Revelation:4

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* After this , I looked and saw a door open in heaven . I heard the same voice that I had heard before . It was like the sound of a horn or trumpet . It said , Come up here . I will show you the things that must happen after this . * Right away , I was in the Spirit . I saw a throne or chief chair in heaven . * The one who sat on the throne looked very fine and bright . He looked like fine stones called jasper and carnelian . All around his chair was a rainbow that looked like a fine stone called emerald . * Around his throne I saw twenty-four other thrones . On them sat twenty-four leaders . They wore white clothes and had gold crowns on their heads . * From the throne came lightning , loud noises , and thunder . In front of the throne , seven bright lamps were burning . These lamps are the seven Spirits of God . * In front of the throne , it was like a sea of glass . It looked like a stone called crystal . Around the throne on the four sides of it were four living beings . They had many eyes in their faces and in their back . * The first living thing was like a lion . The second one was like a young cow . The third one had the face of a man . The fourth one was like a flying eagle . * Each of the four living beings had six wings . They had many eyes all over their bodies and under their wings . They say all the time , day and night : Holy , holy , holy is the Lord God . He has all power . He always has lived . He lives now . And he always will live . * The living beings give praise and honour and thanks to the one who sits on the throne and lives for ever and ever . * Every time they do this , the twenty-four leaders kneel down in front of the one who sits on the throne . And they worship the one who lives for ever and ever . They take the crowns off their heads and lay them down in front of his throne . * They say : Our Lord and God , it is right for you to have praise and honour and power . You made all things . They were made and have life because you wanted them .

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