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"12. And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair; and the whole moon became as blood:

13. And the stars fell from heaven upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

14. And the heavens departed as a book folded up: and every mountain, and the islands were moved out of their places.

15. And the kings of earth, and the princes, and tribunes, and the rich, and the strong, and every bond man, and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains.

16. And they said to the mountains and to the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wra,th of the Lamb.

17. For the great day of their wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?"

On the opening of the sixth seal we catch a glimpse of the last persecution and the destruction of the world. This is to show that the prayers of the martyrs have already been heard in the designs of God, and shall be answered in due time.