The open secret of the seven stars that you have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lampstands, is this: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from the sky a great star blazing like a torch, and it fell upon one-third of the rivers and the springs of water.

He said to them, "I was looking at Satan failing like a flash of lightning from heaven.

Do not let anybody at all deceive you about this, because that cannot take place until the great revolt occurs and the representative of lawlessness is uncovered, the one who is doomed to destruction,

Now you must know that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

To him

yea, the ever-living One. I once was dead, but now I live forever and ever. I carry the keys of death and the underworld.

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