He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

Then he will show you a large furnished room upstairs. Make preparations there.”

But Jesus<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;A man once gave a great banquet<n id="2" /> and invited<n id="3" /> many guests.<n id="4" />

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

This mystery is great &#8211; but I am actually<n id="1" /> speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawnedb>.i>&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves<n id="1" /> as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain of burning fire was thrown into the sea. A<n id="2" /> third of the sea became blood,

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice<n id="1" /> is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When<n id="2" /> the river burst against that house,<n id="3" /> it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Besides all this,<n id="1" /> a great chasm<n id="2" /> has been fixed between us,<n id="3" /> so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.&#8217;

And we all agree,<n id="1" /> our religion contains amazing revelation:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He<n id="3" /> was revealed in the flesh,p> <p class="poetry">vindicated by the Spirit,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">seen by angels,p> <p class="poetry">proclaimed among Gentiles,p> <p class="poetry">believed on in the world,p> <p class="poetry">taken up in glory.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven: seven angels who have seven final plagues<n id="2" /> (they are final because in them God&#8217;s anger is completed).p>

Thus<n id="1" /> people<n id="2" /> were scorched by the terrible heat,<n id="3" /> yet<n id="4" /> they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority<n id="5" /> over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.p>

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus.<n id="1" /> I<n id="2" /> was greatly astounded<n id="3" /> when I saw her.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I saw one angel standing in<n id="2" /> the sun, and he shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying high in the sky:<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Come, gather around for the great banquet<n id="4" /> of God,p>

So<n id="1" /> he took me away in the Spirit<n id="2" /> to a huge, majestic mountain<n id="3" /> and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

It has<n id="1" /> a massive, high wall<n id="2" /> with twelve gates,<n id="3" /> with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel<n id="4" /> are written on the gates.<n id="5" />