“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star!”

But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice – practices I also hate.

The sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat,

Now when the Lamb opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

Then they told me: “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

This requires the steadfast endurance of the saints – those who obey God’s commandments and hold to their faith in Jesus.

These kings have a single intent, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.

Now when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be released from his prison

(Look! I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy expressed in this book.)

(Look! I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to pay each one according to what he has done!

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a reputation that you are alive, but in reality you are dead.

They were singing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

Now this is what the horses and their riders looked like in my vision: The riders had breastplates that were fiery red, dark blue, and sulfurous yellow in color. The heads of the horses looked like lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths.

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.

So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth. Then ugly and painful sores appeared on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.