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The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

For they are demonic spirits performing signs, who travel to the kings of the whole world to assemble them for the battle on the great day of God, the Almighty.

Enormous hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.

This calls for a mind that has wisdom.

Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes, he must remain for only a little while.

The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they will receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his plan by having one purpose and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.

For all the nations have drunkthe wine of her sexual immorality,which brings wrath.The kings of the earthhave committed sexual immorality with her,and the merchants of the earthhave grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.

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

Pay her back the way she also paid,and double it according to her works.In the cup in which she mixed,mix a double portion for her.

For this reason her plagues will come in just one day—death and grief and famine.She will be burned up with fire,because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.

for in a single hoursuch fabulous wealth was destroyed!

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he called out in a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying high overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

He threw him into the abyss, closed it, and put a seal on it so that he would no longer deceive the nations until the thousand years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.

Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the sea.

Then I saw a great white throne and one seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.