When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last,

"To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

"I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God's wrath is finished.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, full of the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. 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.