11Revelation 11

The Two Witnesses

1I was then given a stick that looked like a measuring-rod, and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who are worshiping in the temple.Select Revelation 11:1

2But do not measure the outer courts, because they have been given to the heathen, who will trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.Select Revelation 11:2

3I will send my two witnesses dressed in sackcloth, and they will proclaim God's message during those 1, 260 days.”Select Revelation 11:3

4The two witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lamps that stand before the Lord of the earth.Select Revelation 11:4

5If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and destroys their enemies; and in this way whoever tries to harm them will be killed.Select Revelation 11:5

6They have authority to shut up the sky so that there will be no rain during the time they proclaim God's message. They have authority also over the springs of water, to turn them into blood; they have authority also to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.Select Revelation 11:6

7When they finish proclaiming their message, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will fight against them. He will defeat them and kill them,Select Revelation 11:7

8and their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, where their Lord was crucified. The symbolic name of that city is Sodom, or Egypt.Select Revelation 11:8

9People from all nations, tribes, languages, and races will look at their bodies for three and a half days and will not allow them to be buried.Select Revelation 11:9

10The people of the earth will be happy because of the death of these two. They will celebrate and send presents to each other, because those two prophets brought much suffering upon the whole human race.Select Revelation 11:10

11After three and a half days a life-giving breath came from God and entered them, and they stood up; and all who saw them were terrified.Select Revelation 11:11

12Then the two prophets heard a loud voice say to them from heaven, “Come up here!” As their enemies watched, they went up into heaven in a cloud.Select Revelation 11:12

13At that very moment there was a violent earthquake; a tenth of the city was destroyed, and seven thousand people were killed. The rest of the people were terrified and praised the greatness of the God of heaven.Select Revelation 11:13

14The second horror is over, but the third horror will come soon!Select Revelation 11:14

The Seventh Trumpet

15Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The power to rule over the world belongs now to our Lord and his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever!”Select Revelation 11:15

16Then the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones in front of God threw themselves face downward and worshiped God,Select Revelation 11:16

17saying: “Lord God Almighty, the one who is and who was! We thank you that you have taken your great power and have begun to rule!Select Revelation 11:17

18The heathen were filled with rage, because the time for your anger has come, the time for the dead to be judged. The time has come to reward your servants, the prophets, and all your people, all who have reverence for you, great and small alike. The time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth!”Select Revelation 11:18

19God's temple in heaven was opened, and the Covenant Box was seen there. Then there were flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.Select Revelation 11:19