Twentieth_Century(i)
10 I fell into a trance on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like the blast of a trumpet.
11 It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.'
12 I turned to see what voice it was that spoke to me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lamps,
13 and in the midst of the lamps one 'like a man, in a robe reaching to his feet,' and with a golden girdle across his breast.
14 'The hair of his head was as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like flaming fire;
15 and his feet were like brass' as when molten in a furnace; 'his voice was like the sound of many streams,'
16 in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like 'the sun in the fulness of its power.'
17 And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. He laid his hand on me and said-- 'Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
18 the Everliving. I died, and I am alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of the Grave and of the Place of the Dead.
19 Therefore write of what you have seen and of what is happening now and of what is about to take place--
20 the mystic meaning of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. The seven stars are the Angels of the seven Churches, and the seven lamps are the seven Churches.