Immediately after this I found myself in a trance, and there stood a throne in heaven with a being seated on it.

Then all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

Then I saw the seven angels who stood before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Then another angel with a gold censer came and stood at the altar, and he was given a great quantity of incense so that he might mingle it with the prayers of all the saints on the altar of gold that stood before the throne.

After three days and a half, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror seized those who saw them.

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.

Then I stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw an animal come up out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, and with ten diadems on its horns, and blasphemous titles on its heads.

for in a single hour this vast wealth has been destroyed!' All navigators and all who travel by sea, sailors and sea-faring men, stood a long way off