Revelations, Chapter 4

¹ Scene in Heaven, ⁵ The Throne and Worship of the Creator

¹ After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” ² Immediately I was^a Or in spiritin the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. ³ And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a^b Or halorainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. ⁴ Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.	1 Rev 1:12 Rev 1:19 Eze 1:1 Rev 19:11 Rev 1:10 Rev 11:12 Rev 1:19 Rev 22:6 2 Rev 1:10 Ki1 22:19 Isa 6:1 Eze 1:26 Dan 7:9 Rev 4:9 Rev 4:9 3 Rev 21:11 Rev 21:20 Eze 1:28 Rev 10:1 Rev 21:19 4 Rev 4:6 Rev 5:11 Rev 7:11 Rev 11:16 Rev 4:10 Rev 5:6 Rev 5:8 Rev 5:14 Rev 19:4 Mat 19:28 Rev 20:4 Rev 3:18 Rev 4:10
⁵ Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; ⁶ and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the^c Lit middle of the throne and aroundcenter and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. ⁷ The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. ⁸ And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night^d Lit they have no rest, saying,they do not cease to say, “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO^e Or is comingIS TO COME.”	5 Exo 19:16 Rev 8:5 Rev 11:19 Rev 16:18 Exo 25:37 Zec 4:2 Rev 1:4 6 Eze 1:22 Rev 15:2 Rev 21:18 Rev 21:21 Rev 4:4 Eze 1:5 Rev 4:8 Rev 5:6 Rev 6:1 Rev 6:6 Rev 7:11 Rev 14:3 Rev 15:7 Rev 19:4 Eze 1:18 Eze 10:12 7 Eze 1:10 Eze 10:14 8 Eze 1:5 Rev 4:6 Rev 4:9 Rev 5:6 Rev 6:1 Rev 6:6 Rev 7:11 Rev 14:3 Rev 15:7 Rev 19:4 Isa 6:2 Eze 1:18 Eze 10:12 Rev 14:11 Isa 6:3 Rev 1:8 Rev 1:4
⁹ And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,	9 Psa 47:8 Isa 6:1 Rev 4:2 Deu 32:40 Dan 4:34 Dan 12:7 Rev 10:6 Rev 15:7 10 Rev 4:4 Rev 5:8 Rev 5:14 Rev 7:11 Rev 11:16 Rev 19:4 Psa 47:8 Isa 6:1 Rev 4:2 Deu 32:40 Dan 4:34 Dan 12:7 Rev 4:4 Rev 10:6 Rev 15:7
¹¹ “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they^f Lit wereexisted, and were created.”	11 Rev 1:6 Rev 5:12 Act 14:15 Rev 10:6 Rev 14:7

Luke, Chapter 19, verses 11-28

¹¹ Parable of Money Usage, ²⁸ Triumphal Entry

¹¹ While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. ¹² So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return. ¹³ And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten^fminas and said to them, ‘Do business with this^guntil I come back.’ ¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent^ha delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ ¹⁵ When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done. ¹⁶ The first appeared, saying, ‘ⁱMaster, your^jmina has made ten minas more.’ ¹⁷ And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’ ¹⁸ The second came, saying, ‘Your^kmina,^lmaster, has made five minas.’ ¹⁹ And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ ²⁰ Another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief; ²¹ for I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’ ²² He *said to him, ‘^mBy your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? ²³ Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’ ²⁴ Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ ²⁵ And they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas already.’ ²⁶ I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. ²⁷ But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.”

Luk 9:51 Luk 17:20

Mat 25:14-30 Luk 19:12-27

Luk 16:10

Mat 13:12 Mar 4:25 Luk 8:18

Luk 19:14 Mat 22:7 Luk 20:16

²⁸ After He had said these things, He was going on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

Mar 10:32 Luk 9:51


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Catholic lectionary for 17 November 2004

Revelations, Chapter 4

Luke, Chapter 19, verses 11-28