"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: " 'He who holds the seven stars in his right hand and goes about among the seven gold lampstands speaks thus:

When he broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Then they said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings!"

His tail swept away one third of the stars of heaven and flung them down upon the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth to a child in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.

I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books about what they had done.

He measured the wall and it was about 144 cubits (216 feet), as men measure, for that was the way the angel measured.