After these things I saw; and look, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard - as of a trumpet - speaking with me, saying,
“Come up here and I will show you the things which must happen after these!”
And immediately I came to be in the Spirit, and look, a throne was set in heaven and on the throne one sitting, and he who was sitting, in appearance like a jasper stone and a sardius, and a rainbow surrounded the throne in appearance like an emerald. And around the throne twenty four thrones, and I saw on the thrones twenty four elders sitting, dressed in white clothes and they had golden crowns on their heads. And going out of the throne are lightnings and thunders and sounds, and seven lamps of fire burning in front of the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God, and in front of the throne a glass sea like crystal. And in the middle of the throne and around the throne four animals full of eyes in front and behind.
And the first animal, like a lion, and the second animal like a calf, and the third animal having the face like a man, and the fourth animal like a flying eagle. And the four animals each had respectively six wings around, and within full of eyes, and they have no rest day and night, saying,
“Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, he who was, and he who is and he who is coming.”
And when the animals give glory and honour and thanks to him sitting on the throne, who lives for ever and ever, the twenty four elders fall down in front of him who sits on the throne, and they worship him who lives for ever and ever, and throw down their crowns in front of the throne saying,
“You Lord are worthy to receive the glory and the honour and the power, because you have created all things and through your will they are, and they were created!”
