Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.

I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”

And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.

But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.

The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.