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Revelation 1

John@johnzebedee

This is what Jesus Christ showed me, through his angel, about what has to happen soon. Whoever reads it out loud is blessed, and so is whoever hears it and keeps it. The time is near.

John@johnzebedee · Patmos

I’m John, your brother, going through the same hard times as you. I’m on the island of Patmos because of God’s word and what I’ve said about Jesus. On the Lord’s day I was caught up in the Spirit, and I heard a loud voice behind me, like a trumpet. It told me to write down what I see and send it to seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.

John@johnzebedee · Patmos

I turned round to see whose voice it was. Seven gold lampstands, and among them someone like a son of man. Hair white as wool, white as snow. Eyes like blazing fire. Feet like bronze glowing in a furnace. A voice like the roar of rushing water. His face like the sun at full strength.

Someone like a son of man. Daniel saw him first, in a dream, coming with the clouds.

Daniel@danielAnd I saw one like a son of man coming with the clouds of heaven. He came to the Ancient of Days, and was given authority, glory and a kingdom. Every nation and language will serve him. His kingdom will never pass away, and never be destroyed.

Replying to @reads.the.scriptures

And hair white as wool. That’s how Daniel described the Ancient of Days on his throne.

Daniel@danielThen thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days sat down. His clothes white as snow, his hair like pure wool. His throne was flames of fire. Thousands upon thousands serving him. The court sat, and the books were opened.
John@johnzebedee · Patmos

I fell at his feet like a dead man. He put his right hand on me and told me not to be afraid.

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Jesus@jesus

I am the First and the Last. The Living One. I was dead, and look, I’m alive for ever and ever. I hold the keys of death and of the place of the dead.

Revelation 2

The church in Ephesus@church.ephesus · Ephesus

We work hard and we don’t give up. And we don’t put up with fakes. People turn up calling themselves apostles, so we test them. Caught a few lying, actually.

John@johnzebedee

His message for Ephesus: he knows all that. But he has this against you. You’ve left the love you had at first. Remember how far you’ve fallen, turn back, and do what you did at the start. If you don’t, he’ll come and take your lampstand away. Whoever wins through, he’ll let them eat from the tree of life in God’s paradise.

The church in Ephesus@church.ephesus · EphesusWe work hard and we don’t give up. And we don’t put up with fakes. People turn up calling themselves apostles, so we test them. Caught a few lying, actually.
John@johnzebedee

For Smyrna: he knows how hard it is for you, and how poor you are. But you’re rich. Don’t be afraid of what you’re about to go through. Some of you will be thrown into prison. Be faithful, even if it costs you your life, and he’ll give you the crown of life.

The church in Smyrna@church.smyrna · Smyrna

Replying to @johnzebedee

Poor, yes. Rich, he says.

The church in Pergamum@church.pergamum · Pergamum

We live where Satan has his throne. Antipas, one of us, was killed here, right among us. We didn’t deny the name.

John@johnzebedee

For Pergamum: he knows where you live. He calls Antipas his faithful witness. But some of you are following Balaam’s old teaching, eating food offered to idols and sleeping around. Turn back.

The church in Pergamum@church.pergamum · PergamumWe live where Satan has his throne. Antipas, one of us, was killed here, right among us. We didn’t deny the name.
John@johnzebedee

For Thyatira: he knows your love, your faith, your service and how you keep going, and you’re doing more now than at the start. But you put up with that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and leads his servants into sleeping around and eating food offered to idols. He’s given her time to turn back. She won’t.

The church in Thyatira@church.thyatira · Thyatira

Replying to @johnzebedee

Not all of us. The rest of us never went along with her teaching, and never learned what they call the deep things of Satan.

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Revelation 3

John@johnzebedee

For Sardis: you’ve got a name for being alive, but you’re dead. Wake up. Strengthen what’s left before it dies too. If you don’t wake up, he’ll come like a thief, and you won’t know what time.

The church in Sardis@church.sardis · Sardis

Replying to @johnzebedee

A few of us haven’t dirtied our clothes. He says we’ll walk with him in white.

John@johnzebedee

For Philadelphia: he’s put an open door in front of you that nobody can shut. He knows you’ve only got a little strength, and you’ve kept his word anyway and not denied his name. He’s coming soon. Hold on to what you’ve got.

The church in Philadelphia@church.philadelphia · Philadelphia

Replying to @johnzebedee

Only a little strength. That’s us. But we haven’t denied his name.

The church in Laodicea@church.laodicea · Laodicea

Not to brag, but we’re rich. We’ve done really well for ourselves. Don’t need a thing.

John@johnzebedee

For Laodicea: you’re neither cold nor hot. Lukewarm. And he’s about to spit you out of his mouth. You say you’re rich and don’t need anything, and you can’t see that you’re miserable, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. Buy gold from him, refined in the fire. White clothes to cover you. Ointment for your eyes, so you can see.

The church in Laodicea@church.laodicea · LaodiceaNot to brag, but we’re rich. We’ve done really well for ourselves. Don’t need a thing.
Jesus@jesus

I correct and discipline the people I love. Look, I’m standing at the door, knocking. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I’ll come in and eat with them, and they with me.

Revelation 4

John@johnzebedee

After that I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven. The trumpet voice again: come up here, and I’ll show you what has to happen next.

John@johnzebedee

A throne in heaven, and someone sitting on it, shining like jasper and carnelian. A rainbow round the throne, green like an emerald. Twenty-four more thrones round it, with twenty-four elders in white, gold crowns on their heads. Lightning and thunder coming from the throne. And in front of it, something like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.

John@johnzebedee

Round the throne, four living creatures, covered in eyes. One like a lion, one like a calf, one with a man’s face, one like an eagle in flight. Six wings each. Day and night they never stop saying it: holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

Isaiah heard the same three words, the year King Uzziah died.

Isaiah@isaiah · The temple, JerusalemThe year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a throne, high up, raised above everything, and the edge of his robe filled the whole temple. Above him were seraphim, fiery angels with six wings each: two over their faces, two over their feet, two for flying. They were calling to each other, “Holy, holy, holy,” and that the whole earth is full of his glory. The doorposts shook. The temple filled with smoke.
John@johnzebedee

And every time they do, the twenty-four elders fall down in front of the one on the throne and throw their crowns down before it: you’re worthy, our Lord and God. You made everything.

Revelation 5

John@johnzebedee

Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one on the throne, sealed with seven seals. An angel shouted: who’s worthy to break the seals and open it? Nobody. Not in heaven, not on earth, not under the earth. And I cried and cried.

John@johnzebedee

Replying to @johnzebedee

One of the elders told me to stop crying. The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has won. He can open it. Then I saw a Lamb, standing in the middle of the throne, looking as if it had been killed.

The Lamb. John the Baptist pointed at him by the Jordan: look, the Lamb of God.

John the Baptist@johnthebaptistJesus is walking this way right now. Look. The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
John@johnzebedee

The Lamb took the scroll, and the creatures and the elders fell down in front of him. They had harps, and gold bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. And they sang a new song: you’re worthy, because you were killed, and with your blood you bought people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.

John@johnzebedee

Then angels. Thousands upon thousands of them, all round the throne, loud: worthy is the Lamb who was killed. Then every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea joined in. The four creatures said amen, and the elders fell down and worshipped.

Revelation 6

John@johnzebedee

The Lamb started opening the seals. With each of the first four, a horse rode out. A white one, its rider out to conquer. A red one, and peace was taken from the earth. A black one, its rider holding scales, and a quart of wheat for a whole day’s wages. A pale one, and its rider’s name was Death.

John@johnzebedee

Fifth seal. Under the altar, the souls of people who’d been killed for God’s word. They were calling out: how long, Lord? Each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little longer.

John@johnzebedee

Sixth seal. A great earthquake. The sun went black, the moon went red, and the stars fell like figs off a tree in a gale. Kings, generals, the rich, slaves and free, all hiding in caves and begging the mountains to fall on them. The great day has come, they said. Who can stand?

Revelation 7

John@johnzebedee

Before anything else was harmed, God’s servants were marked with his seal on their foreheads. I heard the number: 144,000, from all the tribes of Israel.

John@johnzebedee

Then I looked, and there was a crowd nobody could count. From every nation, tribe, people and language, standing in front of the throne and the Lamb. White robes, palm branches in their hands, shouting: salvation belongs to our God, and to the Lamb.

John@johnzebedee

Replying to @johnzebedee

One of the elders asked me who they were and where they’d come from. I said, you’re the one who knows. He said they’re the ones who’ve come out of the great suffering. They’ve washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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Revelation 8

John@johnzebedee

Then the Lamb opened the seventh seal. And heaven went silent. For about half an hour.

John@johnzebedee

Seven angels, seven trumpets, one after another. Hail and fire. Something like a burning mountain thrown into the sea. A star called Wormwood falling on the rivers and turning the water bitter. A third of the sun, moon and stars gone dark. Then smoke out of the Abyss, and locusts. Then four angels let loose at the great river Euphrates, and an army of two hundred million.

Revelation 9

John@johnzebedee

And the people who survived still didn’t turn from their idols, gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which can’t see or hear or walk.

Revelation 10

John@johnzebedee

A mighty angel came down, wrapped in a cloud, a rainbow over his head, one foot on the sea and one on the land. When he shouted, seven thunders spoke. I was about to write down what they said, and a voice from heaven told me not to. Seal it up.

John@johnzebedee

Then I was told to go and take the little scroll from the angel’s hand. He told me to eat it. It’d be sweet in my mouth and bitter in my stomach. It was. Sweet as honey, then my stomach turned.

Revelation 11

John@johnzebedee

The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven: the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.

Revelation 12

John@johnzebedee

Then a great sign in the sky. A woman dressed in the sun, the moon under her feet, a crown of twelve stars on her head, about to give birth. And a huge red dragon, seven heads and ten horns, waiting in front of her to devour the child the moment it was born. She had a son, who’ll rule all the nations, and her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. She fled into the wilderness, to a place God had ready for her.

John@johnzebedee

Then war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought the dragon, and the dragon lost. He was thrown down to the earth: the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world.

The ancient serpent. Last seen in the garden, asking “Did God really say…?”

Moses@moses · EdenEnter the serpent, the craftiest animal God made. Watch how it opens. With a question. Did God really say they can’t eat from any tree in the garden?
John@johnzebedee

Then a loud voice in heaven: the one who accuses our brothers and sisters day and night has been thrown down. They beat him by the blood of the Lamb and by what they said about Jesus, and they didn’t cling to their lives, even facing death.

Revelation 13

John@johnzebedee

A beast came up out of the sea, seven heads and ten horns. Like a leopard, with a bear’s feet and a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave it his power, and the whole world followed it. Who’s like the beast, they said. Then another beast, out of the earth, with two horns like a lamb and a voice like a dragon. It made everyone take a mark on their right hand or their forehead. Without it nobody could buy or sell.

Daniel dreamed of beasts coming up out of the sea too. A lion, a bear, a leopard, and one with ten horns. John’s beast has something of all of them.

Daniel@danielBack in Belshazzar’s first year I had a dream and wrote it down. Four great beasts coming up out of a churning sea. A lion with eagle’s wings. A bear. A leopard with four heads. And a fourth, terrifying, with iron teeth and ten horns.
John@johnzebedee

This takes wisdom. Whoever has insight can work out the number of the beast. It’s a man’s number. 666.

Revelation 14

John@johnzebedee

A voice from heaven told me to write this down: the people who die in the Lord from now on are blessed. Yes, says the Spirit. They’ll rest from their work, and what they’ve done goes with them.

Revelation 15

John@johnzebedee

Beside something like a sea of glass mixed with fire stood the people who’d beaten the beast, holding harps, singing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb: everything you do is great and wonderful, Lord God Almighty. Who won’t fear you? You alone are holy.

Moses@mosesWho’s like you, LORD? Holy and majestic. Fearsome. You do wonders.

Revelation 16

John@johnzebedee

Then seven angels with seven bowls, the last plagues. Sores. The sea turning to blood. The sun scorching people. Darkness. The Euphrates drying up, and the kings of the world gathered at the place called Armageddon. Then a loud voice from the throne: “It is done.”

Jesus@jesus

Look, I’m coming like a thief. Blessed is whoever stays awake and dressed, so they’re not caught naked and ashamed.

Revelation 17

John@johnzebedee

An angel carried me into a wilderness to show me the one he called the great prostitute: a woman sitting on a scarlet beast. Dressed in purple and scarlet, covered in gold and pearls, a gold cup in her hand. Written on her forehead: Babylon the Great. I was completely stunned. The angel asked me why I was so amazed.

Revelation 18

John@johnzebedee

Another angel came down, and the whole earth lit up with his glory. He shouted: Babylon the great has fallen. She’s fallen. Then another voice from heaven: come out of her, my people. She tells herself she sits like a queen, she’s no widow, she’ll never grieve. Her plagues will come in a single day.

John@johnzebedee

A mighty angel picked up a boulder like a huge millstone and threw it into the sea. That’s how Babylon will be thrown down, he said. No more harps or flutes or trumpets heard in you. No craftsmen. No sound of a millstone. No light of a lamp. No voices of a bride and groom.

Revelation 19

John@johnzebedee

Then a roar like a huge crowd, like rushing water, like thunder: Hallelujah! The Lord our God Almighty reigns. The wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has got herself ready.

John@johnzebedee

The angel told me to write: the people invited to the Lamb’s wedding supper are blessed. I fell at his feet to worship him. He told me not to. I’m a servant like you, he said. Worship God.

John@johnzebedee

Heaven standing open, and a white horse. Its rider is called Faithful and True. Eyes like fire, many crowns on his head. His name is the Word of God. Written on his robe and on his thigh: King of kings and Lord of lords.

Revelation 20

John@johnzebedee

An angel came down with the key to the Abyss and a huge chain. He grabbed the dragon, the ancient serpent, the devil, Satan, and locked him away for a thousand years. After that he’s let out for a short time to deceive the nations again, and then the devil is thrown into the lake of fire, for good.

John@johnzebedee

Then a great white throne, and the one sitting on it. Earth and sky fled from him. The dead, great and small, standing in front of the throne. Books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. Everyone was judged by what they had done. Then death itself, and the place of the dead, were thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21

John@johnzebedee

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first ones had gone. And there was no more sea.

Isaiah saw this coming. New heavens, a new earth, and the old ones not even remembered.

Isaiah@isaiahThe LORD is going to create new heavens and a new earth. Nobody will even remember the old ones. No more crying heard in Jerusalem. No more babies who only live a few days. People will build houses and live in them, plant vineyards and eat the grapes themselves. Before they call, he’ll answer.
John@johnzebedee

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, dressed like a bride on her wedding day. And a loud voice from the throne: God’s home is with people now. He’ll live with them. They’ll be his people, and God himself will be with them.

John@johnzebedee

He will wipe every tear from their eyes. No more death. No more mourning. No more crying. No more pain. All of that has gone.

Isaiah again: he’ll swallow up death for ever, and wipe the tears from every face.

Isaiah@isaiahOn this mountain the LORD will throw a feast for every nation. The best meat, the finest aged wine. He’ll swallow up death for ever. He’ll wipe the tears from every face.
John@johnzebedee

The one on the throne said, “I’m making everything new.” Then he told me to write it down, because these words are faithful and true.

John@johnzebedee

He said: it’s done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the A and the Z, the Beginning and the End. Anyone who’s thirsty can drink from the spring of the water of life. Free.

John@johnzebedee

The angel took me up a great high mountain and showed me the city. It shone with God’s glory, like a precious jewel, clear as crystal. Twelve gates, each one a single pearl. The main street pure gold, clear as glass.

John@johnzebedee

I didn’t see a temple in the city. The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. It doesn’t need the sun or the moon either. God’s glory lights it, and the Lamb is its lamp. The gates will never be shut, because there’s no night there.

Revelation 22

John@johnzebedee

Then the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the street. On each side, the tree of life, with fruit every month. Its leaves are for healing the nations. No more curse.

The last time we saw the tree of life, there was a flaming sword guarding the way to it.

Moses@mosesThey’re sent out of the garden. East of Eden, God puts cherubim and a flaming sword that flashes every way, to guard the road to the tree of life.
John@johnzebedee

They’ll see his face.

John@johnzebedee

I, John, heard and saw all this. And I did it again. Fell down at the feet of the angel who’d shown me, to worship him. Same answer: don’t. I’m a servant, like you and the prophets. Worship God.

John@johnzebedeeThe angel told me to write: the people invited to the Lamb’s wedding supper are blessed. I fell at his feet to worship him. He told me not to. I’m a servant like you, he said. Worship God.
Jesus@jesus

Look, I’m coming soon, and I’m bringing my reward with me, to repay everyone for what they’ve done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Jesus@jesus

I, Jesus, sent my angel to tell you all this for the churches. I am the Root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.

John@johnzebedee

The Spirit and the bride say come. Whoever hears, say come. Whoever’s thirsty, come. Whoever wants it, take the water of life. Free.

Jesus@jesus

Yes, I’m coming soon.

John@johnzebedee

Replying to @jesus

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

John@johnzebedee

May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with all God’s people. Amen.

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