The Heavenly Throne of Adonai

4 After these things I looked, and behold, a door was standing open in heaven.^[a] And the first voice, which I had heard speaking with me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”

² Immediately I was in the Ruach;^[b] and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One seated on the throne. ^{[c] 3} And the One who was seated was like jasper and carnelian in appearance, and a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. ^{[d] 4} Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders dressed in white clothes with golden crowns on their heads. ⁵ And out from the throne come flashes of lightning and rumblings and clashes of thunder^[e]—and seven torches of fire burning before the throne,^[f] which are the seven spirits of God. ⁶ And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, like crystal.

In the middle of the throne and around it were four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind.^[g]

⁷ The first living creature was like a lion,

the second living creature was like an ox,

the third living creature had a face

like a man,

and the fourth living creature was

like a flying eagle.^[h]

⁸ The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes all around and within.^[i] They do not rest day or night, chanting,

⁹ And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, ^{[k] 10} the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever. And they throw their crowns down before the throne, chanting,