Revelation 5:2
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2 and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”
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Isaiah 29:11-12
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11 The vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to those who can read with the command, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot, for it is sealed.”(A) 12 And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot read.”
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Revelation 5:5
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5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”(A)
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Revelation 10:1
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The Angel with the Little Scroll
10 And I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun and his legs like pillars of fire.(A)
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Isaiah 41:22-23
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22 Let them bring them and tell us
what is to happen.
Tell us the former things, what they were,
so that we may consider them
and that we may know their outcome
or declare to us the things to come.(A)
23 Tell us what is to come hereafter,
that we may know that you are gods;
do good, or do harm,
that we may be afraid and terrified.(B)
Psalm 103:20
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20 Bless the Lord, O you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
obedient to his spoken word.(A)
Revelation 18:21
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21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,
“With such violence Babylon the great city
will be thrown down
and will be found no more;(A)
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