启示录 4

天上的敬拜

1 这些事以后，我观看，看见天上有一道门开着。我头一次听见的那好像吹号的声音对我说：“你上这里来，我要把此后必须发生的事指示你。” 2 我立刻被圣灵感动，见有一个宝座安置在天上，有一位坐在宝座上。 3 那坐着的，看来好像碧玉和红宝石；又有彩虹围着宝座，光彩好像绿宝石。 4 宝座的周围又有二十四个座位，上面坐着二十四位长老，身穿白衣，头上戴着金冠冕。 5 有闪电、声音、雷轰从宝座中发出。在宝座前点着七支火炬，就是上帝的七灵。 6 宝座前有一个如同水晶的玻璃海。 宝座的周围，四边有四个活物，遍体前后都长满了眼睛。

7 第一个活物像狮子，第二个像牛犊，第三个的脸像人脸，第四个像飞鹰。 8 四个活物各有六个翅膀，遍体内外都长满了眼睛。他们昼夜不住地说： “圣哉！圣哉！圣哉！ 主—全能的上帝； 昔在、今在、以后永在！”

9 每逢四活物将荣耀、尊贵、感谢归给那坐在宝座上、活到永永远远者的时候， 10 二十四位长老就俯伏敬拜坐在宝座上活到永永远远的那一位，又把他们的冠冕放在宝座前，说： 11 “我们的主，我们的上帝， 你配得荣耀、尊贵、权柄， 因为你创造了万物， 万物因你的旨意被创造而存在。”

REVELATION 4

Worship in Heaven

1 After this, I looked and saw a door that opened into heaven. Then the voice that had spoken to me at first and that sounded like a trumpet said, “Come up here! I will show you what must happen next.” 2 t Right then the Spirit took control of me, and there in heaven I saw a throne and someone sitting on it.

3 The one who was sitting there sparkled like precious stones of jaspert and carnelian.t A rainbow that looked like an emeraldt surrounded the throne.
4 Twenty-four other thrones were in a circle around that throne. And on each of these thrones there was an elder dressed in white clothes and wearing a gold crown. 5 t Flashes of lightning and roars of thunder came out from the throne in the center of the circle. Seven torches, which are the seven spirits of God, were burning in front of the throne.

6 t t Also in front of the throne was something that looked like a glass sea, clear as crystal.
Around the throne in the center were four living creatures covered front and back with eyes. 7 The first creature was like a lion, the second one was like a bull, the third one had the face of a human, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.

8 t Each of the four living creatures had six wings, and their bodies were covered with eyes. Day and night they never stopped singing,
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord,
the all-powerful God,
who was and is
and is coming!”
9 The living creatures kept praising, honoring, and thanking the one who sits on the throne and who lives forever and ever.

10 At the same time the 24 elders knelt down before the one sitting on the throne. And as they worshiped the one who lives forever, they placed their crowns in front of the throne and said,

11  t “Our Lord and God,
you are worthy
to receive glory,
honor, and power.
You created all things,
and by your decision they are
and were created.”