Revelation 1:7-12

71Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and 2every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will 3mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.

8“I am 4the Alpha and the Omega,” says the 5Lord God, “6who is and who was and who 7is to come, the Almighty.”

98I, John, your 9brother and 10fellow partaker in the tribulation and 11kingdom and 1213perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos 14because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10I was 1516in the Spirit on 17the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice 18like the sound of a trumpet, 11saying, “19Write in a 20book what you see, and send it to the 21seven churches: to 22Ephesus and to 23Smyrna and to 24Pergamum and to 25Thyatira and to 26Sardis and to 27Philadelphia and to 28Laodicea.”

12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw 29seven golden lampstands;