Revelation 1 - Apocalypse Now
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Revelation 1 (ESV)
1 The revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave him
to show
to his servants
the things that must soon take place.
He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
2 who bore witness
to the word of God
and to the testimony of Jesus Christ,
even to all that he saw.
3 Blessed
is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy,
and blessed are
those who hear,
and who keep
what is written in it,
for the time is near.
4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace
from him who is
and who was
and who is to come,
and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
5 and from Jesus Christ
the faithful witness,
the firstborn of the dead,
and the ruler of kings on earth.
To him
who loves us
and has freed us
from our sins
by his blood
6 and made us
a kingdom,
priests to his God and Father,
to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
7 Behold,
he is coming with the clouds,
and every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him,
and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him.
Even so. Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God,
“who is
and who was
and who is to come,
the Almighty.”
9 I, John,
your brother and partner
in the tribulation
and the kingdom
and the patient endurance
that are in Jesus,
was on the island called Patmos
on account of
the word of God
and the testimony of Jesus.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day,
and I heard
behind me
a loud voice like a trumpet
11 saying,
“Write what you see in a book
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.”
12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me,
and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,
13 and in the midst of the lampstands
one like a son of man,
clothed
with a long robe
and with a golden sash around his chest.
14 The hairs of his head were white,
like white wool,
like snow.
His eyes were like a flame of fire,
15 his feet were like burnished bronze,
refined in a furnace,
and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
16 In his right hand he held seven stars,
from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword,
and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.
17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.
But he laid his right hand on me, saying,