1 After this I looked, and there in heaven was a door that had been opened; and the first voice I had heard, like a trumpet talking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what has to happen after these things."
2 And at once I was in the Spirit; and look, a throne stood in heaven, and someone was sitting on the throne.
3 And the One seated was to look at like a stone of jasper and sardius, and encircling the throne was a rainbow that looked like emerald.
4 Round about the throne there were twenty-four thrones, and on those thrones I saw the twenty-four elders sitting, wrapped in white garments; and on their heads they had crowns of gold.
5 Out of the throne come lightnings and thunders and voices; and seven lamps of fire are burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.
6 And before the throne there was a glassy sea resembling crystal. And in the middle of the throne and all around it were four living creatures, full of eyes front and back.
7 The first living creature resembled a lion, the second resembled a young bull, the third had a face like that of a man, and the fourth resembled an eagle in flight.
8 And the four living creatures, every one of them, had six wings apiece, and were full of eyes all around and within; and day and night they have no rest, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming."
9 And each time the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the One sitting on the throne, the One who lives forever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders fall down in front of the One sitting on the throne and worship the One who lives forever and ever, and they throw down their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 "Worthy are you, Lord, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and on account of your will they exist and were created."