As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, 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 fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

And he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

To him

and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.