Listen!<n id="1" /> I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home<n id="2" /> and share a meal with him, and he with me.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: &#8220;Look! The residence<n id="1" /> of God is among human beings.<n id="2" /> He<n id="3" /> will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">I<n id="1" /> turned to see whose voice was speaking to me,<n id="2" /> and when I did so,<n id="3" /> I saw seven golden lampstands,

<p class="poetry">(Look! I am coming soon,p> <p class="poetry">and my reward is with me to pay<n id="1" /> each one according to what he has done!p>

Therefore,<n id="1" /> repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people<n id="2" /> with the sword of my mouth.

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness,<n id="1" /> and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering,<n id="2" /> unless they repent of her deeds.

But you have a few individuals<n id="1" /> in Sardis who have not stained<n id="2" /> their clothes, and they will walk with me dressed<n id="3" /> in white, because they are worthy.

<p class="bodytext">The angel<n id="1" /> who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

I will grant the one<n id="1" /> who conquers<n id="2" /> permission<n id="3" /> to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered<n id="4" /> and sat down with my Father on his throne.

When<n id="1" /> they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer<n id="2" /> them and kill them.

So<n id="1" /> that huge dragon &#8211; the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world &#8211; was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

they worshiped the dragon because he had given ruling authority<n id="1" /> to the beast, and they worshiped the beast too, saying: &#8220;Who is like the beast?&#8221; and &#8220;Who is able to make war against him?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke to me.<n id="2" /> &#8220;Come,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will show you the condemnation and punishment<n id="3" /> of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those accompanying<n id="1" /> the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">For all the nations<n id="1" /> have fallen<n id="2" /> fromp> <p class="poetry">the wine of her immoral passion,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her,p> <p class="poetry">and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury<n id="2" /> with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After these things I looked, and there was<n id="1" /> a door standing open in heaven!<n id="2" /> And the first voice I had heard speaking to me<n id="3" /> like a trumpet<n id="4" /> said: &#8220;Come up here so that<n id="5" /> I can show you what must happen after these things.&#8221;

So<n id="1" /> I looked<n id="2" /> and here came<n id="3" /> a pale green<n id="4" /> horse! The<n id="5" /> name of the one who rode it<n id="6" /> was Death, and Hades followed right behind.<n id="7" /> They<n id="8" /> were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill its population with the sword,<n id="9" /> famine, and disease,<n id="10" /> and by the wild animals of the earth.p>

Then<n id="1" /> the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak<n id="2" /> to me<n id="3" /> again,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Go and take the open<n id="5" /> scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I looked, and here was<n id="2" /> the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father&#8217;s name written on their foreheads.