1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John,

1:2  who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

1:3   Blessings will accrue to the person who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which have appeared in it; for the time has drawn near.

1:4   John to the seven churches that locate in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from Him who exists and who did exist and who will exist, and from the seven Spirits who dwell before His throne,

1:5  and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood--

1:6   and He has made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father-- to Him belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1:7   BEHOLD, HE COMES WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it will happen. Amen.

1:8   "I proclaim myself as the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, " who exists and who did exist and who will come, the Almighty."

1:9   I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which we find in Jesus, resided on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

1:10   I found myself in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet,

1:11   saying, " Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."

1:12   Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;

1:13   and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash.

1:14  4His head and His hair appeared white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes resembled a flame of fire.

1:15   His feet looked like burnished bronze, when it has become refined to glow in a furnace, and His voice resembled the sound of many waters.

1:16   In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face resembled the sun shining in its strength.

1:17   When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man And He placed His right hand on me, saying, " Do not fear; I proclaim myself as the first and the last,

1:18   and the living One; and I died, and behold, I live forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

1:19   "Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which take place now, and the things which will take place after these things.

1:20   "As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars symbolize the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands symbolize the seven churches.