1. At this point I had another vision and saw an open door in heaven. And the voice that sounded like a trumpet, which I had heard speaking to me before, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this.”
2. At once the Spirit took control of me. There in heaven was a throne with someone sitting on it.
3. His face gleamed like such precious stones as jasper and carnelian, and all round the throne there was a rainbow the colour of an emerald.
4. In a circle round the throne were 24 other thrones, on which were seated 24 elders dressed in white and wearing crowns of gold.