Prologue

1The revelation of Yehoshua the Messiah, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that would take place directly.   He made this revelation known by sending his angel*   to his servant John,  2 who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Yehoshua the Messiah, by bearing witness to all that he saw.  3 A person who reads the words of this prophecy to others will be especially blessed, together with those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

Greeting to the Seven Churches

4 Yochanan to the seven assemblies of the dispersed that are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from the one who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,  5 and from Yehoshua the Messiah the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of rulers on earth.

With all acknowledgement of him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood  6 and made us [according to the covenant of the Torah] a kingdom, priests to his God and Father.  To him be glory and dominion forever and ever.  Amen.  7 Be aware! He is coming with the clouds of glory, and every eye will see him,  those even who pierced him, and all peoples of the earth will cry out in the face of the truth upon seeing him.  So it is! The very truth,  Amen.

8 "I am the Aleph and the Tav," says the Lord God of Israel, "who is and who was and who is to come, El Shaddai."

Vision of the Son of Adam

9 I, Yochanan, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Yehoshua, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Yehoshua.  10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 11 saying, "Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven gathered assemblies, to those gathered in Ephesus and to those in Smyrna and to those in Pergamum and to those in Thyatira and to those in Sardis and to to those in Philadelphia and to those in Laodicea."

12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden menorahs, 13 and in the midst of the menorahs one like the Son of Adam, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

I Fell At His Feet As Though Dead

17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. nt . But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid, I am the first and the last, 18 I am the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. 19 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are present and those that are to arise from these.  20  As to what the seven stars that you saw in my right hand represent, and the seven golden menorahs, the seven stars are the angels of the seven gathered assemblies, and the seven menorahs are the seven gathered assemblies themselves.