Then the doors of God's temple in heaven were thrown open, and inside the temple was seen the chest containing God's covenant, and there followed flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and heavy hail.

In this way is shown the patient endurance of God's people, who always cling to God's commands and their faith in Jesus.

For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by giving up their authority to the wild beast until God's words are carried out.

So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth's vine, and flung them into the wine press of God's wrath,