⁵ Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed^(A)

³¹ Another parable He put forth to them, saying: ^(B)“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, ³² which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a ^(C)tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

² He laid hold of ^(A)the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and ^(B)set a seal on him, ^(C)so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

The Saints Reign with Christ 1,000 Years

⁴ And I saw ^(D)thrones, and they sat on them, and ^(E)judgment was committed to them. Then I saw ^(F)the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, ^(G)who had not worshiped the beast ^(H)or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they ^(I)lived and ^(J)reigned with Christ for ^[a]a thousand years.

Seventh Trumpet: The Kingdom Proclaimed

¹⁵ Then ^(A)the seventh angel sounded: ^(B)And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ^(C)“The ^[a]kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, ^(D)and He shall reign forever and ever!”

A Multitude from the Great Tribulation

⁹ After these things I looked, and behold, ^(A)a great multitude which no one could number, ^(B)of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, ^(C)clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

³⁴ You watched while a stone was cut out ^(A)without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. ^35 (B)Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became ^(C)like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that ^(D)no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image ^(E)became a great mountain ^(F)and filled the whole earth.