<p class="bodytext">I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things,<n id="1" /> and when I heard and saw them,<n id="2" /> I threw myself down<n id="3" /> to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me.

<t /><p class="bodytext">After these things I looked, and there was<n id="1" /> a door standing open in heaven!<n id="2" /> And the first voice I had heard speaking to me<n id="3" /> like a trumpet<n id="4" /> said: &#8220;Come up here so that<n id="5" /> I can show you what must happen after these things.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I heard every creature &#8211; in heaven, on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and all that is in them &#8211; singing:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;To the one seated on the throne and to the Lambp> <p class="poetry">be praise, honor, glory, and ruling power<n id="3" /> forever and ever!&#8221;p>

Then<n id="1" /> the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak<n id="2" /> to me<n id="3" /> again,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Go and take the open<n id="5" /> scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.&#8221;

Then<n id="1" /> I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The salvation and the powerp> <p class="poetry">and the kingdom of our God,p> <p class="poetry">and the ruling authority<n id="2" /> of his Christ,<n id="3" /> have now come,p> <p class="poetry">because the accuser of our brothers and sisters,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who accuses them day and night<n id="5" /> before our God,p> <p class="poetry">has been thrown down.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I heard a voice from heaven say, &#8220;Write this:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Blessed are the dead,p> <p class="poetry">those who die in the Lord from this moment on!&#8217;&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;Yes,&#8221; says the Spirit, &#8220;so they can rest from their hard work,<n id="2" /> because their deeds will follow them.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>