Study Desk

Look, I will force those who belong to Satan's synagogue—those liars who say they are Jews but are not—to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.

But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it.

But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David's throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals."

Then I saw a Lamb that looked as if it had been slaughtered, but it was now standing between the throne and the four living beings and among the twenty-four elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the sevenfold Spirit of God that is sent out into every part of the earth.

They were told not to harm the grass or plants or trees, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.

In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!

The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming!

But the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to repent of their evil deeds and turn to God. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk!

When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write. But I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Keep secret what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down."

So I went to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. "Yes, take it and eat it," he said. "It will be sweet as honey in your mouth, but it will turn sour in your stomach!"

So I took the small scroll from the hand of the angel, and I ate it! It was sweet in my mouth, but when I swallowed it, it turned sour in my stomach.

But do not measure the outer courtyard, for it has been turned over to the nations. They will trample the holy city for 42 months.

But after three and a half days, God breathed life into them, and they stood up! Terror struck all who were staring at them.

The second terror is past, but look, the third terror is coming quickly.

The nations were filled with wrath, but now the time of your wrath has come. It is time to judge the dead and reward your servants the prophets, as well as your holy people, and all who fear your name, from the least to the greatest. It is time to destroy all who have caused destruction on the earth."

Therefore, rejoice, O heavens! And you who live in the heavens, rejoice! But terror will come on the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time."

But she was given two wings like those of a great eagle so she could fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness. There she would be cared for and protected from the dragon for a time, times, and half a time.

But the earth helped her by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that gushed out from the mouth of the dragon.