Chapter 1

The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him, to make known to his servants the things that must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified them through his angel to his servant John;

who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to whatever he saw.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein; for the time is at hand. Greetings

John to the seven churches that are in Asia: grace be to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who has loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

and made us to be a kingdom, and priests to God his Father---to him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Christ's Coming

Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also who pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall wail over him. Even so. Amen.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty." John Told to Write His Visions

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and patience that are in Jesus, was on the island which is called Patmos, because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

saying, "What thou seest write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea." Vision of the Son of Man

And I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands;

and in the midst of the seven lamp-stands One like a son of man, clothed with a garment reaching to the ankles, and girt about the breasts with a golden girdle.

But his head and his hair were white as white wool, and as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

his feet were like fine brass, as in a glowing furnace, and his voice like the voice of many waters.

And he had in his right hand seven stars. And out of his mouth came forth a sharp two-edged sword; and his countenance was like the sun shining in its power.

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last,

and he who lives; I was dead, and behold, I am living forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of hell.

Write therefore the things that are to come hereafter.

As for the mystery of the seven stars that thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands---the seven stars are the seven angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp-stands are the seven churches."