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Revelation to bring us the assurance that all these hopes will truly come to pass. God
will prevail; evil will be defeated once and for all. And eternity will be everything we
imagined, and more.
Key verses in Revelation
1: 4 -5 Grace and peace to
you from the one who is, who
always was, and who is still to
come; from the sevenfold Spirit
before his throne; and from Jesus
Christ. . . . All glory to him who
loves us and has freed us from
our sins by shedding his blood
for us.
3:20 “Look! I stand at the door
and knock. If you hear my voice
and open the door, I will come in,
and we will share a meal together
as friends.”
4:11 “You are worthy, O Lord
our God, to receive glory and
honor and power. For you
created all things, and they
exist because you created
what you pleased.”
5:13 And then I heard every
creature in heaven and on earth
and under the earth and in the
sea. They sang: “Blessing and
honor and glory and power
belong to the one sitting on the
throne and to the Lamb forever
and ever.”
Prologue
This is a revelation from* Jesus Christ, which
God gave him to show his servants the events
that must soon* take place. He sent an angel to
present this revelation to his servant John, 2 who
faithfully reported everything he saw. This is his
report of the word of God and the testimony of
Jesus Christ.
3 God blesses the one who reads the words of
this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all
who listen to its message and obey what it says,
for the time is near.
1
John’s Greeting to the Seven Churches
4 This letter is from John to the seven churches
in the province of Asia.*
Grace and peace to you from the one who is,
who always was, and who is still to come; from
the sevenfold Spirit* before his throne; 5 and
from Jesus Christ. He is the faithful witness to
these things, the first to rise from the dead, and
the ruler of all the kings of the world.
All glory to him who loves us and has freed
us from our sins by shedding his blood for us.
6 He has made us a Kingdom of priests for God
his Father. All glory and power to him forever
and ever! Amen.
7
Look! He comes with the clouds of heaven.
And everyone will see him—
even those who pierced him.
1:1a Or of. 1:1b Or suddenly, or quickly. 1:4a Asia was a
Roman province in what is now western Turkey. 1:4b Greek
the seven spirits. 1:8 Greek I am the Alpha and the Omega,
referring to the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet.
1:10 Or in spirit. 1:11 Or on a scroll. 1:13 Or like a son
of man. See Dan 7:13. “Son of Man” is a title Jesus used for
himself.
11:15 There were loud voices
shouting in heaven: “The world has
now become the Kingdom of our
Lord and of his Christ, and he will
reign forever and ever.”
21:1-3 Then I saw a new heaven
and a new earth. . . . I heard a
loud shout from the throne, saying,
“Look, God’s home is now among
his people!”
21: 5 And the one sitting on the
throne said, “Look, I am making
everything new!”
And all the nations of the world
will mourn for him.
Yes! Amen!
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,”* says the Lord God. “I am
the one who is, who always was, and who is still
to come—the Almighty One.”
Vision of the Son of Man
9 I, John, am your brother and your partner in
suffering and in God’s Kingdom and in the patient endurance to which Jesus calls us. I was
exiled to the island of Patmos for preaching the
word of God and for my testimony about Jesus.
10 It was the Lord’s Day, and I was worshiping
in the Spirit.* Suddenly, I heard behind me a
loud voice like a trumpet blast. 11 It said, “Write
in a book* everything you see, and send it to
the seven churches in the cities of Ephesus,
Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
12 When I turned to see who was speaking
to me, I saw seven gold lampstands. 13 And
standing in the middle of the lampstands was
someone like the Son of Man.* He was wearing
a long robe with a gold sash across his chest.
14 His head and his hair were white like wool,
as white as snow. And his eyes were like flames
of fire. 15 His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice thundered like
mighty ocean waves. 16 He held seven stars in his
right hand, and a sharp two-edged sword came
from his mouth. And his face was like the sun
in all its brilliance.
17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were