saying: “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches – to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

Now the spirits gathered the kings and their armies to the place that is called Armageddon in Hebrew.

They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it,

Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of – away from the presence of the serpent – for a time, times, and half a time.

If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed by the sword, then by the sword he must be killed. This requires steadfast endurance and faith from the saints.

So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes from the vineyard of the earth and tossed them into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are too, and they will be tormented there day and night forever and ever.

Then a second time the crowd shouted, “Hallelujah!” The smoke rises from her forever and ever.

and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his God and Father – to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen.

And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain of burning fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea became blood,

Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.

Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity.

Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven

and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Now when the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.