Revelation

天上的敬拜

1此后，我观看，见天上有门开了。我初次听见好像吹号的声音，对我说：「你上到这里来，我要将以后必成的事指示你。」

2我立刻被圣灵感动，见有一个宝座安置在天上，又有一位坐在宝座上。

3看那坐着的，好像碧玉和红宝石；又有虹围着宝座，好像绿宝石。

4宝座的周围又有二十四个座位；其上坐着二十四位长老，身穿白衣，头上戴着金冠冕。

5有闪电、声音、雷轰从宝座中发出；又有七盏火灯在宝座前点着；这七灯就是 神的七灵。

6宝座前好像一个玻璃海，如同水晶。 宝座中和宝座周围有四个活物，前后遍体都满了眼睛。

7第一个活物像狮子，第二个像牛犊，第三个脸面像人，第四个像飞鹰。

8四活物各有六个翅膀，遍体内外都满了眼睛。他们昼夜不住地说：圣哉！圣哉！圣哉！ 主 神是昔在、今在、 以后永在的全能者。

9每逢四活物将荣耀、尊贵、感谢归给那坐在宝座上、活到永永远远者的时候，

10那二十四位长老就俯伏在坐宝座的面前敬拜那活到永永远远的，又把他们的冠冕放在宝座前，说：

11我们的主，我们的 神， 你是配得荣耀、尊贵、权柄的； 因为你创造了万物， 并且万物是因你的旨意被创造而有的。

The Throne in Heaven

1After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

2At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.

3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.

4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.

Worship of the Creator

5From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven spiritsof God.

6And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.

7The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.

8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy,is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

9And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

10the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

11“Worthy are You, our Lord and God,to receive glory and honor and power,for You created all things;by Your will they exist and were created.”