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His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;

He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, [fn] "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.

"To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, "These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, "These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass:

He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come and see." So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.

For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.

I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

He had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand [fn] to heaven

but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.

Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms [fn] of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!"

19 Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant [fn] was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.

And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.

His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.

She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne.

And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,