Book of Common Prayer

Sign 3: Seven Angels With The Seven Last Plagues, And The Overcomers Singing

15 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having seven plagues— the last, because the fury of God was finished^[a] in them. ² And I saw something like a sea of-glass^[b] having been mixed with fire, and the ones overcoming^[c] from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name standing upon the sea of-glass, holding harps of God. ³ And they are singing the song of Moses the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying “Your works are great and marvelous, Lord God Almighty. Your ways are righteous and true, King of the nations. ⁴ Who will never come-to-fear, Lord, and glorify Your name? Because You alone are holy. Because all the nations will come and worship^[d] before You, because Your righteous-acts were revealed”.

Vision 4: The Seven Bowls of Wrath

⁵ And after these things I saw, and the temple of ^[e] the tabernacle^[f] of ^[g] testimony^[h] in heaven was opened^[i]. ⁶ And the seven angels having the seven plagues^[j] came out of the temple, having been dressed-in clean shining linen and having been girded-with golden belts around the chests. ⁷ And one of the four living-creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls being full of the fury of God, the One living forever and ever. ⁸ And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from His power. And no one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

Who Is The Greatest In The Kingdom? Whoever Will Humble Himself Like This Child

18 At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then^[a] is greater^[b] in the kingdom of the heavens?” ² And having summoned a child, He stood him^[c] in the middle of them, ³ and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are turned-around ^[d] and become like children^[e], you will never enter into the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ Therefore whoever will humble himself like this child, this one is the greater one in the kingdom of the heavens.

But Woe To Whoever Causes One of My Children Believing In Me To Fall

⁵ “And whoever welcomes^[f] one such^[g] child on the basis of My name, welcomes Me. ⁶ But whoever causes one of these little ones believing in Me to fall— it would be better^[h] for him that a donkey’s millstone^[i] be hung around his neck and he be sunk in the deep-part^[j] of the sea.

Woe To The World Because of Causes of Falling. Better To Tear Out Your Eye

⁷ “Woe to the world because of the causes-of-falling. For it is a necessity that causes-of-falling should come; nevertheless, woe to the person through whom the cause-of-falling comes. ⁸ But if your hand or your foot is causing you to fall, cut it off and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than to be thrown into the eternal fire having two hands or two feet. ⁹ And if your eye is causing you to fall, tear it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life one-eyed than to be thrown into the Gehenna^[k] of fire having two eyes.

Don’t Look Down On These Little Ones. God Does Not Want One of Them Lost

¹⁰ “See that you do not look-down-upon^[l] one of these little ones. For I say to you that their angels in the heavens are continually seeing^[m] the face of My Father in the heavens. ^{11 [n] 12} What seems right to you? If a hundred sheep belong to any man and one of them went-astray, will he not leave the ninety nine on the mountains, and having gone, be seeking the one going astray? ¹³ And if it comes about that he finds it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety nine not having gone astray. ¹⁴ So it is not the will in-the-sight-of ^[o] your Father in the heavens that one of these little ones should be-lost.