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1 A revelation made by Jesus Christ which God gave him to disclose to his slaves of what must very soon happen. He sent and communicated it by his angel to his slave John,
2 who testifies to what he saw—to the message of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the man who reads this prophecy and those who hear it read and heed what is written in it, for the time is near.
4 John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne,
5 and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood
6 he has made us a kingdom of priests for his God and Father—to him be glory and power forever. Amen.
7 See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over him. So it is to be, Amen.
8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega." says the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the Almighty.
9 I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.
10 On the Lord's day I fell into a trance, and I heard a loud voice like a trumpet behind me
11 say, "Write what you see in a roll and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."