The secret of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from heaven. It fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water.

Shining morning star,

how you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a lightning flash.

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.

To him

and the Living One. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand.