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Afterthesethings I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the firstvoicewhich I had heard, like the sound of a trumpetspeaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you whatmusttakeplaceafterthesethings."
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Around the throne were twenty-four*thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four*elderssitting, clothed in whitegarments, and goldencrowns on their heads.
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Out from the thronecomeflashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were sevenlamps of fireburningbefore the throne, which are the sevenSpirits of God;
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and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, likecrystal; and in the center and around the throne, fourlivingcreaturesfull of eyes in front and behind.