1 After these things I looked, and behold! A door being opened in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard as a trumpet speaking with me saying "Come up here, and I shall show to you the things which are necessary to happen." After these things2 immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold! A throne fixed in heaven, and He sitting upon the throne.3 And He sitting alike in appearance to a jasper stone, and a sardius, and a rainbow around the throne alike in appearance to emerald,4 and around the throne twenty-four thrones, and upon the thrones twenty-four elders sitting, cloaked in white garments and upon their heads gold crowns.5 And going out from the throne stars and voices and thunders, and seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of Yahweh,6 and before the throne as a sea of glass like crystal. And in the midst of the throne and around the throne four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.7 And the first living creature like a lion, and the second living creature like a young bull, and the third living creature having a face as a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings above, full of eyes all around and within, and they do not have rest, day and night saying "Holy, holy, holy, Prince Yahweh Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming!"9 And whenever the living creatures give honor and dignity and gratitude to Him sitting upon the throne, to He who lives for the eternal ages,10 the twenty-four elders fall before Him sitting upon the throne and they worship He who lives for the eternal ages and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying11 "You are worthy, our Prince and God, to receive honor and dignity and power, because You have created all things and by Your will were they then created!"