1 After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.” 2 And at once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it. 3 He looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne. 4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads. 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven spirits of God. 6 And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had the face of a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight. 8 And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” 9 And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”
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Referencias cruzadas (11)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Apocalipsis 11:12; Éxodo 24:12; Apocalipsis 1:19; Apocalipsis 1:10; Marcos 1:10
- 2 Apocalipsis 1:10; 1 Reyes 22:19; Isaías 6:1; Ezequiel 3:12–14; Ezequiel 1:26
- 3 Ezequiel 1:28; Apocalipsis 21:11; Génesis 9:13–16; Apocalipsis 10:1; Ezequiel 28:13
- 4 Mateo 19:28; Apocalipsis 11:16; Apocalipsis 4:10; Apocalipsis 7:11; Apocalipsis 20:4
- 5 Apocalipsis 11:19; Apocalipsis 8:5; Apocalipsis 1:4; Apocalipsis 5:6; Apocalipsis 16:17–18
- 6 Apocalipsis 15:2; Apocalipsis 5:6; Apocalipsis 4:8–9; Apocalipsis 14:3; Ezequiel 10:12
- 7 Ezequiel 10:14; Ezequiel 1:10; Ezequiel 10:21; Ezequiel 1:8; Apocalipsis 4:6
- 8 Isaías 6:2–13; Apocalipsis 1:8; Hebreos 13:8; Apocalipsis 4:6; Éxodo 15:11
- 9 Apocalipsis 5:13–14; Apocalipsis 7:11–12; Apocalipsis 10:6; Apocalipsis 15:7; Salmo 47:8
- 10 Apocalipsis 5:8; Salmo 95:6; Apocalipsis 19:4; Apocalipsis 11:16; 1 Crónicas 29:11–16
- 11 Colosenses 1:16–17; Apocalipsis 5:12; Isaías 40:28; Proverbios 16:4; Juan 1:1–3
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For, [as the Scripture] says, "The first living creature was like a lion," symbolizing His effectual working, His leadership, and royal power; the second [living creature] was like a calf, signifying [His] sacrificial and sacerdotal order; but "the third had, as it were, the face as of a man,"--an evident description of His advent as a human being; "the fourth …