1 After these things I looked—and look!—a door opened in the sky, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after these
2 Immediately I came to be in spirit, and look, there was a throne set in heaven (and one sitting on the throne) 3 that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius, and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. 4 And around the throne were 24 thrones, and on the thrones I saw the 24 elders sitting, dressed in white clothes, with gold crowns on their heads. 5 And out of the throne proceed lightnings, and sounds, and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning in front of his throne, which are the seven spirits of God. 6 And in front of the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. And inside the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. 8 The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, Master God, the ruler of all, who was and who is and who is to come!”
9 And whenever the living creatures give glory, and honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever, 10 the 24 elders fall down in front of him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 “You are worthy, our Master and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your desire they existed and were created!”