Revelation 11
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The Two Witnesses
1Then I was given a measuring reed#Ezk 40:3,5; 42:15–19; Rv 21:15 like a rod,#11:1 Other mss add and the angel stood up with these words: “Go#11:1 Lit “Arise and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who worship there. 2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple.#Ezk 40:17,20; 42:14 Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations,#11:2 Or Gentiles#Lk 21:24 and they will trample the holy city#Rv 21:1 for forty-two months.#Dn 7:25; 12:7,11; Rv 12:6,14; 13:5 3I will grant#11:3 Or I will give to my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”#Gn 37:34; 2Sm 3:31; 1Kg 20:31–32; 21:25–29; 2Kg 19:1–2; 1Ch 21:16; Is 3:24; 20:2; Jr 6:26 4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord#11:4 Other mss read God of the earth.#Zch 4:3,11–14 5If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies;#2Kg 1:10–12; Jr 5:14; Rv 9:17 if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way. 6They have authority to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy.#Gn 8:2; Dt 11:17; 1Kg 8:35; 17:1; 2Ch 6:26; 7:13; Lk 4:25 They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood#Ex 4:9; 7:17–21; Rv 16:4 and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.#Ex 5:3; 9:15; Jr 21:6; Ezk 28:23; Zch 14:12,15
The Witnesses Martyred
7When they finish their testimony, the beast#Dn 7:11; Rv 13:1–18; 17:8 that comes up out of the abyss#Ps 140:10; Lk 8:31; Rm 10:7; Rv 9:1,11; 17:8; 20:1–3 will make war on them, conquer them, and kill them. 8Their dead bodies#11:8 Or Their corpse#Is 66:24 will lie in the main street#11:8 Or lie on the broad street of the great city,#Rv 16:19; 17:18; 18:10,16–21,24 which figuratively#11:8 Or spiritually is called Sodom#Is 1:9,10; 3:9; Jr 23:14; Ezk 16:46,49 and Egypt,#Ezk 23:3,8,19,27 where also their Lord was crucified. 9And some of#11:9 Lit And from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations#Rv 5:9; 7:9; 10:11 will view their bodies for three and a half days and not permit their bodies to be put into a tomb.#Lv 26:30; 2Sm 4:12; Is 66:24 10Those who live on the earth will gloat#Ps 25:2; 94:3; Pr 24:17; Ob 12–13 over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
The Witnesses Resurrected
11But after three and a half days, the breath#11:11 Or spirit of life#Gn 2:7; 6:17; 7:15,22; Ezk 37:5 from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them. 12Then they heard#11:12 Other mss read Then I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” They went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.#2Kg 2:1; Mk 16:19; Lk 24:51; Ac 1:9–10 13At that moment a violent earthquake took place,#Is 29:6; Ezk 38:19 a tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake. The survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14The second woe#Rv 8:13; 9:12 has passed. Take note: The third woe is coming soon!
The Seventh Trumpet
15The seventh angel blew his trumpet,#Is 27:13 and there were loud voices in heaven saying,
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom
of our Lord and of his Christ,
and he will reign forever and ever.#2Sm 7:16; Is 37:16; Dn 7:14,18; Lk 1:32–33
16The twenty-four elders, who were seated before God on their thrones, fell facedown and worshiped God, 17saying,
We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty,
who is and who was,#11:17 Other mss add and who is to come#Rv 1:4,8; 4:8; 16:5
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.#Lk 1:33; 1Co 15:25; Rv 19:6
18The nations were angry,#Ps 2:1
but your wrath has come.
The time has come
for the dead to be judged
and to give the reward
to your servants the prophets,#Rv 10:7
to the saints, and to those who fear your name,
both small and great,#2Kg 23:2; Ps 115:13; Rv 19:5
and the time has come to destroy
those who destroy the earth.
19Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant#11:19 Other mss read ark of the covenant of the Lord appeared in his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder,#Rv 4:5; 8:5 an earthquake,#11:19 Other mss omit an earthquake and severe hail.
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Revelation 11
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1And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, ‘Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it;
2and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;
3and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;
4these are the two olive [trees], and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand;
5and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed.
6These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.
7‘And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,
8and their dead bodies [are] upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)
9and they shall behold — they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations — their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,
10and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these — the two prophets — did torment those dwelling upon the land.’
11And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,
12and they heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to them, ‘Come up hither;’ and they went up to the heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them;
13and in that hour came a great earthquake, and the tenth of the city did fall, and killed in the earthquake were names of men — seven thousands, and the rest became affrighted, and they gave glory to the God of the heaven.
14The second woe did go forth, lo, the third woe doth come quickly.
15And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of the world did become [those] of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!’
16and the twenty and four elders, who before God are sitting upon their thrones, did fall upon their faces, and did bow before God,
17saying, ‘We give thanks to Thee, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art, and who wast, and who art coming, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and didst reign;
18and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.’
19And opened was the sanctuary of God in the heaven, and there was seen the ark of His covenant in His sanctuary, and there did come lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.
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