



Produced by Martin Ward









Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Revelation

Third Edition 1913



R. F. Weymouth




Book 66 Revelation

001:001 The revelation given by Jesus Christ, which God granted Him,
        that He might make known to His servants certain events
        which must shortly come to pass:  and He sent His angel
        and communicated it to His servant John.

001:002 This is the John who taught the truth concerning the Word
        of God and the truth told us by Jesus Christ--a faithful
        account of what he had seen.

001:003 Blessed is he who reads and blessed are those who listen to the
        words of this prophecy and lay to heart what is written in it;
        for the time for its fulfillment is now close at hand.

001:004 John sends greetings to the seven Churches in the province of Asia.
        May grace be granted to you, and peace, from Him who is
        and was and evermore will be; and from the seven Spirits
        which are before His throne;

001:005 and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead
        to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth.
        To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with
        His own blood,

001:006 and has formed us into a Kingdom, to be priests to God, His Father--
        to Him be ascribed the glory and the power until the Ages
        of the Ages.  Amen.

001:007 He is coming in the clouds, and every eye will see Him,
        and so will those who pierced Him; and all the nations
        of the earth will gaze on Him and mourn.  Even so.  Amen.

001:008 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "He who is
        and was and evermore will be--the Ruler of all."

001:009 I John, your brother, and a sharer with you in the sorrows
        and Kingship and patient endurance of Jesus, found myself
        in the island of Patmos, on account of the Word of God
        and the truth told us by Jesus.

001:010 In the Spirit I found myself present on the day of the Lord,
        and I heard behind me a loud voice which resembled the blast
        of a trumpet.

001:011 It said, "Write forthwith in a roll an account of what you see,
        and send it to the seven Churches--to Ephesus, Smyrna,
        Pergamum, Thyateira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea."

001:012 I turned to see who it was that was speaking to me; and then
        I saw seven golden lampstands,

001:013 and in the center of the lampstands some One resembling
        the Son of Man, clothed in a robe which reached to His feet,
        and with a girdle of gold across His breast.

001:014 His head and His hair were white, like white wool--as white as snow;
        and His eyes resembled a flame of fire.

001:015 His feet were like silver-bronze, when it is white-hot in a furnace;
        and His voice resembled the sound of many waters.

001:016 In His right hand He held seven stars, and a sharp,
        two-edged sword was seen coming from His mouth; and His glance
        resembled the sun when it is shining with its full strength.

001:017 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as if I were dead.
        But He laid His right hand upon me and said, "Do not be afraid:
        I am the First and the Last, and the ever-living One.

001:018 I died; but I am now alive until the Ages of the Ages,
        and I have the keys of the gates of Death and of Hades!

001:019 Write down therefore the things you have just seen,
        and those which are now taking place, and those which are
        soon to follow:

001:020 the secret meaning of the seven stars which you have seen
        in My right hand, and of the seven lampstands of gold.
        The seven stars are the ministers of the seven Churches,
        and the seven lampstands are the seven Churches.

002:001 "To the minister of the Church in Ephesus write as follows:
        "'This is what He who holds the seven stars in the grasp of His
        right hand says--He who walks to and fro among the seven
        lampstands of gold.

002:002 I know your doings and your toil and patient suffering.
        And I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, but have put
        to the test those who say that they themselves are Apostles
        but are not, and you have found them to be liars.

002:003 And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake
        and have never grown weary.

002:004 Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you
        did at first.

002:005 Be mindful, therefore, of the height from which you have fallen.
        Repent at once, and act as you did at first, or else