¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, ¹¹‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;’ and, ‘What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.’ ¹²And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands, ¹³and in the midst of the seven lamp-stands, one like to a son of man, clothed to the foot, and girt round at the breast with a golden girdle, ¹⁴and his head and hairs white, as if white wool—as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire; ¹⁵and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters, ¹⁶and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance is as the sun shining in its might. ¹⁷And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, ‘Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last, ¹⁸and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

¹⁹‘Write the things that thou hast seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to come after these things; ²⁰the secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lamp-stands that thou hast seen are seven assemblies.

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Revelation 1:17: When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last …”

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