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Acts 10:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

He saw heaven open, and something came down like a huge sheet held up by its four corners.

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You will have power and rule until nations obey you and come bringing gifts.

I will say to the north and to the south, “Free my sons and daughters! Let them return from distant lands.

I, the LORD, promise to bring together my people who were taken away, and let them join the others.

I am Ezekiel—a priest and the son of Buzi. Five years after King Jehoiachin of Judah had been led away as a prisoner to Babylonia, I was living near the River Chebar among those who had been taken there with him. Then on the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year, the heavens suddenly opened. The LORD placed his hand upon me and showed me some visions.

Many people will come from everywhere to enjoy the feast in the kingdom of heaven with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

While everyone else was being baptized, Jesus himself was baptized. Then as he prayed, the sky opened up,

I tell you for certain that you will see heaven open and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of Man.”

Yet Jesus would not die just for the Jewish nation. He would die to bring together all God's scattered people.

If I am lifted up above the earth, I will make everyone want to come to me.”

In it were all kinds of animals, snakes, and birds.

I was in the town of Joppa and was praying when I fell sound asleep and had a vision. I saw heaven open, and something like a huge sheet held by its four corners came down to me.

Then Stephen said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right side of God!”

I am proud of the good news! It is God's powerful way of saving all people who have faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.

They are the descendants of Israel, and they are also God's chosen people. God showed them his glory. He made agreements with them and gave them his Law. The temple is theirs and so are the promises that God made to them.

We are Jews by birth and are not sinners like Gentiles.

Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.

Then when the time is right, God will do all that he has planned, and Christ will bring together everything in heaven and on earth.

And the mystery is this: Because of Christ Jesus, the good news has given the Gentiles a share in the promises that God gave to the Jews. God has also let the Gentiles be part of the same body.

It doesn't matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, or if you are circumcised or not. You may even be a barbarian or a Scythian, and you may be a slave or a free person. Yet Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.

The door to God's temple in heaven was then opened, and the sacred chest could be seen inside the temple. I saw lightning and heard roars of thunder. The earth trembled and huge hailstones fell to the ground.

I looked and saw that heaven was open, and a white horse was there. Its rider was called Faithful and True, and he is always fair when he judges or goes to war.

After this, I looked and saw a door that opened into heaven. Then the voice that had spoken to me at first and that sounded like a trumpet said, “Come up here! I will show you what must happen next.”




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