Revelation 1:9-20 - John's Vision Of The Son Of Man

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??o Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

¹² I turned to see whose voice it was that was speaking to me, and when I turned I saw seven gold lampstands, ¹³ and among the lampstands a being like a man, wearing a long robe, with a gold belt around his breast. ¹⁴ His head and hair were as white as white wool, as white as snow; his eyes blazed like fire; ¹⁵ his feet were like bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the noise of mighty waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars; from his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun at noonday.

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he laid his right hand upon me, and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, ¹⁸ the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld. ¹⁹ So write what you have seen, what is now and what is to happen hereafter. ²⁰ The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the guardian angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.