First Reading: Revelation 20:1-4, 11--21:2

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain.
² And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
³ and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while.
⁴ Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.
¹³ And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done.
¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire;
¹⁵ and if any one’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;