10. On the Lord's day the Spirit took control of me, and behind me I heard a loud voice that sounded like a trumpet.
11. The voice said, “Write in a book what you see. Then send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
12. When I turned to see who was speaking to me, I saw seven gold lampstands.
13. There with the lampstands was someone who seemed to be the Son of Man. He was wearing a robe that reached down to his feet, and a gold cloth was wrapped around his chest.
14. His head and his hair were white as wool or snow, and his eyes looked like flames of fire.