4:1   After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, " Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things."

4:2  Immediately I found myself in the Spirit; and behold, a throne stood in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.

4:3   And He who sat appeared like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there appeared a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.

4:4   Around the throne stood twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.

4:5   Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder And there appeared seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which symbolized the seven Spirits of God;

4:6  and before the throne appeared something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.

4:7   The first creature looked like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature looked like a flying eagle.

4:8   And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, and appeared full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, " HOLY, HOLY, HOLY do we acknowledge THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO EXISTED AND WHO EXISTS AND WHO WILL COME."

4:9   And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,

4:10   the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

4:11   " Worthy we consider You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and had become created."