Sequence of Revelation Seals Trumpets and Bowl Plagues

Sequence of Revelation

 

The seventh trumpet and seventh bowl plague are not congruent or simultaneous.

All seals, trumpets and bowl plagues are consecutive and in order.

All seven seals must be opened before the first trumpet can sound.

All seven trumpets must sound before the first bowl plague can be poured out upon the earth.

 

The first and second woes are congruent with the fifth and sixth trumpets.

At the seventh trump the mystery of God is finished in that he now rules over the earth and the dead are judged at the first judgment.

 

The third woe begins with the seventh trump and concludes at the finish of the seventh bowl plague.

 

Those who are alive and remain of Jerusalem are not changed and rewarded until after the seven bowl plagues and third woe are completed.

 

After the seventh bowl plague the wrath of God is complete.

 

The Seven bowl plagues occur after the first judgment of the dead who are rewarded to be priests and kings and being changed to a spiritual body, making them as the angels of heaven. More information about the seven angels is forthcoming in the document which I have titled Mystery of the seven stars in Jesus hand.

All 7 Seals must first be opened before the 7 trumpet judgments can begin. There are false or mistaken teachers who say that the seals, trumpets and bowl plagues are all simultaneous with each other.

Seven trumpets must sound before the seven bowl plagues can begin. The third woe begins with the sounding of the seventh trumpet and concludes with the pouring out of the seventh bowl plague.

5^th 6^th and 7^th trumpet judgments are simultaneous with the three woes.
 

In them the wrath of God is complete upon the earth.

Proof of these statements lie below:

7^th Seal 

Revelation 8:1.  When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2.  And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
 
4^th Trumpet  

Revelation 8:12.  Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened; and a third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night. 13.  And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!''

The three woes coincide with the fifth, sixth and seventh trumpets.

Revelation 8:13…"Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!''

5^th Trumpet 1st Woe  

Revelation 9:1.  Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. And to him was given the key to the bottomless pit.

Revelation 9:3.  Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Revelation 9:11.  And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.12.  One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.

6^th Trumpet 2^nd Woe  

Revelation 9:13.  Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,  14.  saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.''

Revelation 11:3.  "And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.''

Revelation 11:11.  Now after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12.  And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here.'' And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.  13.  In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand men were killed, and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.  14.  The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

7^th Trumpet  3^rd Woe Simultaneous and Congruent

Revelation 10:7.  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.

Revelation 11:14.  The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.  15.  Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!''  16.  And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,  17.  saying: "We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was and who is to come, because You have taken Your great power and reigned.  18.  The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth.''

God’s children are judged and rewarded as they enter into the temple.

Revelation 11:19.  Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.

Revelation 15:1.  Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.  2.  And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.  3.  And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!  4.  Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments have been manifested.''

Seven priests and kings described as angels, a word which also means messengers are seen coming out of the open temple.

Revelation 15: 5.  After these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.  6.  And out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, clothed in pure bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands.  7.  Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.  8.  The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Revelation 1:5.  and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,  6.  and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Strong's Greek Ref. # 32  Romanized  aggelos   Pronounced ang'-el-os   from aggello [probably derived from GSN0071; compare GSN0034] (to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an "angel"; by implication, a pastor: KJV--angel, messenger.

Strong's Hebrew Ref. # 4397  Romanized  mal'ak   Pronounced mal-awk'    from an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher): KJV--ambassador, angel, king, messenger.

Revelation 17:1.  Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,  2.  "with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.''

Revelation 19:10.  And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.''

This changed angel is a fellow servant, brother and witness of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 21:9.  Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.''

This angel is a servant, prophet, brother and guardian of the Word of God.

Revelation 22:8.  Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.  9.  Then he said to me, "See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.''

Revelation 16:12.  Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.  13.  And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14.  For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15.  "Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.''  16.  And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. 

The remnant of Jerusalem live and escape from the beast and all the judgments upon the earth and enter into the temple after the wrath of God is complete.

1 Thessalonians 4:15.  For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.  16.  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  17.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

Isaiah 37:31.  And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.  32.  For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Ezekiel 14:22.  "Yet behold, there shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out, both sons and daughters; surely they will come out to you, and you will see their ways and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, indeed all that I have brought upon it.

Joel 2:31.  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.  32.  And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the remnant whom the Lord calls.

Revelation 16:17.  Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!'' 18.  And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.

A full analysis of the book of Revelation is currently in progress.

The Great Mission of the Antichrist to Change Times and Laws

The Great Mission of the Antichrist

While it is common knowledge that the Antichrist wants to be seated on the throne of the Almighty God, most Bible readers have missed the reason why the Antichrist and Satan, the one who inhabits his body, desires to change times and laws and the true definitions of these terms.

Jeremiah 31:35.  Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar (the Lord of hosts is His name):  36.  "If those ordinances depart from before Me,'' says the Lord, "Then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.''  37.  Thus says the Lord: "If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,'' says the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:19.  And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, 20.  Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 21.  Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.  22.  `As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.' ''

At first glance it looks like a challenge to Jeremiah to break the Lord’s covenant with night and day, but a deeper look into the word reveals that a better translation would be:

If can be broken my covenant of the day and night in their season;

The words if and you are not in the original manuscripts of this verse but added to attempt to perform proper English writing.

The Lord even clarifies for any who are confused in Jeremiah 33:25.  Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26.  Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

Genesis 1:14.  Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;  15.  "and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth''; and it was so.  16.  Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.  17.  God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,  18.  and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Now we have seen right before our eyes the challenge that Satan has undertaken to destroy the people of God who have made a covenant with him and seek to do his will. The second part of this mystery is what times and what laws? Many have erred, whether intentionally or foolishly to explain that the word times is defined as dates or set days. The word times is often interchanged with seasons:

Hebrew   Strong's Ref. # 6256   Romanized  `eth   Pronounced ayth from HSN5703; time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.:

KJV-- + after, [al-]ways, X certain, + continually, + evening, long, (due) season, so [long] as, [even-, evening-, noon-]tide, ([meal-]), what) time, when.

Aramaic   Strong's Ref. # 2166   Romanized  zman   Pronounced zem-awn'(Aramaic) from HSN2165; the same as HSN2165: KJV--season, time.

The latter Aramaic version leaves no doubt as to its definition and is used in the prophecy of Daniel.

Daniel 7:25.  And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

I believe that we can deduce from scripture that the beast will attempt to change the length of days, nights, and seasons from the God of heaven’s originally ordained statutes. It does not mean that he will change the day of worship for God from Saturday to Sunday. Saturday is the Sabbath and Sunday is the Lord’s Day. In these current days of the great falling away of the faith it is likely that you will be celebrating and honoring these days alone because most in the church are counterfeit, false believers. The Jewish disciples and apostles kept and revered both days. If you worship the Lord in Truth, then either day is good, both are better, and all seven days is best!  As far as the law of doing no work on the seventh day, If you have entered into Jesus, you have entered into his rest which is a future day known as the millennium. The book of Hebrews will clarify this for you.

Hebrews 3:18.  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19.  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4:3.  For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest,'' although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.  4.  For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works'';  5.  and again in this place: "They shall not enter My rest.''  6.  Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,  7.  again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today,'' after such a long time, as it has been said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.'' 8.  For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.  9.  There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.  10.  For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.  11.  Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Revelation 14:13.  Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: `Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.' '' "Yes,'' says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.''

Yet it is good to experience keeping the traditions, feasts and ordinances of the Law given to Israel and God will bless you for it, only beware of those who consider it to be mandatory. What is mandatory is we must obey the commandments set forth by Jesus Christ that he gave to us in the New Testament in order to abide in him and be purified from this corrupted earth. While it is very important to physically rest one day a week, and restrain yourself from trying to get ahead financially, one thing to remember when interpreting scripture is that there is a spiritual meaning lying beneath the surface of all feasts, ordinances and laws which must be discovered through study of the Word and the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 22:37.  Jesus said to him, " `You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38.  "This is the first and great commandment.  39.  "And the second is like it: `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'  40.  "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.''

John 13:34.  "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

John 15:13.  "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

If you love Jesus, you will lay down your life for him and his Word when that time comes.

Recently, scientists stated that the 24 hour day was actually shortened by microseconds after the tragic earthquake which shook Japan and this statement inspired me to recall the scriptures about how the days would be shortened for the elects sake and that their are greater earthquakes mentioned in future prophecy.

So we know that the true God is the only one who has power to change times and seasons as stated by the prophet Daniel and we also know that the antichrist will attempt to change times and laws and may be somewhat successful temporarily for 3.5 years as he persecutes the saints.

Daniel 2:20.  Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.  21.  And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding.  22.  He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.

Psalm 74:12.  For God is my King from of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.  13.  You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea serpent  in the waters.  14.  You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.  15.  You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty rivers.  16.  The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.  17.  You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter.

Isaiah 13:9.  Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and He will destroy its sinners from it.  10.  For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.  11.  "I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.  12.  I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Ezekiel 32:1.  And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,  2.  "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: `You are like a young lion among the nations, and you are like a monster in the seas, bursting forth in your rivers, troubling the waters with your feet, and fouling their rivers.'

Ezekiel 32:7.  When I put out your light, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.  8.  All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you, and bring darkness upon your land,' says the Lord God.

Revelation 8:12.  Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened; and a third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.

What laws will be changed?

Revelation 13:14.  And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.  15.  He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.  16.  And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,  17.  and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.  18.  Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

Daniel 9:27.  Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. and on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.''

Daniel 11:28.  "While returning to his land with great riches, his heart shall be moved against the holy covenant; so he shall do damage and return to his own land.

Daniel 11:36.  "Then the king shall do according to his own will: he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.

Daniel 11:39.  "Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.

Psalm 55:20.  He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has broken his covenant.  21.  The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, But war was in his heart; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.

Isaiah 24:5.  The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant.  6.  Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Daniel 6:5.  Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. 6.  Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. 7.  All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

The book of Esther also shows us some foreshadows of the end days.

Esther 3:8.  And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. 9.  If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

Esther 3:13.  And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

You may interchange Christians with Jews because a true Jew is one who knows the Lord Jesus and he considers many of those who reject him of the Israelite blood line children of their father Satan, the seed of the serpent. and those gentiles who believe in faith are grafted in to the living tree. We being many are one body in Christ. Jew, Israel, gentile, Christian.

The scriptures above give one a pretty good idea about what laws will be changed and enacted in the future days of the beast who will rule for 3.5 years in Jerusalem. There is a secret law being enforced by the serpent seed Nephilim with the aid of technological advancements and medical knowledge of blood types and DNA to eradicate all true believers, pure human and Israelite blood as we speak.

Psalm 10:8 They sit in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places they murder the innocent; Their eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.10:9 He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

Psalm 37:32.  The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to slay him. 33.  The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Psalm 38:12.  Those also who seek my life lay snares for me; Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction, And plan deception all the day long.

We now know that Satan, the devil, or Beelzebub also reads the Bible and considers the words written in Jeremiah to be true as he seeks to destroy the people of God which can only be done by changing covenants of earthly times (seasons) and laws of peoples as promised by our Lord.

The Lord God Almighty has also promised that evil will be defeated and his people will reign with him in his kingdom forever!

Revelation 19:20.  Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.  21.  And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.

Revelation 20:10.  And the devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 19:11.  Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.  12.  His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.  13.  He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.  14.  And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.  15.  Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.  16.  And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

Revelation 21:1.  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.  2.  Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  3.  And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.  4.  "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying; and there shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.''  5.  Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new.'' And He said to me, "Write, for these words are true and faithful.''  6.  And He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.  7.  "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.  8.  "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.''