Revelation 1:10-20

10I was in the Ruach on the Day of the Lord, and I heard behind me a loud voice like that of a trumpet,

11saying, “Write what you see in a scroll, and send it to Messiah’s seven communities—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned, I saw seven golden menorot.

13In the midst of the menorot, I saw One like a Son of Man, clothed in a robe down to His feet, with a golden belt wrapped around His chest.

14His head and His hair were white like wool, white like snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire.

15His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of rushing waters.

16In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came forth a sharp, two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at full strength.

17When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid! I am the First and the Last,

18and the One who lives. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever! Moreover, I hold the keys of death and Sheol.

19Therefore write down what you have seen, what is, and what will happen after these things.

20As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden menorot—the seven stars are the angels of Messiah’s seven communities, and the seven menorahs are the seven communities.”