Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.
They sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders; no one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.
These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they are virgins; these are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from humankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,
and no lie was found on their lips; they are blameless.
Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come; and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, the city that made all the nations drink the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”
A third angel followed them, crying out with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on the forehead or on the hand,
they will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured undiluted into the cup of his anger, and they will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest, day or night, those who worship the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and on the cloud one sat like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to the one who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”
So the one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Then another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vines of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”
The angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.
And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the wine press, as high as a horse’s bridle, for one thousand six hundred stadia.
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