Book of Common Prayer

¹² And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates— and its water was dried-up in order that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun^[a]. ¹³ And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false-prophet. ¹⁴ For they are spirits of demons doing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world to gather them together for the battle of the great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵ “Behold^[b]— I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one keeping-watch^[c], and keeping his garments in order that he not be walking-around naked and they see his shame”. ¹⁶ And they gathered them together to the place being called Har-Magedon in Hebrew.

¹⁷ And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air— and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne saying, “It is done^[d]”. ¹⁸ And there came lightnings^[e] and voices and thunders. And a great earthquake took place such as did not take place from which time a human^[f] came-to-be^[g] upon the earth— so-large an earthquake, so great. ¹⁹ And the great city^[h] came-to-be in three parts. And the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered^[i] in the presence of God— to give her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath. ²⁰ And every island fled, and the mountains were not found. ²¹ And great hail weighing about a talent^[j] comes down from heaven upon the people. And the people blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague is extremely great.

¹⁸ Therefore, He was saying, “To what is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I liken it? ¹⁹ It is like a seed of a mustard-plant which, having taken, a man threw into his own garden. And it grew and became a tree. And the birds of the heaven nested in its branches”. ²⁰ And again He said, “To what shall I liken the kingdom of God? ²¹ It is like leaven, which having taken, a woman concealed^[a] into three measures of wheat-flour until which time the whole thing was leavened”.

Enter Through The Narrow Door Before It Is Too Late

²² And He was journeying-through according to cities and villages, teaching and making the journey to Jerusalem. ²³ And someone said to Him, “Master, are the ones being saved few?” And the One said to them, ²⁴ “Be striving to enter through the narrow door, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter, and will not be able. ²⁵ From whatever time the house-master arises and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to be knocking on the door saying ‘Master, open for us’, and having responded, he will say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from’— ²⁶ then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught on our wide-roads’. ²⁷ And he will speak, saying to you, ‘I do not know you— where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of unrighteousness’. ²⁸ In that place, there will be the weeping and the grinding of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you being thrown outside. ²⁹ And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and lie back [to eat] in the kingdom of God. ³⁰ And behold— there are last ones who will be first, and there are first ones who will be last”.