nsb - Revelation:1:1-8

nsb@Revelation:1:1 @ THE REVELATION GOD GAVE TO JESUS CHRIST, so that he could tell his servants the things that must soon take place. Christ then sent his angel to communicate the symbolic message to his servant John.

nsb@Revelation:1:2 @ John testified to the word of God, the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all that he saw.

nsb@Revelation:1:3 @ Happy is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and obey the things written in it: for the time is near.

nsb@Revelation:1:4 @ John, to the seven congregations in Asia: May you have grace and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

nsb@Revelation:1:5 @ And from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood.

nsb@Revelation:1:6 @ He made us to be a kingdom of kings and priests to his God and Father. To him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

nsb@Revelation:1:7 @ Behold, he comes with the clouds. Every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn over him. So it will be, Amen.

nsb@Revelation:1:8 @ "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end," says Jehovah God, "the one who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.« (Isaiah strkjv@48:12)