^{13 Ref} And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'

^{14 Ref} And I saw, and lo, a white cloud, and upon the cloud `one' sitting like to a son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle;

^{15 Ref} and another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary crying in a great voice to him who is sitting upon the cloud, `Send forth thy sickle and reap, because come to thee hath the hour of reaping, because ripe hath been the harvest of the earth;'

^{16 Ref} and he who is sitting upon the cloud did put forth his sickle upon the earth, and the earth was reaped.

^{17 Ref} And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary that `is' in the heaven, having -- he also -- a sharp sickle,