Revelation 1:12 (GNV)

Passage

Then I turned backe to see the voyce, that spake with me: and when I was turned, I sawe seuen golden candlestickes,

Nearby Context

Revelation 1:10 And I was rauished in spirit on the Lordes day, and heard behinde me a great voyce, as it had bene of a trumpet,

Revelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, that first and that last: and that which thou seest, write in a booke, and send it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamus, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis, and vnto Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea.

Revelation 1:12 Then I turned backe to see the voyce, that spake with me: and when I was turned, I sawe seuen golden candlestickes,

Revelation 1:13 And in the middes of the seuen candlestickes, one like vnto the Sonne of man, clothed with a garment downe to the feete, and girded about the pappes with a golden girdle.

Revelation 1:14 His head, and heares were white as white wooll, and as snowe, and his eyes were as a flame of fire,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "turned", "backe", "voyce", "spake", "sawe", "seuen", and "golden". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "turned" and "backe", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "Saying I am Alpha and Omega that..." into verse 13's "And in the middes of the seuen...", so "turned" and "backe" belong inside that flow. In Revelation context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "turned" and "backe" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.