Chapter 4
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After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."
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Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne
003
that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.
004
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
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Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before her throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
006
Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.
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The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a woman, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.
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The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around about and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Domina God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!"
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When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to her who sits on the throne, to her who lives forever and ever,
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the twenty-four elders fall down before her who sits on the throne, and worship her who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,
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"Worthy are you, our Domina and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!"