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1After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven; and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”Cross-references: Ex 1:1 · Ex 19:24 · Ex 24:12 · Ex 34:2 · Matt 3:16 · Mark 1:10 · +10 more
2Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throneCross-references: 1Ki 22:19 · Isa 6:1 · Jer 17:12 · Ezek 1:26 · Ezek 1:28 · Ezek 3:12 · +19 more
3that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.Cross-references: Gen 9:13 · Ex 24:10 · Ex 28:18 · Ex 39:11 · Isa 54:9 · Ezek 1:26 · +5 more
4Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.Cross-references: Esth 8:15 · Ps 21:3 · Matt 19:28 · Luke 22:30 · 2Tim 4:8 · Rev 2:10 · +13 more
5Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.Cross-references: Gen 15:7 · Ex 19:16 · Ex 20:18 · Ex 37:23 · 2Chr 4:20 · Ps 18:13 · +15 more
6Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.Cross-references: Ex 38:8 · 1Ki 7:23 · Job 28:17 · Ezek 1:4 · Ezek 10:12 · Ezek 10:14 · +13 more
7The first creature was like a lion, the second creature like a calf, the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.Cross-references: Gen 49:9 · Num 2:2 · Num 23:24 · Num 24:9 · Deut 28:49 · 2Sam 1:23 · +11 more
8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Ex 15:11 · Ps 91:1 · Isa 6:2 · Isa 13:6 · Isa 62:1 · +24 more
9When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,Cross-references: Ex 15:18 · Ps 47:8 · Ps 48:14 · Dan 4:34 · Dan 12:7 · Heb 7:8 · +6 more
10the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,Cross-references: 1Chr 29:11 · 1Chr 29:20 · 2Chr 7:3 · Job 1:20 · Ps 72:11 · Ps 95:6 · +14 more
11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed and were created!”Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · Ex 20:11 · Deut 32:4 · 2Sam 22:4 · 1Chr 16:28 · Neh 9:5 · +23 more
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