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第四章

天上的敬拜
1 這些事以後，我觀看，見天上有一道門開着；並且有我第一次聽見的那個好像號筒的聲音，對我說：“你上這裡來！我要把以後必定發生的事指示你。”
2 立刻，我在靈里，就看見有一個寶座，設立在天上，有一位坐在寶座上。
3 那位坐着的，看來好像碧玉和紅寶石，又有彩虹圍繞着寶座，看來好像綠寶石。
4 寶座的周圍有二十四個座位，上面坐着二十四位長老，身穿白衣，頭戴金冠。
5 有閃電、響聲、雷轟從寶座中發出；又有七枝火炬在寶座前點着，這就是　神的七靈。
6 寶座前有一個看來好像水晶的玻璃海。在寶座中間和寶座周圍有四個活物，前後布滿了眼睛。
7 第一個活物像獅子，第二個活物像牛犢，第三個活物的臉面像人，第四個活物像飛鷹。
8 四個活物各有六個翅膀，里外布滿了眼睛。他們晝夜不停地說：“聖哉！聖哉！聖哉！主、全能的　神，昔在、今在、以後永在的那一位。”
9 每逢四個活物把榮耀、尊貴、感謝獻給那坐在寶座上，活到永永遠遠的那一位的時候，
10 二十四位長老就俯伏在坐在寶座上那一位的面前，敬拜那活到永永遠遠的，又把他們的冠冕放在寶座前，說：
11 “主、我們的　神，你是配得榮耀、尊貴、權能的，因為你創造了萬有，萬有都是因着你的旨意而存在，而被造的。”

1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."
2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.
3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne.
4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.
5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
6 Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.
7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.
8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."
9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11 "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."