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• Psalm 134

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  Psalm 134 is the last of the "Songs of Ascents" (Psalms 120–134). A short psalm of praise in three verses, it calls the servants of the LORD who minister in the temple by night to bless the LORD and prays for the blessing that comes out of Zion.

• River of the Water of Life

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  The river of the water of life is the river described in Revelation 22 as flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb and watering the New Jerusalem. Together with Ezekiel's vision in Ezekiel 47 of a river flowing from the temple, it is read as a symbol of the life that God gives.

• Ezekiel 2

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  Ezekiel 2 recounts Ezekiel's call to be a prophet. God addresses him as "son of man," sends him to the rebellious children of Israel, and holds out to him a scroll written with lamentations, mourning, and woe.

• Ezekiel 9

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  Ezekiel 9 describes a scene of judgment on Jerusalem that Ezekiel saw in a vision. A mark is set on the foreheads of those who sigh and cry over the city's abominations, the rest are ordered to be struck down, and the judgment begins at the sanctuary.

• Daniel 12

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  The final chapter of the Book of Daniel, which speaks of the tribulation and deliverance of the last days and of the awakening of the dead. To the question of when the end will come, it answers with "a time, times, and an half" and with specific numbers of days, and it promises Daniel rest at the end of the days.

• Habakkuk 2

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  Habakkuk 2 is the chapter in which the LORD answers the prophet's question with a vision declaring that "the just shall live by his faith," and then pronounces five woes upon a proud oppressor.

• Mark 13

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  Mark 13 is the chapter in which Jesus foretells the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem and, on the Mount of Olives, teaches four disciples about the signs of the last days, the coming of the Son of Man, and the need to watch.

• Acts 5

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  Acts 5 recounts the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira, who lied about the price of their land; the signs performed by the apostles and their imprisonment; their examination before the council; Gamaliel's counsel; and the apostles' release.

• Revelation 22

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  Revelation 22 is the final chapter of the Book of Revelation and of the entire Bible. It opens with a vision of the river of the water of life and the tree of life in the New Jerusalem, and it closes the book with the promise "Surely I come quickly" and the response "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

• Revelation 13

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  Revelation 13 contains the vision of two beasts that receive authority from the dragon: the beast that rises out of the sea and the beast that comes up out of the earth. The chapter introduces the mark of the beast and the number 666.

• Revelation 8

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  Revelation 8 is the chapter in which the Lamb opens the seventh seal and heaven falls silent. Seven angels receive trumpets, and four of them sound in turn, bringing plagues upon a third of the earth, the sea, the rivers, and the heavens.