Revelation 1:10-20

10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet

11saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

12Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me. When I turned I saw seven golden lampstands,

13and among the lampstands was one like the Son of Man, dressed in a robe and with a golden sash wrapped around his chest.

14The hair of his head was white as wool — white as snow  — and his eyes like a fiery flame.

15His feet were like fine bronze as it is fired in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of cascading waters.

16He had seven stars in his right hand; a sharp double-edged sword came from his mouth, and his face was shining like the sun at full strength.

17When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

18and the Living One. I was dead, but look — I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.

19Therefore write what you have seen, what is, and what will take place after this.

20The mystery of the seven stars you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.