And after they were warned of God in a dream that they should not go again to Herod, they returned into their own country another way.

Yea the shine and glister that lightened round about, was like a rainbow, which in a rainy day appeareth in the clouds. Even so was the similitude, wherein the glory of the LORD appeared. When I saw it, I fell upon my face, and hearkened unto the voice of him that spake.

which appearing, when the time is come, he shall show that is blessed and mighty only, King of Kings, and Lord of lords,

looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ:

I testify therefore before God, and before the Lord Jesus Christ, which shall judge quick and dead at his appearing in his kingdom:

that thou keep the commandment, and be without spot and unrebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

O that thou wouldest cleave the heaven in sunder, and come down: that the mountains might melt away at thy presence,

and then shall that wicked be uttered, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the appearance of his coming,

which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great, and notable day of the Lord come.'

This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.

But the LORD answered me, and said, "Write the vision plainly upon thy tables, that whoso cometh by, may read it:

but is now declared openly by the appearing of our saviour Jesus Christ, which hath put away death, and hath brought life and immortality unto light through the gospel,

For the earth shall be full of knowledge of the LORD's honour, like as the waters that cover the sea.

When Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Jewry in the time of Herod the king, Behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem,

And without nay, great is that mystery of godliness. God was showed in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen of angels, was preached unto the gentiles, was believed on in earth and received up in glory.

For the grace of God, that bringeth salvation unto all men, hath appeared

Lift up thine eyes round about and see. All these are gathered together and are come unto thee. Thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be ever by thy side.

Thou showedest thy bow openly, like as thou hadst promised with an oath unto the tribes. Selah. Thou didst divide the waters of the earth.

When they saw the star they were marvelously glad;

For Adam was first formed, and then Eve.