¹⁷ These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, [that] shall arise out of the earth.

¹ After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will shew thee the things which must take place after these things.

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.