Revelation 4 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Scene in Heaven

1After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”

2At once I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with One seated on the throne.

3And He who sat there appeared like a jasper stone and a sardius stone, and encircling the throne there was a rainbow that looked like emerald.

4Twenty-four thrones surrounded the throne; and seated on these thrones were twenty-four elders dressed in white clothing, with crowns of gold on their heads.

The Throne and Worship of the Creator

5From the throne came flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. Seven lamps of fire were burning in front of the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;

6and in front of the throne there was something like a sea or large expanse of glass, like crystal. In the center and around the throne were four living creatures who were full of eyes in front and behind.

7The first living creature was like a lion, the second creature like a calf (ox), the third creature had the face of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.

8And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes all over and within; and day and night they never stop saying,

“Holy, holy, holy Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.”

9Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,

10the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever; and they throw down their crowns before the throne, saying,

11“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they exist, and were created and brought into being.”