Main Idea: The glorious vision and authoritative words of Jesus should bring us to our knees in worship of Him.

• 9–11  I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, “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.”

The Glorious Appearance of Jesus

• 12, 13 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.
  • Daniel 7:13
  • Daniel 10:5
• 14, 15 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
  • Daniel 7:9
  • Daniel 10:6
• 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.
  • Hebrews 4:12, 13
  • Daniel 10:6

The Eternal Authority of Jesus

• 17, 18 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,  and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
  • Romans 6:9
• 19 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.
  • Daniel 7:14
  • Revelation 22:18, 19
• 20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
  • Ephesians 1:22, 23

So What?

• We must worship Christ alone as our glorious savior and eternal king.
  • Revelation 1:17
  • Daniel 7:28
  • Daniel 10:8
  • Revelation 22:8, 9