Dear Holy Spirit, our Almighty God, Lord Jesus Christ, teach us to talk well and act wisely. Let us avoid sinful and useless conversations. Help and guide us to speak often for You and of You. Grant that our words and actions may never hurt people of goodwill. May our words always bring consolation to those in sorrow, guidance to those who are confused, light to the ignorant, hope to those who despair, comfort to those who are troubled, and good advice to those in need. Take our lips and make them Yours. Take possession of our mind and make it an instrument of Your goodness, love and a channel of Your truth. We hope to become, that is, one who prefers the kingdom of God. In our human conversations, may we always bring You closer to them and them closer to You. Amen.

You and I will ask and wanted to know, and cross-examine God? In that case, how can God ever blame anyone, since no one can oppose His will? But what right have you and I, a human being, to cross-examine God? The pot has no right to say to the potter: Why did you make me this shape? Surely a potter can do what he/she likes with the clay? It is surely for him/her to decide whether he/she will use a particular lump of clay to make a special pot or an ordinary one? - Romans 9:14-21 - Daniel 9:8-10; 1 Timothy 1:12-16; Ephesians 2:4-6 -

The moment we desire anything too much, we lose God's gift of peace and compassion. Hence, the proud and the covetous are never at peace and satisfy. Whereas, the poor in spirit, the humble person, enjoys a heavenly peace of soul. To set our life in perfection, we must begin from within. True perfection is based on God's word and His grace. With God help, we can gain a self-control far beyond anything dreamed by secular and worldly peoples. It is necessary even in things which are good and holy in themselves.

Therefore, we must look first to our duties and obligations. Any holiness which makes us neglect these, is not from God. As a result, you and I should always pray to God: and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills our heart, mind, thoughts, and grants us: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control and may God blessing be upon us, always. Amen! If it is otherwise, it diminishes our recollection and interior peace, and makes us more subject to impatience, anger, rash judgment and over eagerness brings anxiety, fear and nervousness. Bear in mind: Uncontrolled desires and intentions can makes us fall into grievous sin. - Galatians 5:16-26 - Since the Holy Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Holy Spirit. We must stop being conceited, provocative and envious. Amen!

Besides, everybody likes to follow his/her own way of thinking, and prefers to associate with those who always agree with his/her ideas. Yet, it is foolish for us to think highly of our own opinion and way only. Nobody knows all the answers. The person who is always talking only does not advance much in knowledge. A good listener will always learn more than the one who talks too much. In other words, it is not always necessary to point out the mistakes of others. Even when we know better, we need not always express our opinion. The key word to practice is self-effacing, think highly of others too, and remember to be humble, always. In fact, many discussions are unnecessary and unimportant. So often, too, opinions depends on people's likes or dislikes.

To those who know how to control their tongues for God sake, God's grant the grace of interior peace. It is better not to love our own opinions too much. Be humble enough to seek proper advice when we need it. Do not try to be independent of all other opinions. Different opinions may bring us a broader understanding of ourselves as well as of others. At times we must hold our tongue for the sake of love, peace, because it is always our pride that makes us want to correct people at the slightest opportunity.

Of course, corrections are necessary in many things, but we should not place too much confidence in our own sentiments and opinions. By keeping silent and listening to opinions which do not agree with us in petty matters bring us no harm. It takes a deep humility and a delicate charity/love to act in this way. As a result, think before we speak, and we were never regret our words because spoken words cannot be recalled. It is not always possible to undo the harm caused by thoughtless talk.

Many saints have avoided the company of people whenever possible in order to enjoy a closer union with God. One of them once remarked: 'As often as I have gone among peoples, I returned less a man/woman.' Isn't this true of us when we talk too long and did not think before we speak? It is easier to keep silence altogether than to stop talking when we should. In silence God shall speak to us with less distractions and interruptions. God's words will come in the form of ideas, desires, intentions, and resolutions within our soul. If we must, love and appreciate silence and learn to use it well. Then we will draw closer to God, as He is close to us. Amen! Peace be with you.

Peace/Meek/Silence is truly a virtue and in developing an authentic love, we experiences a deeper wisdom, a broader outlook on everyday life, and a brighter vision of God's nearness and agape love. During human conversations, we were learn more and make fewer mistakes. People will appreciate and respect our judgments more because we think first before speaking. Each time we open our mouth, we should do so for a definite purpose, a good purpose. God's wisdom will take the place of our human folly, and our words will help those who hear us.

According to Apostle/Saint Paul, all promises of God are "Yes" and "Amen" in Christ. "The Son of God, the Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you - I mean Silvanus and Timothy and I - was never Yes and No: with him it was always Yes, and however many the promises God made, the yes to them all is in him. That is why it is 'through him' that we answer Amen to the praise of God. Remember it is God himself who assures us all, and you, of our standing in Christ, and has anointed us, marking us with his seal and giving us the pledge, the Spirit, that we carry in our hearts." - 2 Corinthians 1:18-22 - 

Apostle/Saint Paul's used the metaphor of the temple to express the unity of the new people of God that God is bringing about, through the preaching of the Gospel. The believers and followers of this new race are Jews and Gentiles who formerly were separated by the 'middle wall of separation' and the 'ordinances' that forbade them to mix. Jesus abolished those ordinances in order to create one single New Man in himself out of the two of them and by restoring peace through the cross, to unite them both in a single Body and reconcile them with God.

- Reconciliation of the Jews and the pagans with each other and with God - "Do not forget, then, that was a time when you who were pagans physically, termed the Uncircumcised... "I say, that you had no Christ and were excluded from membership of Israel, aliens with no part in the covenants with their Promise; you were immersed in this world, without hope and without God. But now in Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far apart from us have been brought very close, by the blood of Christ. For he is the peace between us, and has made the two into one and broken down the barrier which used to keep them apart, actually destroying in his own person the hostility caused by the riles and decrees of the Law.

This was to create one single New Man in himself out of the two of them and by restoring peace through the cross, to unite them both in a single Body and reconcile them with God. In his own person he killed the hostility. Later he came to bring the good news of peace, peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near at hand. Through him, both of us have in one Spirit our way to come to the Father. So you are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God's household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being built into a house where God lives, in the Spirit." - Ephesians 2:11-22 -

In a similar way, Apostle/Saint Peter used the word spiritual house to describe baptized Christians as of a new spiritual temple. Once you were not a people at all and now you are the People of God; once you were outside the mercy and now you have been given mercy. - 1 Peter 2:4-10 - The Lord Jesus Christ is the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him; set yourselves close to him so that you too, the holy priesthood that offers the spiritual sacrifices which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God, may be the living stones making a spiritual house. As scripture says: See how I lay in Zion a precious cornerstone that I have chosen and the man who rests his trust on it will not be disappointed. That means that for you who are believers, it is precious; but for unbelievers, the stone rejected by the builders has proved to be the keystone, a stone to stumble over, a rock to bring men down. They stumble over it because they do not believe in the word; it was the fate in store for them. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a people set apart to sing the praises of God who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people at all and now you are the People of God; once you were outside the mercy and now you have been given mercy.

In addition to understanding the Church as the new spiritual temple of God on earth that replaced the temple of Jerusalem, the New Testament alludes to a heavenly temple in whose life the Church participates. Saint Paul and Saint John, both allude to the heavenly temple, can be found, and it is the most developed in the Book of Hebrews and Book of Revelation.

You will see greater things than that. And then Jesus added, 'I tell you most solemnly, you will see heaven laid open and, above the Son of Man, the angels of God ascending and descending.' - John 1:51 - "There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I should have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you, and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too." - John 1:14:2-3 - "The Jerusalem above, however, is free and is our mother, since sacred scripture says: Shout for joy, you barren women who bore no children! Break into shouts of joy and gladness, you who were never in labour. For there are more sons of the forsaken one than sons of the wedded wife. Now you, my brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise, and as at that time the child born in the ordinary way persecuted the child born in the Spirit's way, so also now. Does not sacred scripture say: Drive away that slave-girl and her son; this slave-girl's son is not to share the inheritance with the son of the slave-girl, but of the free-born wife." - Galatians 4:26-31 - "For us, our homeland is in heaven, and from heaven comes the saviour we are waiting for, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body. He will do that by the same power with which he can subdue the whole universe." - Philippians 3:20-21 - 

The author of Hebrews was concerned to demonstrate that Christianity is better than Judaism. Among other things, Christians have a better Covenant, a better Sacrifice, a better High priest, and a better temple/Church. The Temple in Jerusalem was only a copy and shadow, a type, of the true temple which is in heaven. Therefore the true, heavenly sanctuary into which Christ has entered on our behalf is better than its earthly copy. Because Christ Jesus our High Priest dwells in this heavenly sanctuary, we can enter the heavenly Holy of Holy and participate in the worship of the heavenly temple. The author appears to define the heavenly temple as 'the Church of the first-born.' 'But what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival, with the whole Church in which everyone is a 'first-born son' and a citizen of heaven.' 

According to Saint John, the author of the Book of Revelation, there is a celestial Mount Zion, a heavenly Jerusalem, and a heavenly temple. Christians who overcome temptation and trails are made pillars in the heavenly temple of God. From this heavenly temple God will issue His judgments on the nations during the Tribulation. The martyrs of the Tribulation will serve God day and night in His [heavenly] temple. The temple in Jerusalem will be measured and judged during that time.

In the New Jerusalem there will not be a temple because 'the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.' In that perfect city [The City of God] nothing will come between God and man, and we shall see God face. In the new heaven and earth 'the tabernacle of God' will be 'with men/women, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.' 

'Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, and the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, as beautiful as a bride all dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'You see this city? Here God lives among men. He will make his home among them; they shall be his people, and he will be their God; his name is God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness. The world of the past has gone.' - Revelation 21:1-4 - 

"But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and fornicators, and for fortune-tellers, idolaters or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur." - Revelation 21:8 -

Saint Paul identified the new temple with the Church, but Saint John identified it with the heavenly realm where Christ dwells. [The City of God] Further more, just as there was no temple before the fall, so Saint John anticipated a new heaven and a new earth without a temple. These different ways of understanding the relation of the temple to the new 'People of God' are complementary, not contradictory.

In accordance of the Sacred Scripture / Holy Bible - New Testament - According to Saint John, the author of the Book of Revelation, John saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared. And in the Old Testament - Prophet Isaiah saw vision from God - Isaiah 1:1 - Prophet Ezekiel saw vision from God - Ezekiel 1:1 - And God favoured these four boys with knowledge and intelligence in everything connected with literature, and in wisdom; while Prophet Daniel had gift of interpreting every kind of vision and dream. - Daniel 1:17 -

- Shiloah and the Euphrates - Yahweh spoke to me again and said: because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah which flow in tranquility, and trembles before Razon and the son of Remaliah, the Lord will bring up against you, the mighty and deep waters of the River and it will overflow out of its bed bursting all its banks; it will inundate Judah, flow over, pour out, flooding it up to the neck, and its wings will be spread over the whole breadth of your country, O Immanuel. - Isaiah 8:5-8 - He will destroy Death for ever, The Lord Yahweh will wipe away the tears from every cheek; he will take away his people's shame everywhere on earth, for Yahweh has said so. That day, it will be said: See, this is our God in whom we hoped for salvation; Yahweh is the one in whom we hoped. - Isaiah 25:8-9 - They will come to Zion shouting for joy, everlasting joy on their faces; joy and gladness will go with them and sorrow and lament be ended. - Isaiah 35:10 - Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty; though you have no money, come! Buy corn without money, and eat, and, at no cost, wine and milk. - Isaiah 55:1 - 

- Against Gog, king of Magog - The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows, 'Son of man, turn towards Gog and the country of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. Say, "The Lord Yahweh says this: I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. I will turn you round, fixing hooks in your jaws, and drag you and your troops along, all the horses and well-armoured horsemen, and all that great army carrying shields and bucklers, and wielding swords. Persia and Cush and Put are with them, all with buckler and helmet; Gomer and all its troops, northernmost Bethtogarmah and all its troops, and many nations with you. Be ready, be well prepared, you and all your troops and the others rallying round you, and hold yourself at my service.

Many days will pass before you are given orders; in years to come you will march against this country. Its inhabitants will have been living undisturbed, remote from all other peoples, since they escaped the sword and were gathered in from various nations, here in the long-deserted mountains of Israel. Like a storm you will come up and onwards, and cover the land like a cloud, you, your army and many nations with you. - Ezekiel 38:1-9 - 

I will punish him with plague and bloodshed and sent torrential rain, hailstones, fire and brimstone against him and his hordes and against the many nations with him. I mean to display my greatness and holiness and to compel the many nations to acknowledge me; this is how they will learn that I am Yahweh - Ezekiel 38:22-23 - 

I shall make my home above them; I will be their God, they shall be my people. And the nations will learn that I am Yahweh the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary is with them for ever. - Ezekiel 37:27-28 - 

This was the horn I had watched making war on the saints and proving the stronger, until the coming of the one of great age who gave judgment in favour of the saints of the Most High, when the time came for the saints to take over the kingdom. This is what he said: "The fourth beast is to be a fourth kingdom on earth, different from all other kingdoms. It will devour the whole earth, trample it underfoot and crush it. As for the ten horns: from this kingdom will rise ten kings, and another after them; this one will be different from the previous ones and will bring down three kings; he is going to speak words against the Most High, and harass the saints of the Most High. He will consider changing seasons and the Law, and the saints will be put into his power for a time, two times, and half a time. But a court will be held and his power will be stripped from him, consumed, and utterly destroyed. And sovereignty and kingship, and the splendours of all kingdoms under heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His sovereignty is an eternal sovereignty and every empire will serve and obey him." Here the narrative ends. 'I, Daniel, was greatly disturbed in mind, and I grew pale; but I kept these things to myself.' - Daniel 7:21-28 -  

- Daniel's vision - In the third year of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one originally appeared to me. I gazed at the vision, and as I gazed I found myself in Susa, the citadel in the province of Elam; gazing at the vision I found myself at the Gate of the Ulai. I raised my eyes to look round me, and I saw a ram standing in front of the river. It had two horns; both were tall, but one taller than the other, and the one that rose the higher was the second. I saw the ram thrust westward, northwards and southwards. No animal could stand up to it, nothing could escape it. It did as it pleased and grew very powerful.

This is what I observed: a he-goat came from the west, having covered the entire earth but without touching the ground, and between its eyes the goat had one majestic horn. It advanced towards the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the river, and charged with the ram, it knocked it down, breaking both its horns, and the ram had not the strength to resist; it felled it to the ground and trampled it underfoot; no one was there to save the ram. Then the he-goat grew more powerful than ever, but at the height of its strength the great horn snapped, and in its place sprouted four majestic horns, pointing to the four winds of heaven.

From one of these, the small one, sprang a horn which grew to great size towards south and east and towards the Land of Splendour. It grew right up to the armies of heaven and flung armies and stars to the ground, and trampled them underfoot. It even challenged the power of that army's Prince; it abolished the perpetual sacrifice and overthrew the foundation of his sanctuary, and the army too; it put iniquity on the sacrifice and flung truth to the ground; the horn was active and successful.

I heard a holy one speaking, and another who said to the speaker, 'How long is this vision to be - of perpetual sacrifice, disastrous iniquity, of sanctuary and army trampled underfoot?' The first replied, 'Until two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings have gone by: then the sanctuary shall have its rights restored'.

- The angel Gabriel interprets the vision - As I, Daniel gazed at the vision and tried to understand it, I saw someone standing before me who looked like a man. I heard a man's voice cry over the Ulai, 'Gabriel' tell him the meaning of the vision!' He approached the place where I was standing; as he approached I was seized with terror, and fell prostrate. 'Son of man,' he said to me 'understand this: the vision shows the time of the End.' He was still speaking, when I fell senseless to the ground. He touched me, however, and raised me to my feet. 'Come,' he said 'I will tell you what is going to happen when the wrath comes to an end; this concerns the appointed End. As for the ram that you saw, its two horns are the kings of Media and of Persia. The hairy he-goat is the king of Javan, the large horn between its eyes is the first king. The horn that snapped and the four horns that sprouted in its place are four kingdoms rising from his nation but not having his power.

'And at the end of their reign, when the measure of their sins is full, 

a king will rise, a proud-faced, ingenious-minded man.

His power will gather strength - but not through power of his own -

he will plot incredible schemes,

he will succeed in what he undertakes,

he will destroy powerful men

and the people of the saints.

Such will be his resourcefulness of mind

that all his treacherous activities will succeed.

He will grow arrogant of heart,

take many unawares and destroy them.

He will challenge the power of the Prince of princes

but, no hand intervening, shall himself be broken.

This explanation of the vision of the mornings and the evenings is true,

but you must keep the vision secret, for there are still many days to go.'                  

At this I, Daniel, lost consciousness; I was ill for several days. Then I got up to discharge my duties in the king's service, keeping the vision a secret, and not understanding what it meant. - Daniel 8:1-27 -

- The Book Of Revelation Prologue - This the revelation given by God to Jesus Christ so that he could tell his servants about the things which are now to take place very soon; he sent his angel to make it known to his servant John, and John has written down everything he saw and swears it is the word of God guaranteed by Jesus Christ. Happy the man/woman who reads this prophecy, and happy those who listen to him, if they treasure all that it says, because the Time is close. - Revelation 1:1-3 -       

- The beginning of the vision - My name is John, and through our union in Jesus I am your brother and share your sufferings, your kingdom, and all you endure......... 'Write down all that you see in a book, and send it to the seven churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.'... a figure like a Son of man, dressed in a long robe tied at the waist with a golden girdle. His head and his hair were white as white wool or as snow, his eyes like a burning flame, his feet like burnished bronze when it has been refined in a furnace, and his voice like the sound of the ocean.... When I saw him, I fell in a dead faint at his feet, but he touched me with his right hand and said, 'Do not be afraid: it is I, the First and the Last; I am the Living One, I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld. Now write down all that you see of present happenings and things that are still to come. The secret of the seven stars have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lamp-stands is this: the seven stars you have seen in my right hand, and of the seven golden lamp-stands is this: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp-stands are the seven churches themselves. - Revelation 1:9-20 -

In my vision, I heard the sound of an immense number of angels gathered round the throne and the animals and the elders; there were ten thousand times ten thousand of them and thousands upon thousands, shouting, 'The Lamb that was sacrificed is worthy to be given power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessing'. - Revelation 5:11-12 -

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and voices could be heard shouting in heaven, calling, 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever'. The twenty-four elders, enthroned in the presence of God, prostrated themselves and touched the ground with their foreheads worshipping God with these words, 'We give thanks to you, Almighty Lord God, He-Is-and-He-Was, for using your great power and beginning your reign. The nations were seething with rage and now the time has come for your own anger, and for the dead to be judged, and for your servants the prophets, for the saints and for all who worship you, small or great, to be rewarded. The time has come to destroy those who are destroying the earth.' 

Then the sanctuary of God in heaven opened and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake, and violent hail. - Revelation 11:15-19 - 

Then a second sign appeared in the sky, a huge red dragon which had seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet....... And now war broke out in heaven, when Archangel Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had deceived all the world, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him.

Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, 'Victory and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the persecutor, who accused our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the witness of their martyrdom, because even in the face of death they would not cling to life. Let the heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, trouble is coming because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that his days are numbered. - Revelation 12:2-12 - 

- The dragon delegates his power to the beast - I was standing on the seashore. Then I saw a beast emerge from the sea: it has seven heads and ten horns, with a coronet on each of its ten horns, and its head were marked with blasphemous titles. I saw that the beast was like a leopard, with paws like a bear and a mouth like a lion; the dragon had handed over to it own power and his throne and his worldwide authority. I saw that one of its head seemed to have had a fatal wound but this deadly injury had healed and after that, the whole world had marvelled and followed the beast. They prostrated themselves in front the dragon because he had given the beast his authority; and they prostrated themselves in front the beast, saying, 'Who can compare with the beast? How could anybody defeat him?' For forty-two months the beast was allowed to mouth its boast and blasphemies and to do whatever it wanted; and it mouthed its blasphemies against God, against his name, his heavenly Tent and all those who are sheltered there. It was allowed to make war against the saints and conquer them, and given power over every race, people, language and nation; and all people of the world will worship it, that is, everybody whose name has not been written down since the foundation of the world in the book of life of the sacrificial Lamb. If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen: Captivity for those who are destined for captivity; the sword for those who are to die by the sword. This is why the saints must have constancy and faith.

- The false prophet as the slave of the beast - Then I saw a second beast; it emerged from the ground; it had two horns like a lamb, but made a noise like a dragon. The second beast was servant to the first beast, and extended its authority everywhere, making the world and had been healed. And it worked great miracles, even to calling down fore from heaven on to the earth while people watched. Through the miracles which it was allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, it was able to win over the people of the world and persuade them to put up a statue in honour of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and still lived. It was allowed to breathe life into this statue, so that the statue of the beast was able to speak, and to have anyone who refused to worship the statue of the beast will be put to death. He compelled everyone - small and great, rich and poor, slave and citizen - to be branded on the right hand or on the forehead, and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything unless he/she had been branded with the name of the beast or with the number of its name. There is no need for shrewdness here: if anyone is clever enough he may interpret the number of the beast: it is number of a man, the number 666. - Revelation 13: 1-18 -                 

Then I saw the beast, with all the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to fight the rider and his army. But the beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had worked miracles on the beast's behalf and by them had deceived all who had been branded with the mark of the beast and worshipped his statue. These two were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur. All the rest were killed by the sword of the rider, which came out of his mouth, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh. - Revelation 19:19-21 -

- The reign of a thousand years - Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the Abyss in his hand and an enormous chain. He overpowered the dragon, that primeval serpent which is the devil and Satan, and chained him up for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and shut the entrance and seated it over him, to make sure he would not deceive the nations again until the thousand years had passed. At the end of that time he must be released, but only for a short while.

Then I saw some thrones, and I saw those who are given the power to be judges take their seats on them. I saw the souls of all who had been beheaded for having witnessed for Jesus and for having preached God's word, and those who refused to worship the beast or his statue and would not have the brand-mark on their foreheads or hands; they came to life, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection; the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over. Happy and blessed are those who share in the first resurrection: the second death cannot affect them but they will be priests of God and of Christ and reign with him for a thousand years.

- The second battle of the End - When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive all the nations in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, and mobilise them for war. His armies will be as many as the sands of the seas; they will come swarming over the entire country and besiege the camp of the saints, which is the city that God loves. But the devil, who misled them, will be thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beasts and the false prophet are, and their torture will not stop, day and night, for ever and ever.

-The punishment of the pagans - Then I saw a great white throne and the One who was sitting on it. In his presence, earth and sky vanished, leaving no trace. I saw the dead, both great and small, standing in front of his throne, while the book of life was opened, and other books opened which were the record of what they had done in their lives, by which the dead were judged.

The sea gave up all the dead who were in it; Death and Hades were emptied of the dead that were in them; and everyone was judged according to the way in which he/she had lived. Then Death and hades were thrown into the burning lake. This burning lake is the second death; and anybody whose name could not be found written in the book of life was thrown into the burning lake. - Revelation 20:1-15 - 

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Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!

Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 - 

If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 - 

I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -

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