Immediately I was under the Spirit's power, and I saw a throne in heaven with One seated on it.

And I saw a mighty angel announcing in a loud voice, "Who deserves to open the book and break its seals?"

Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky upon the earth. To this angel the key to the pit of the abyss was given,

But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works their hands had done, so as to give up worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot either see or hear or move;

Then I stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw a wild beast coming up out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads.

So he carried me away in spiritual rapture to a desert, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet wild beast, covered with blasphemous titles; he had seven heads and ten horns.

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and in a loud voice shouting to all the birds that fly in mid-air: "Come! Gather for God's great banquet,

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

Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it, from whose presence earth and sky fled away, no more to be found.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have a right to the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.