He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent---that is, the Devil, or Satan---and chained him up for a thousand years.

Then I saw heaven open, and there was a white horse. Its rider is called Faithful and True; it is with justice that he judges and fights his battles.

Surely you won't kill the innocent with the guilty. That's impossible! You can't do that. If you did, the innocent would be punished along with the guilty. That is impossible. The judge of all the earth has to act justly."

But the LORD is king forever; he has set up his throne for judgment.

He rules the world with righteousness; he judges the nations with justice.

Evildoers frustrate the plans of the humble, but the LORD is their protection.

How I pray that victory will come to Israel from Zion. How happy the people of Israel will be when the LORD makes them prosperous again!

God sits on his sacred throne; he rules over the nations.

Your kingdom is founded on righteousness and justice; love and faithfulness are shown in all you do.

Clouds and darkness surround him; he rules with righteousness and justice.

"When the Son of Man comes as King and all the angels with him, he will sit on his royal throne,

God has overlooked the times when people did not know him, but now he commands all of them everywhere to turn away from their evil ways.

For he has fixed a day in which he will judge the whole world with justice by means of a man he has chosen. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising that man from death!"

But you have a hard and stubborn heart, and so you are making your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous judgments will be revealed.

The sky disappeared like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

All the islands disappeared, all the mountains vanished.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth disappeared, and the sea vanished.

I looked at the earth---it was a barren waste; at the sky---there was no light.

I saw that there were no people; even the birds had flown away.

At once the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold crumbled and became like the dust on a threshing place in summer. The wind carried it all away, leaving not a trace. But the stone grew to be a mountain that covered the whole earth.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

But the heavens and the earth that now exist are being preserved by the same command of God, in order to be destroyed by fire. They are being kept for the day when godless people will be judged and destroyed.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish.

as you wait for the Day of God and do your best to make it come soon---the Day when the heavens will burn up and be destroyed, and the heavenly bodies will be melted by the heat.

but the dragon was defeated, and he and his angels were not allowed to stay in heaven any longer.

God sends earthquakes and shakes the ground; he rocks the pillars that support the earth.