you are about to suffer. If any one is
to be taken captive, to captivity he goes, but I do not lay upon you any
other burden.
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Be true, and I will give you the crown of Jesus.
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And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write the words of him
who has the sharp two-edged sword:
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches:
To him who conquers I will give my throne; and I will give him
my faith.
But I have a white stone with a new name written on the stone,
the word which no one knows except him who receives it. You have a
few things you hold which are the faith of Balaam, who taught all
tribes and peoples that they might practice immorality then repent.
You also have some there who hold this against you; you have some
who hold fast the hidden teaching even in the days of Antipas, who
hold the word of my witness, my faithful one who was killed among
you, Jesus Christ. If any one slays with the sword, he must be slain
with the sword; so I will come to them soon, and war against you with
the sword of my mouth.
Behold, I am coming soon.
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And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write the words of the
morning star, who has eyes like a fame of fre, and whose feet are like
burnished bronze:
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches:
He who conquers, I will give him power over the nations, even as
I myself received power from my Father. And I will give him another
mighty angel, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron.
But behold those who I will throw into great tribulation, as when
earthen pots are broken in pieces. I know your works, and that your
latter works deny the frst, and I have this against you, that you
practice love with the beguiling woman Jezebel, but repent your
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adultery and throw her on a sickbed, and strike her children dead
unless they repent of her immorality. But she who calls herself a
prophetess, who is teaching my people endurance, refuses to repent of
her doings and keeps my works until the end. Since I gave her my
manna and heart, in her heart and mind she says,
-- A queen I sit; I am no widow of Jesus; mourning I shall never
see.
To the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold the teaching, who
have not learned to tolerate her, to you I say only: hold fast what you
have, until I come; and I will give to each of you as your works
deserve.
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And to the angel of the church in Sardis write the words of him who
has the seven spirits and the seven stars:
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches:
He who conquers shall be clad in white garments, and confess his
name before my Father and before his angels, in the sight of God,
keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed.
Yet I will blot his name and service out of the book of life. I
know your works. I have not found your works perfect. You did not
exceed. You have the name of being alive, and you repent and are
dead. And if you will not awake… if not, I will come like a thief, and
from Jesus Christ, and you will not know at what hour I will come
upon you thus. I will awake, and strengthen what remains. For you
still have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their names in
white garments of God, and they shall walk with me to avenge Jesus,
for they are worthy.
Remember then what you received but have not heard, and keep
that; they did.
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And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the words of the
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