10. will themselves drink God's wine, the wine of his fury, which he has poured at full strength into the cup of his anger! All who do this will be tormented in fire and sulphur before the holy angels and the Lamb.
11. The smoke of the fire that torments them goes up for ever and ever. There is no relief day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, for anyone who has the mark of its name.”
12. This calls for endurance on the part of God's people, those who obey God's commandments and are faithful to Jesus.
13. Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: happy are those who from now on die in the service of the Lord!”“Yes indeed!” answers the Spirit. “They will enjoy rest from their hard work, because the results of their service go with them.”
14. Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was what looked like a human being, with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15. Then another angel came out from the temple and cried out in a loud voice to the one who was sitting on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap the harvest, because the time has come; the earth is ripe for the harvest!”