I know about your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. [I know] that you cannot tolerate wicked men and that you have tested those who call themselves apostles, but really are not, and found them to be liars.

Wake up, and strengthen what remains [i.e., those few in the church who were trying to stay faithful], who are about to die. For I have not found [any] of your deeds to be complete before my God.

And I cried bitterly because no one was found who deserved to open the book or to look inside of it.

And in those days people will be looking for death, but they will not find it; and they will want to die, but death will elude them.

They were found not to be liars; [for] they were without just blame.

And every island disappeared and the mountains could not be found.

"The [late summer] fruit that you [i.e., the people of Babylon] longed for is gone from you, and all of your luxurious and glamorous things have vanished from you, never to be found again.

Then a mighty angel picked up a rock the size of a huge millstone and threw it into the ocean, saying, "This is how the great city of Babylon will be violently thrown down and will never be found again.

And the sound of harp-players and musicians and flute-players and trumpet-players will never be heard in you again. And no workers of any trade will be found in you again, and the sound of a [flour] mill [grinding] will never be heard in you again.

And the blood of the prophets and the saints and all [others] who were killed on earth was found in her."

Then I saw a great, white throne and Him who was seated on it [i.e., probably Christ]. Earth and heaven fled from His presence and they were not found anywhere [again].

And if any person's [name] was not found recorded in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Now the city is laid out as a perfect square; its length is the same as its width. So, he measured the city with the stick [and found it to be] fifteen hundred miles each way; its length and width and height all being the same.

And he measured its wall [and found it to be] two hundred and sixteen feet [high], according to human measurements which the angel was using.