After: Rev. 1:1-3:22
a door: Exodus 1:1; Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:21; Acts 7:56, Acts 10:11
the first: Revelation 1:10, Revelation 16:17
and I: Revelation 1:19, Revelation 22:6; John 16:13
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Revelation 4:1
Revelation 4:1
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