When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, *Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't write them.*
All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, *Read this, please;* and he says, *I can't, for it is sealed:*
The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
saying, *What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.*
The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, *Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.*