Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.

Then the angel said to me, “Write the following: Blessed are those who are invited to the banquet at the wedding celebration of the Lamb!” He also said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

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

Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).

Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!

His head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame.

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 one of the elders asked me, “These dressed in long white robes – who are they and where have they come from?”

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

Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer –

His eyes are like a fiery flame and there are many diadem crowns on his head. He has a name written that no one knows except himself.

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.

The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.

And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him,

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: ‘Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them.”

Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations were deceived by your magic spells!

“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like polished bronze: