7. Behold, he is coming amid the clouds,and every eye will see him,even those who pierced him.All the peoples of the earth will lament him.Yes. Amen.
8. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.”
9. I, John, your brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus.
10. I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet,
11. which said, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
12. Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands