I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.

I know what you have done; your hard work and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, and that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles when they were not, and have found them to be impostors.

Wake up, and strengthen what is left, although it is already on the point of death, for I have found nothing you have done complete in the sight of my God.

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

Then I cried bitterly because no one could be found fit to open the roll or look into it.

In those days men will seek death and never find it. They will want to die, but death will fly from them.

The fruit of your soul's desire is gone, your luxury and splendor have perished, and people will never find them again.

The sound of harpists and musicians, flute-players, and trumpets will never be heard in you again. No craftsman of any kind will ever be found in you again, no sound of the millstone will ever be heard in you again;

and in you was found the blood of prophets, God's people, and all who have been slaughtered on the earth."

Then I saw a great white throne with a being seated on it from whose presence earth and sky fled so far that they could not be found.

Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.

But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted??urderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."