When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. He laid His right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last,

“Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna:

“The First and the Last, the One who was dead and came to life, says:

I know your works—your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance. Your last works are greater than the first.

Then I saw another great and awe-inspiring sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven last plagues, for with them, God’s wrath will be completed.

Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.