"Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: `These things saith He that holdeth the seven stars in His right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

"I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING," saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

saying, "I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last," and, "What thou seest, write in a book and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the First and the Last.

I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death.