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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Lamb and the 144,000</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father&#8217;s name written on their foreheads. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Three Angels</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth&#8212;to every nation, tribe, language and people. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He said in a loud voice, &#8220;Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A second angel followed and said, &#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:8 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 21:9</span></span></span><span class="content"> which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: &#8220;If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">they, too, will drink the wine of God&#8217;s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then I heard a voice from heaven say, &#8220;Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.14.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes,&#8221; says the Spirit, &#8220;they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the Winepress</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:14 </span><span class="ft">See Daniel 7:13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, &#8220;Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, &#8220;Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth&#8217;s vine, because its grapes are ripe.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God&#8217;s wrath. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses&#8217; bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:20 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 180 miles or about 300 kilometers</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">58</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">True Fasting</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Shout it aloud, do not hold back.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="content">Raise your voice like a trumpet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="content">Declare to my people their rebellion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="content">and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For day after day they seek me out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">they seem eager to know my ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">as if they were a nation that does what is right</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">and has not forsaken the commands of its God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">They ask me for just decisions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">and seem eager for God to come near them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8216;Why have we fasted,&#8217; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">&#8216;and you have not seen it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">Why have we humbled ourselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">and you have not noticed?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">and exploit all your workers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">and in striking each other with wicked fists.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">You cannot fast as you do today</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">and expect your voice to be heard on high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">only a day for people to humble themselves?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">Is it only for bowing one&#8217;s head like a reed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">Is that what you call a fast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">a day acceptable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">to loose the chains of injustice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">and untie the cords of the yoke,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">to set the oppressed free</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">and break every yoke?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Is it not to share your food with the hungry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">when you see the naked, to clothe them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then your light will break forth like the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">and your healing will quickly appear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">then your righteousness</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">58:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">your righteous One</span></span></span><span class="content"> will go before you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be your rear guard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then you will call, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">&#8220;If you do away with the yoke of oppression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">with the pointing finger and malicious talk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">then your light will rise in the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">and your night will become like the noonday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will guide you always;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">and will strengthen your frame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">You will be like a well-watered garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">like a spring whose waters never fail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">and will raise up the age-old foundations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and from doing as you please on my holy day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">if you call the Sabbath a delight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s holy day honorable,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and if you honor it by not going your own way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">then you will find your joy in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">The mouth of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div>
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