11:1 Then I received a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, "Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. |
11:2 "Leave out the court which lies outside the temple and do not measure it, for the nations have received it; and they will tread underfoot the holy city for forty-two months. |
11:3 "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." |
11:4 We see the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. |
11:5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire flows out of their mouth and devours their enemies; so if anyone wants to harm them, he will forfeit his life. |
11:6 These have the power to shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. |
11:7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them and kill them. |
11:8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically we call Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord suffered crucifixion. |
11:9 Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to lay in a tomb. |
11:10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. |
11:11 But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who watched them. |
11:12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, " Come up here " Then they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them. |
11:13 And in that hour there occurred a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven thousand people died in the earthquake, and the rest felt terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. |
11:14 The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe comes quickly. |
11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded; and we heard 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." |
11:16 And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, |
11:17 saying, "We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who has always existed , because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign. |
11:18 "And the nations became enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to receive judgment, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." |
11:19 And the temple of God which lies in heaven opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and we saw flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm. |