Revelation 4

After these things I looked and behold, a door opened in heaven and the first voice like a trumpet that I had heard speaking with me saying, “Come up here and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

Immediately I was in the Spirit and behold, a throne was appearing in heaven, and on the throne one sitting.

And the one sitting {was} like in appearance to a jasper stone and to a carnelian, and a rainbow {was} around the throne, like in appearance to an emerald. \*

And around the throne {were} 24 thrones, and sitting on the thrones {were} 24 elders dressed in white garments, and on their heads {were} golden crowns.

And from the throne come out lightnings and sounds and thunders, and seven lamps of fire burn before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. \*

And before the throne {was} as a glass sea, like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne {were} four living creatures, being full of eyes before and behind. \*

And the first living creature {was} like a lion, and the second living creature {was} like a calf, and the third living creature having a face as of a man, and the fourth living creature {was} like a flying eagle.

And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings apiece, being full of eyes around and underneath, indeed do not have rest night and day, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Ruler of All, the one having been and the one being and the one coming.” \*

And whenever the living creatures will give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne, the one living to the ages of the ages,

the 24 elders will fall before the one sitting on the throne and worship the one living to the ages of the ages, and they will lay their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” \*