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Look! He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, including those who pierced Him. And all the families of the earth will mourn over Him. This is certain. Amen.
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"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "the One who is, who was, and who is coming, the Almighty."
John's Vision of the Risen Lord
9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation, kingdom, and perseverance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of God's word and the testimony about Jesus.
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I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
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saying, "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."
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I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me. When I turned I saw seven gold lampstands,
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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.
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His head and hair were white like wool-white as snow, His eyes like a fiery flame,
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His feet like fine bronze fired in a furnace, and His voice like the sound of cascading waters.
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In His right hand He had seven stars; from His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was shining like the sun at midday.
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When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. He laid His right hand on me, and said, "Don't be afraid! I am the First and the Last,