Worship in Heaven

1After this I looked, and behold, a door was standing open in heaven! And the voice I had previously heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show yoʋ what must take place after this.”

2Immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold, there was a throne in heaven, with one sitting on the ⁷²throne,

3like jasper and carnelian in appearance. And around the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald.

4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and ⁷³sitting on the thrones were the twenty-four elders. They were clothed in white garments and had golden crowns on their heads.

5From the throne came flashes of lightning, ⁷⁴rumblings, and peals of thunder, and there were seven flaming torches burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.

6Also before the throne was ⁷⁵something like a sea of glass that looked like crystal. Around the throne on each side were four living creatures, full of eyes in front and in back.

7The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature was like a calf, the third living creature had ⁷⁶the face of a man, and the fourth ⁷⁷living creature was like an eagle in flight.

8Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying,
“Holy, holy, ⁷⁸holy,
is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and who is and who is to come.”

9And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

10the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne and say,

11“Yoʋ are worthy, ⁷⁹our Lord and God, the Holy One,
to receive glory, honor, and power;
for yoʋ created all things,
and by yoʋr will they ⁸⁰came into existence and were created.”