Quotes About Revelation

“Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.

One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

He became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.

He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.

Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.

As Peter continued to reflect on the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you.

As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him.

Cornelius answered: “Four days ago I was in my house praying at this, the ninth hour. Suddenly a man in radiant clothing stood before me

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard his message.

“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.

I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.

Then I heard a voice saying to me, ëGet up, Peter, kill and eat.í

ëNo, Lord,í I said, ëfor nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.í

This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into heaven.

Just then three men sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying.

In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:

that have been known for ages.í

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.