Revelation 11
11
The Two Witnesses
1Then I was given a measuring reed # Ezk 40:3,5; 42:15-19; Rv 21:15 like a rod, # Other mss add and the angel stood up with these words: “Go # Lit Arise and measure God’s sanctuary and the altar, and count those who worship there. 2But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. # Ezk 40:17,20; 42:14 Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, # Or Gentiles # Lk 21:24 and they will trample the holy city # Rv 21:1 for 42 months. # Dn 7:25; 12:7,11; Rv 12:6,14; 13:5 3I will empower # Lit I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, # = 3 1/2 years of 30-day months, dressed in sackcloth. # Gn 37:34; 2Sa 3:31; 1Kg 20:31-32; 21:25-29; 2Kg 19:1-2; 1Ch 21:16; Is 3:24; 20:2; Jr 6:26 ” # Mourning garment of coarse, often black, material 4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord # 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. 6These men have the power 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 # Or wild animal # 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 with them, conquer them, and kill them. 8Their dead bodies # Lit Their corpse # Is 66:24 will lie in the public square # Or lie on the broad street of the great city, # Rv 16:19; 17:18; 18:10,16-21,24 which prophetically # Or spiritually, or symbolically 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 representatives from # 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 brought judgment to those who live on the earth.
The Witnesses Resurrected
11But after 3 1/2 days, the breath # 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. So great fear fell on those who saw them. 12Then they heard # 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 7,000 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 quickly!
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 Messiah,
and He will reign forever and ever! # 2Sm 7:16; Is 37:16; Dn 7:14,18; Lk 1:32-33
16The 24 elders, who were seated before God on their thrones, fell facedown and worshiped God, 17saying:
We thank You, Lord God, the Almighty,
who is and who was, # 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.
19God’s sanctuary in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant # Other mss read ark of the covenant of the Lord appeared in His sanctuary. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings of thunder, # Rv 4:5; 8:5 an earthquake, # Other mss omit an earthquake and severe hail.
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Revelation 11
11
The Two Witnesses
1 And a measuring rod similar in appearance to a staff was given to me, saying, “Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it. 2And leave out the courtyard outside of the temple, and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample the holy city for forty two months. 3And I will grant authority#*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth.” 4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, in this way he must be killed. 6These have the authority to shut the sky, so that it does not rain#Literally “it does not rain rain”; the redundancy is removed in the translation during the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters, to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they wish.
7And when they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war with them and will conquer them and will kill them. 8And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is called symbolically Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9And those from peoples and tribes and languages and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb. 10And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them, and will celebrate and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.
11And after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here,” and they went up into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13And at that hour a great earthquake took place, and a tenth of the city collapsed, and seven thousand people#Literally “names of men” were killed by the earthquake, and the rest became terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly!
The Blowing of the Seventh Trumpet
15And the seventh angel blew the trumpet, and there was a loud voice 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#Literally “for the ages of the ages”.”
16And the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God fell down on their faces and worshiped God, 17saying,
“We give thanks to you, Lord God All-Powerful,
the one who is and the one who was,
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.
18And the nations were angry,
and your wrath has come,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and to give their#*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun reward to your slaves the prophets
and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name,
the small and the great,
and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
19And the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple, and there were lightnings and sounds and thunders and an earthquake and large hail.#Or “a great hailstorm”
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