8. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the One who is, who was, and who is coming, the Almighty.”
9. I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of God’s word and the testimony about Jesus.
10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet
11. saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
12. I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me. When I turned I saw seven gold lampstands,
13. and among the lampstands was One like the Son of Man, dressed in a long robe and with a gold sash wrapped around His chest.
14. His head and hair were white like wool — white as snow — and His eyes like a fiery flame.
15. His feet were like fine bronze as it is fired in a furnace, and His voice like the sound of cascading waters.