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And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, <span class="red">“Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”</span> <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads. <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">Worship of the Creator<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> of God. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: <p class="indent1stline">“Holy, Holy, Holy, <p class="indent2"> is the Lord God Almighty, <p class="indent2"> who was and is and is to come!” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne who lives forever and ever, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying: <p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, <p class="indent2"> to receive glory and honor and power, <p class="indent1"> for You created all things; <p class="indent2"> by Your will they exist and came to be.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>This is the sevenfold Spirit</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. 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