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They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.

Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

And the smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, rose up before God from the hand of the angel.

Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.

When the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to put it in writing. But I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”

Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven.

When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.

And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.

And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.

And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.

The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.

For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.

The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near.