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1: • 1 The Unveiling, the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ [a], which God gave to Him to show His servants what must happen immediately. And Jesus signed the Unveiling, having sent it through His angel to His servant, John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, of all that he saw. • 3 Benefited and enlarged is the one knowing the Unveiling for certain and those who hear the words of the prophecy, watching over to guard the things written inside of it; because the time is near. 4 John, to the seven gatherings of the church that are in the Roman province of Asia: • Grace to you and peace, from Him who is existing and who has always existed and is always continuously and actively coming; and from the seven Spirits who are inside the presence of His throne; • 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first of many just like Himself out from the dead, preeminent over the kings of the earth. • To the one continuously and actively loving us, who releases us out from our sins inside of His blood. 6 who has made us His kingdom, priests to God His Father, to Him be the glory, and the strength of completion into the unfolding of the ages. Let it be so; it is so. • 7 Look and see: He comes now with clouds, and every eye will see Him, including those who pierced Him, and all the races of the earth will strike against Him. Even so, let it be so; it is so. • 8 I am the A and the Z, the Source and the Completion, says the Lord God, the One who is existing and who has existed and who is continuously and actively coming, the One who holds and carries all, the All-Carrying, All-Sustaining One. 9 John, your brother and fellow-sharer inside of the travail and kingdom and steadfastness inside of Jesus: I was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was inside of Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet, 11 saying, “I am the A and the Z, the always first and the always final. Write what you see within a scroll and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. • 12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me and having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands [b). • 13 Inside of the midst of the lampstands, I saw One resembling the Son of man [c], having been enclothed to the feet, and girded about at the chest with a golden sash. • 14 His head and His hairs were white as if wool, white as snow; and His eyes resembled a flame of fire. • 15 His feet were like fine bronze having been refined inside a furnace; and His voice was as the voice of many waters. • 16 He was holding in His right hand seven stars, and an eager two-edged sword was presently being spoken forth out from His mouth. His face was like the sun, shining in its power. 17 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead, but He placed His right hand upon me, saying, • “Do not fear; I am the always first and the always final. • 18 I am the living One, and, although I was dead, look and see, I am living into the unfolding of the ages, • and I possess the keys of death and of hades. 19 Write therefore the things you have seen and that exist, and that are at the very point of becoming with these things. 20 • The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon My right hand and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angel messengers of the seven church assemblies; and the seven lampstands are the seven churches [b). |
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