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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.
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The firstcreature was like a lion, and the secondcreaturelike a calf, and the thirdcreaturehad a facelike that of a man, and the fourthcreature was like a flyingeagle.
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And the fourlivingcreatures, eachone of them havingsixwings, are full of eyesaround and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORDGOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME."
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the twenty-four*elders will falldownbefore Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who livesforever and ever, and will cast their crownsbefore the throne, saying,
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"Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receiveglory and honor and power; for You createdallthings, and because of Your will they existed, and were created."