Revelation 1:20
1:20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this:
The seven stars are the angels
of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
Revelation 8:10
8:10 Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky; it landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
Isaiah 14:12
14:12 Look how you have fallen from the sky,
O shining one, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the ground,
O conqueror of the nations!
Luke 10:18
10:18 So
he said to them, “I saw
Satan fall
like lightning
from heaven.
Luke 10:2
10:2 He
said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest
to send out
workers into his harvest.
Luke 2:3-8
2:3 Everyone
went to his own town
to be registered.
2:4 So
Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth
in Galilee to Judea, to the city
of David called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house
and family line
of David.
2:5 He went
to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him,
and who was expecting a child.
2:6 While
they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.
2:7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth
and laid him in a manger,
because there was no place for them in the inn.
The Shepherds’ Visit
2:8 Now there were shepherds nearby living out in the field, keeping guard over their flock at night.
Luke 2:2
2:2 This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor
of Syria.
Luke 3:1-5
The Ministry of John the Baptist
3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
3:2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
3:3 He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
“The voice of one shouting in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
make his paths straight.
3:5 Every valley will be filled,
and every mountain and hill will be brought low,
and the crooked will be made straight,
and the rough ways will be made smooth,