Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.’

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.

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 sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,

Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.

He performed momentous signs, even making fire come down from heaven in front of people

Then the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out of the winepress up to the height of horses’ bridles for a distance of almost two hundred miles.

Finally the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying: “It is done!”

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”

The beast that was, and is not, is himself an eighth king and yet is one of the seven, and is going to destruction.

(Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!)