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Revelation 1

¹This is a revelation by Jesus Christ that God gave to him to show to his servants the things which must happen quickly. He communicated it to his servant John by his angel, ²who gave testimony to whatever he saw of God's message, and the testimony of Jesus Christ. ³The one who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and those who keep the things taht are written are blessed, for the time is near.

⁴John, to the seven churches that are in Asia, "Grace to you and peace from the one who is and who was and who is comping and from the seven spirits that are before his throne ⁵and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To the one who loved us and freed us from our sins by means of his blood, ⁶and made us a kingdom, priests to God and his father, to him be the glory and the power forever, Amen. ⁷Look! He's coming with the clouds,
and every eye will see him
and those also who pierced him,
and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him!
Yes, Amen!!! ⁸I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, the one who is and who was and who is coming, the all powerful.

⁹I, John, your brother and fellow participant in the tribulation and kingdom and patience in Jesus, was on the isle of Patmos because of the message of God and the testimony of Jesus. ¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and I heard a loud voice, like a trumpet, behind me, ¹¹ saying, "Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.

¹²And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me, and when I had turned I saw seven golden lampstands, ¹³ and in the midst of the lampstands there was someone like a human being, dressed with a garment that reached the feet, and clothed around his loins with a golden girdle. ¹⁴Now his head and his hair were which like wool, white as snow, and his eyes were like a burning flame, ¹⁵ and his feet were like bronze that has been refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of lots of [running] water. ¹⁶And he had seven stars in his right hand and a two-edged sword extended out of his mouth and his face was like the sun when it shines in its strength.

¹⁷And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand on me and said, "Don't be afraid!" I am the first and the last, ¹⁸and the one who is alive! But I became dead [died] and now I'm alive foreer and ever and I have the keys of death and the grave. ¹⁹Write what you saw, and those things that are now, and the things that will happen afterward. ²⁰The mystery of the seven stars which you saw at my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the lampstands are the seven churches.

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