Revelation 1:9-20
New King James Version (NKJV)

Vision of the Son of Man
9 I, John,
both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus
Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of
Jesus Christ. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard
behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, “I am the Alpha and
the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see,
write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in
Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to
Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me.
And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in
the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a
garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like
wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;15 His
feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the
sound of many waters; 16 He had in His right hand seven
stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His
countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. 17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.
But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am
the First and the Last. 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive
forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. 19 Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things
which will take place after this. 20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven
golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven
lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.