But the Lord has always loved his followers.\par And he will continue to love his followers\par forever and ever!\par God will be good to their children\par and to their children’s children.\par
God, you were God\par before the mountains were born\par and the earth and the world were made.\par God, you have always been,\par and you will always be, God!\par
Who caused \{these things to happen\}?\par Who did this?\par Who called all people from the beginning?\par \{I, the Lord, did these things\}!\par I, the Lord, am the first.\par I was here before the beginning.\par And I will be here when all things\par are finished.\par
The Lord is the king of Israel. The Lord All-Powerful saves Israel. The Lord says, “I am the only God. There are no other gods. I am the Beginning and the End.
You will fold them like a coat.\par And they will be changed like clothes.\par But you never change.\par And your life will never end.”\par \i (Psalm 102:25-27)\i0 \par
Everything good comes from God. And every perfect gift is from God. These good gifts come down from the Father who made all the lights in the sky (sun, moon, stars). But God never changes \{like those lights\}. He is always the same.
The voice said, “Write in a book all these things you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”