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Sen jälkeen minä näin, ja katso: taivaassa oli ovi avoinna, ja ensimmäinen ääni, jonka minä olin kuullut ikäänkuin pasunan puhuvan minulle, sanoi: "Nouse ylös tänne, niin minä näytän sinulle, mitä tämän jälkeen on tapahtuva".

Ja kohta minä olin hengessä. Ja katso, taivaassa oli valtaistuin, ja valtaistuimella oli istuja.

Ja istuja oli näöltänsä jaspis- ja sardionkiven kaltainen; ja valtaistuimen ympärillä oli taivaankaari, näöltänsä smaragdin kaltainen.

Ja valtaistuimen ympärillä oli kaksikymmentä neljä valtaistuinta, ja niillä valtaistuimilla istui kaksikymmentä neljä vanhinta, puettuina valkeihin vaatteisiin, ja heillä oli päässänsä kultaiset kruunut.

Ja valtaistuimesta lähti salamoita ja ääniä ja ukkosen jylinää; ja valtaistuimen edessä paloi seitsemän tulisoihtua, jotka ovat ne seitsemän Jumalan henkeä.

Ja valtaistuimen edessä oli ikäänkuin lasinen meri, kristallin näköinen; ja valtaistuimen keskellä ja valtaistuimen ympärillä oli neljä olentoa, edestä ja takaa silmiä täynnä.

Ja ensimmäinen olento oli leijonan näköinen, ja toinen olento nuoren härän näköinen, ja kolmannella olennolla oli ikäänkuin ihmisen kasvot, ja neljäs olento oli lentävän kotkan näköinen.

Ja niillä neljällä olennolla oli kullakin kuusi siipeä, ja ne olivat yltympäri ja sisältä silmiä täynnä. Ja ne sanoivat lakkaamatta yötä päivää: "Pyhä, pyhä, pyhä on Herra Jumala, Kaikkivaltias, joka oli ja joka on ja joka tuleva on".

Ja niin usein kuin olennot antavat ylistyksen, kunnian ja kiitoksen hänelle, joka valtaistuimella istuu, joka elää aina ja iankaikkisesti,

10 lankeavat ne kaksikymmentä neljä vanhinta hänen eteensä, joka valtaistuimella istuu, ja kumartaen rukoilevat häntä, joka elää aina ja iankaikkisesti, ja heittävät kruununsa valtaistuimen eteen sanoen:

11 "Sinä, meidän Herramme ja meidän Jumalamme, olet arvollinen saamaan ylistyksen ja kunnian ja voiman, sillä sinä olet luonut kaikki, ja sinun tahdostasi ne ovat olemassa ja ovat luodut".

The Throne in Heaven

After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open(A) in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet(B) said, “Come up here,(C) and I will show you what must take place after this.”(D) At once I was in the Spirit,(E) and there before me was a throne in heaven(F) with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper(G) and ruby.(H) A rainbow(I) that shone like an emerald(J) encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders.(K) They were dressed in white(L) and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder.(M) In front of the throne, seven lamps(N) were blazing. These are the seven spirits[a](O) of God. Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass,(P) clear as crystal.

In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures,(Q) and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.(R) The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.(S) Each of the four living creatures(T) had six wings(U) and was covered with eyes all around,(V) even under its wings. Day and night(W) they never stop saying:

“‘Holy, holy, holy

is the Lord God Almighty,’[b](X)

who was, and is, and is to come.”(Y)

Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne(Z) and who lives for ever and ever,(AA) 10 the twenty-four elders(AB) fall down before him(AC) who sits on the throne(AD) and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God,
    to receive glory and honor and power,(AE)
for you created all things,
    and by your will they were created
    and have their being.”(AF)

Footnotes

  1. Revelation 4:5 That is, the sevenfold Spirit
  2. Revelation 4:8 Isaiah 6:3

After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.