For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

But I hope to see you right away, and we will speak face to face. (1:15) Peace be with you. The friends here greet you. Greet the friends there by name.

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,

When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us.”

Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”

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!

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.