4 2:18And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things says the Son of God, he that has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brass, 2:19I know your works and love and faith and service and your patience, and your last works more than the first. 2:20But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols. 2:21And I gave her time to change her mind, and she will not change her mind from her fornication. 2:22Behold, I will cast her on a [sick] bed, and those committing adultery with her into great affliction, unless they change their minds from her works. 2:23And her children will I kill with pestilence, and all the churches shall know that I am he that searches the minds and hearts, and I will give you each one according to your works. 2:24But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira who have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden; 2:25but what you have, hold fast till I come. 2:26And to him that conquers and keeps my works till the end, I will give power over the nations, 2:27and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and crush them like earthen vessels, as I also have received of my Father, 2:28and I will give him the star of the morning. 2:29Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
5 3:1And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things says he that has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, I know your works, that you have a name to live, and are dead. 3:2Be watchful, confirm the rest who are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God. 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and watch, and change your minds. If therefore you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you. 3:4But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 3:5He that conquers shall be clothed in white robes, and I will not obliterate his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. 3:6Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
6 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy One, the True, he that has the key of David, he that opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open, 3:8I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened door, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name. 3:9Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but lie, behold, I will make them come and worship at your feet, and they shall know that I have loved you. 3:10Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is to come on all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth. 3:11I come quickly; keep what you have, that no man may take your crown. 3:12Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out of it no more, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name. 3:13Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
7 3:14And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, 3:15I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. 3:16Because therefore you are warm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth. 3:17For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked. 3:18I advise you to buy of me gold purified in the fire that you may be rich, and white robes that you may put on, and the shame of your nakedness not appear, and an eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you may see. 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore and change your minds. 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one shall hear my voice and open the door, I will enter in to him, and feast with him, and he with me. 3:21To him that conquers will I give to sit down with me on my throne, as I conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. 3:22Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
CHAPTER III.
THE HEAVENLY WORLD, THE THRONE OF GOD AND HIS COURT—THE ELDERS, CHERUBS, SEALED BOOK, LAMB, ETC.
1 4:1AFTER this I saw, and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was of a trumpet speaking to me, saying, Come up hither, and I will show you things that must occur hereafter. 4:2And immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 4:3And he that sat was like a jasper and sardine stone, and there was an iris about the throne, similar in appearance to an emerald. 4:4And about the throne were twenty-four thrones; and on the thrones twenty-four elders sitting clothed in white robes, and having crowns of gold on their heads.
2 4:5And there proceeded from the throne lightnings and voices and thunders; and seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God, 4:6and before the throne was as it were a sea of glass like crystal; and in the midst of the throne and about the throne were four living ones [cherubs] full of eyes before and behind. 4:7And the first cherub was like a lion, and the second cherub like a bullock, and the third cherub had the face of a man, and the fourth cherub was like a flying eagle.
3 4:8And the four cherubs had each six wings apiece. And they were full of eyes around and within, and they had no rest day nor night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty the Was and the Is and the Is to come. 4:9And when the cherubs gave glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne who lives forever and ever, 4:10the twenty-four elders fell down on their faces before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before his throne, saying, 4:11Thou art worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things, and on account of thy will they are and were created.
4 5:1And I saw at the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. 5:2And I saw a mighty angel proclaim with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seven seals? 5:3And no one in heaven above, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, could open the book, or look in it. 5:4And I wept much because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it. 5:5And one of the elders said to me, Weep not; behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered, he is opening the book and its seven seals.