The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the ripe grain on the head.

Another angel came out of the sanctuary, crying out in a loud voice to the One who was seated on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come, since the harvest of the earth is ripe.”

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

“So the last will be first, and the first last.”

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

[Early on the first day of the week, after He had risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had driven seven demons.

Note this: Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

He exercises all the authority of the first beast on his behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

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