[Instrumental] [Verse] I, John, your brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus. [Chorus] I am the first and the last, the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld. [Instrumental] [Verse] I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet, which said, Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. [Verse] Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest. [Verse] The hair of his head was as white as white wool or as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame. [Verse] His feet were like polished brass refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing water. [Verse] In his right hand he held seven stars. A sharp two-edged sword came out of his mouth, and his face shone like the sun at its brightest. [Verse] When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead. [Verse] He touched me with his right hand and said, Do not be afraid. [Chorus] I am the first and the last, the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld. [Instrumental] [Verse] Write down, therefore, what you have seen, and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards. [Chorus] I am the first and the last, the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld. [Instrumental] [Verse] This is the secret meaning of the seven stars you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. [Instrumental] [End]
