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¹THE Revelation of Jesus Messiah, which God gave to him to show to his servants those things which must soon come to pass; he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John, ²Who bore record of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Messiah and of all things that he saw. ³Blessed is he who reads and they who listen to the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is at hand.

⁴John to the 7 churches which are in Asia: Grace be to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the 7 Spirits which are before his throne; ⁵And from Jesus Messiah, who is the faithful witness, and the first to arise from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, ⁶And has made us a spiritual kingdom to God and his Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. ⁷Look he will come with the clouds; and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him; and all the relatives of the earth will wail over him. Even so, Amen. ⁸I am Aleph and Tau, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

⁹I, John, your brother and companion in suffering and in the hope of Jesus Messiah, was in the island which is called Patmos because of the word of God and because of the testimony of Jesus Messiah. ¹⁰The Spirit of prophecy came on me on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, like a trumpet, saying, ¹¹What you see, write in a book and send it to the 7 churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. ¹²And I turned to see the voice that spoke to me. And as I turned, I saw 7 golden candlesticks, ¹³And in the middle of the 7 candlesticks one resembling the Son of man, wearing a long vestment and girded round his breast with a golden belt. ¹⁴His head and his hair were white as wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; ¹⁵And his feet were like the fine brass of Lebanon, as though they were burned in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters. ¹⁶And he had in his right hand 7 stars; and out of his mouth came a sharp 2-edged sword; and his countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. ¹⁷And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying, Do not fear; I am the first and the last; ¹⁸I am he who lives, and was dead; and look, I am alive forever. Amen. And I have the keys of death and of Sheol. ¹⁹Write, therefore, the things which you have seen and the things which are and the things which will be hereafter, ²⁰The mystery of the 7 stars which you saw in my right hand, and the 7 golden candlesticks. The 7 stars are the angels of the 7 churches and the 7 candlesticks are the 7 churches.