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"For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

AND THE STARS WILL BE FALLING from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

"And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

And Jesus said, "I am; and you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

When the angels had departed from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, "Let's go straight to Bethlehem, then, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened,

and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven: "You are My beloved Son, in You I am well pleased."

"Rejoice on that day and jump for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For their fathers used to treat the prophets the same way.

And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and, looking up to heaven, He blessed them and broke them, and gave them to the disciples again and again, to serve the crowd.

When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

"And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will be brought down to Hades!

And He said to them, "I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

"Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven."

At that very time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for doing so was well pleasing in Your sight.

Others, to test Him, were demanding of Him a sign from heaven.

"Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor does a moth destroy.

"I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.