The
Revelation of Jesus Christ
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,
2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus
Christ, even to all that he saw.
3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the
prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the
time is near.
Message
to the Seven Churches
4
John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and
peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from
the seven Spirits who are before His throne,
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--
6 and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and
Father--to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever.
Amen.
7
BEHOLD, HE IS COMING 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 is to be. Amen.
8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God,
"who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
The
Patmos Vision
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I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and
kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island
called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of
Jesus.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me
a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet,
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."
12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And
having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;
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.
14 His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow;
and His eyes were like a flame of fire.
15 His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made
to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many
waters.
16 In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth
came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining
in its strength.
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 be afraid; I
am the first and the last,
18 and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive
forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
19 "Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the
things which are, and the things which will take place after these
things.
20 "As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in
My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars
are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands
are the seven churches.
Art used by permission by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992. Click
here to visit her Revelation Illustrated site.
Astronomers
at the Space Telescope Science Institute unveiled the deepest
portrait of the visible universe ever achieved in this image
released March 9, 2004 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
In this image, blue and green correspond to colors that can be
seen by the human eye, such as hot, young, blue stars and the glow
of Sun-like stars in the disks of galaxies. Red represents
near-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, such as
the red glow of dust-enshrouded galaxies. The image required 800
exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth.
The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between
Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004. |
Art used by permission by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992. Click
here to visit her Revelation Illustrated site.
Art used by permission by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992. Click
here to visit her Revelation Illustrated site.
 
This view of
nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the
cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy-studded
view represents a "deep" core sample of the universe,
cutting across billions of light-years. Credit: NASA, ESA, S.
Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team Located in the constellation
Fornax, the region is below the constellation Orion.
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