⁹ I, John, your brother and fellow partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patient endurance that are in Yeshua, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Yeshua. ¹⁰ I was in the Ruach on the Day of the Lord,^[a] and I heard behind me a loud voice like that of a trumpet, ¹¹ saying, “Write what you see in a scroll,^[b] and send it to Messiah’s seven communities—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”