Revelation 1:10–20

¹⁰I became in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet, ¹¹saying, What thou seest write in a book, and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. ¹²And I turned back to see the voice which spoke with me; and having turned, I saw seven golden lamps, ¹³and in the midst of the seven lamps one like the Son of man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle: ¹⁴his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire; ¹⁵and his feet like fine brass, as burning in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters; ¹⁶and having in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword going forth; and his countenance as the sun shines in its power. ¹⁷And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, ¹⁸and the living one: and I became dead, and behold, I am living to the ages of ages, and have the keys of death and of hades. ¹⁹Write therefore what thou hast seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to be after these. ²⁰The mystery of the seven stars which thou hast seen on my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. —The seven stars are angels of the seven assemblies; and the seven lamps are seven assemblies.