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For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.'"

When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.

They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.

So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.

But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."

For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.

The woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels.

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down-he who accuses them day and night before our God.

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.

"If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed." Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.

Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

And the smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever. Day and night there will be no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name."

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.