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Revelation 1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which  aGod gave Him to  bshow to His bond-servants,  cthe things which must soon take place; and He sent and  1communicated it  dby His angel to His bond-servant  eJohn,

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who testified to  athe word of God and to  bthe testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

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 aBlessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and  1heed the things which are written in it;  bfor the time is near.

Message to the Seven Churches

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 aJohn to  bthe seven churches that are in  cAsia:  dGrace to you and peace, from  eHim who is and who was and who  1is to come, and from  fthe seven Spirits who are before His throne,

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and from Jesus Christ,  athe faithful witness, the  bfirstborn of the dead, and the  cruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who  dloves us and released us from our sins  1by His blood--

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and He has made us to be a  akingdom,  apriests to  1 bHis God and Father-- cto Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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 aBEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and  bevery eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will  cmourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.

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"I am  athe Alpha and the Omega," says the  bLord God, cwho is and who was and who  1is to come, the Almighty."

The Patmos Vision

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 aI, John, your  bbrother and  cfellow partaker in the tribulation and  dkingdom and  1 eperseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos  fbecause of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

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I was  1 ain the Spirit on  bthe Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice  clike the sound of a trumpet,

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saying, aWrite in a  1book what you see, and send it to the  bseven churches: to  cEphesus and to  dSmyrna and to  ePergamum and to  fThyatira and to  gSardis and to  hPhiladelphia and to  iLaodicea."

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Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw  aseven golden lampstands;

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and  ain the middle of the lampstands I saw one  blike  1a son of man,  cclothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and  dgirded across His chest with a golden sash.

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His head and His  ahair were white like white wool, like snow; and  bHis eyes were like a flame of fire.

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His  afeet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His  bvoice was like the sound of many waters.

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In His right hand He held  aseven stars, and out of His mouth came a  bsharp two-edged sword; and His  cface was like  dthe sun  1shining in its strength.

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When I saw Him, I  afell at His feet like a dead man. And He  bplaced His right hand on me, saying, cDo not be afraid;  dI am the first and the last,

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and the  aliving One; and I  1 bwas dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have  cthe keys of death and of Hades.

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"Therefore  awrite  bthe things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place  cafter these things.

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"As for the  amystery of the  bseven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the  cseven golden lampstands: the  bseven stars are the angels of  dthe seven churches, and the seven  elampstands are the seven churches.



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