Vision of the Son of Man
9 I, John, your brother and [Phil. 4:14] partner in John 16:33the tribulation and 2 Tim. 2:12the kingdom and ch. 3:10the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos See ver. 2on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 ch. 4:2;[ch. 17:3;21:10;1 Kgs. 18:12;Ezek. 3:12;Matt. 22:43;2 Cor. 12:2] I was in the Spirit Acts 20:7;1 Cor. 16:2on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice ch. 4:1like a trumpet 11 saying, ver. 2, 19"Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."
20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and See ver. 12the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and [Matt. 5:14,15]the seven lampstands are the seven churches.