The seven stars you saw in my right hand have a hidden meaning, and so do the seven golden lampstands. The stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the lampstands you saw are the seven churches.
and in the middle of them I saw someone who looked “like a son of man.” He was dressed in a long robe and he had a gold strip of cloth around his chest.
“Write this to the angel of the church in Ephesus: These are the words of the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.
After this I looked, and I saw that the door to heaven was open. And I heard the voice that I’d heard before, the one that had sounded like a trumpet, saying, “Come up here, and I’ll show you what must happen after this.”