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

but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.

After these things I looked, and here was an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.