3: 19.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten.
So be zealous, and reform.

Look! I am standing at the door knocking.

If any one hears my voice and opens the door,
I shall come in to him and sup with him,
And he with me.

He who keeps overcoming,

I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne,

As I also overcame,

And sat down with my Father in his throne.

He who has an ear, let him hear

What the Spirit is saying to the Churches.

4: 1.

VISION IN HEAVEN.

(The Throne of God.)

After this I saw,

And lo, a door opened in heaven,

And the first voice which I heard

Was like that of a trumpet talking with me,

And saying:

"Come up here and I will show you

What must happen after this.'

After this I was at once under the influence of the

Spirit,

And, lo, there was a Throne set in heaven,

And One sitting on it,

And he who was sitting on it was, to look at,
Like a jasper stone and a sardius.

And there was a rainbow round the Throne,
Whose appearance was like an emerald.

4: 4.

And round the Throne were twenty-four thrones,

And on the thrones I saw twenty-four Elders

sitting,

Dressed in white clothes,

And on their heads crowns of gold.

And out of the throne were going lightnings,

And voices and thunders.

And seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne,

And these are the Seven Spirits of God:

And before the Throne,

As it were a glassy sea like crystal;

And in the middle of the Throne and around the Throne,

Four Living Creatures full of eyes before and behind.

And the first Creature was like a lion,

And the second Creature like a calf,

And the third Creature had a face like a

man,

And the fourth Creature was like a flying

eagle.

And the four Living Creatures,

Each of which had six wings,

Were full of eyes all around, and within, And they had no rest day and night, Saying:

4: 8.

"Holy, holy, holy,

Lord, the God, the All-Ruler,

The Past, and The Present, and The Coming One."

And when the Living Creatures gave praise and honor and thanks,

To him who was sitting on the throne,

To him who lives forever and ever.

The twenty-four Elders kept falling down before him

Who was sitting on the Throne,

And kept worshipping him

Who lives forever and ever,

And kept throwing their crowns before the Throne, Saying:

"Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God,

To take praise and honor and the power. For thou didst create everything,

And because of thy will they were, and were created."

5:1.

(The Book of Seals.)

And I saw on the right hand of him
Who was sitting on the Throne
A Book written within and on the back,
Close sealed with Seven Seals.
And I saw a strong Angel

Proclaiming in a loud voice:
"Who is worthy to open the book,
And to undo its Seals?"

And no one in heaven, or on the earth,

Or under the earth,

Was able to open the book,

Or to look at it.

And one of the Elders said to me:

"Do not weep.

Look! the Lion of the tribe of Judah,

The Root of David,

Has overcome to open the Book,

And its seven Seals."