Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

five have fallen; one is, ¹  and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.

I hereby decree ¹  that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes ²  the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.”