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

⁹ I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus. ¹⁰ On the Lord's day I found myself rapt in the Spirit, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet calling, ¹¹ "Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

¹² So I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me; and on turning round I saw seven golden lampstands ¹³ and in the middle of the lampstands One who resembled a human being, with a long robe, and a belt of gold round his breast; ¹⁴ his head and hair were white as wool, white as snow; his eyes flashed like fire, ¹⁵ his feet glowed like burnished bronze, his voice sounded like many waves, ¹⁶ in his right hand he held seven stars, a sharp sword with a double edge issued from his mouth, and his face shone like the sun in full strength.

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man; but he laid his hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and Last, ¹⁸ I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades. ¹⁹ Write down your vision of what is and what is to be hereafter. ²⁰ As for the secret symbol of the seven stars which you have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lamp stands ??the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.