I was about to write down what they said when they spoke, but I heard a voice from heaven tell me, “Seal up what the seven thunders said, and don’t write it down.”
The voice said, “Write what you see on a scroll and send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
Then the voice I’d heard from heaven spoke to me again. It told me, “Go and take the scroll that’s lying open in the hand of the angel who’s standing on the sea and on the land.”