concealed in order that the Church might now be used to display to the powers and authorities in the heavenly realms the innumerable aspects of God's wisdom.

To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.

Man

and there came out of the sanctuary the seven angels who were bringing the seven plagues. The angels were clad in pure, bright linen, and had girdles of gold across their breasts.

The armies in Heaven followed Him--mounted on white horses and clothed in fine linen, white and spotless.

Upon

In his hand he held a small scroll unrolled; and, planting his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

How long

And now in loud voices they cried out, saying, "How long, O Sovereign Lord, the holy One and the true, dost Thou delay judgment and the taking of vengeance upon the inhabitants of the earth for our blood?"

General references

"Tell us, When will these things be? and what will be the sign when all these predictions are on the point of being fulfilled?"