Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? [Or] shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children.

"Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

"And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,

"which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added [to them.]

And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

That say, "Let Him make speed [and] hasten His work, That we may see [it;] And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know [it."]

For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.

"And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?

For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.