14 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
(M15) These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God: 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and _that_ the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eye‐salve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
1 The Vision of God on the Throne (The Throne During Conflict)
(M16) 1 After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, _a voice_ as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass(106) hereafter.
(M17) 2 Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne; 3 and he that sat _was_ to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and _there was_ a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.
(M18) 4 And round about the throne _were_ four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones _I saw_ four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.
(M19) 5 And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And _there were_ seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
(M20) 6 And before the throne, as it were a sea of glass(107) like unto crystal; and in the midst(108) of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. 7 And the first creature _was_ like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature _was_ like a flying eagle. 8 And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying,