You are showing patient endurance, and you have borne it for my sake, and have not grown weary.

he will govern them with a scepter of iron and shatter them like earthen jars -- just such authority as I have received from my Father --

and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, just as a fig tree, when shaken by a violent wind, drops its unripe figs.

The sky was swept away just like a scroll that is rolled up; and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.

Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from the sky a great star blazing like a torch, and it fell upon one-third of the rivers and the springs of water.

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,

They have the power to shut up the sky, so that no rain will fall upon the earth as long as they prophesy, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with any plague as often as they please.

Then I heard the angel of the waters say: "You are just in passing such a sentence, you who are and were, you the Holy One.

Blessed and holy is the man who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death will have no power, but they will be priests of God and Christ, and reign with Him the thousand years.

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.