The two witnesses REVELATION, 11. that shall prophesy.

19 For their power is in their that therein are, and the earth, mouth, and in their tails: for and the things that therein are, their tails were like unto ser- and the sea, and the things pents, and had heads, and with which are therein, that there them they do hurt. should be time no longer :

20 And the rest of the men 7 But in the days of the voice which were not killed by these of the seventh angel, when he plagues yet repented not of the shall begin to sound, the mysworks of their hands, that they tery of God should be finished, should not worship devils, and as he hath declared to his seridols of gold, and silver, and vants the prophets. brass, and stone, and of wood: 8 And the voice which I heard which neither can see, nor from heaven spake unto me hear, nor walk: again, and said, Go and take 21 Neither repented they of the little book which is open their murders, nor of their sor- in the hand of the angel which ceries, nor of their fornication, standeth upon the sea and upon nor of their thefts. the earth.

CHAPTER 10.

9 And I went unto the angel, (and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly

AND I saw another mighty bitter, but it shall be in thy

angel come down from mouth sweet as honey. heaven, clothed with a cloud: 10 And I took the little book and a rainbow was upon his out of the angel's hand, and head, and his face was as it ate it up; and it was in my were the sun, and his feet as mouth sweet as honey and pillars of fire:

2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set ais right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices,

as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

CHAPTER 11.

I was about to write: and AND there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and heard a voice from heaven say- the angel stood, saying, Rise, ing unto me, Seal up those and measure the temple of things which the seven thun- God, and the altar, and them ders uttered, and write them that worship therein.

not.

2 But the court which is with

5 And the angel which I saw out the temple leave out, and stand upon the sea and upon measure it not; for it is given the earth lifted up his hand to unto the Gentiles: and the holy heaven, city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who cre- 3 And I will give power unto ated heaven, and the things my two witnesses, and they

The seventh

REVELATION, 12. trumpet sounded.

shall prophesy a thousand two a cloud; and their enemies behundred and threescore days, held them. clothed in sackcloth.

13 And the same hour was 4 These are the two olive there a great earthquake, and trees, and the two candlesticks the tenth part of the city fell, standing before the God of the and in the earthquake were earth.

5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

6 These have power to shut 15 And the seventh angel heaven, that it rain not in the sounded; and there were great days of their prophecy: and voices in heaven, saying, The have power over waters to turn kingdoms of this world are bethem to blood, and to smite come the kingdoms of our Lord, the earth with all plagues, as and of his Christ; and he shall often as they will. reign for ever and ever. 16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

18 And the nations were an9 And they of the people and and the time of the dead, that gry, and thy wrath is come, kindreds and tongues and na- they should be judged, and tions shall see their dead bodies that thou shouldest give rethree days and an half, and ward unto thy servants the shall not suffer their dead prophets, and to the saints, and bodies to be put in graves. them that fear thy name, small 10 And they that dwell upon and great; and shouldest dethe earth shall rejoice over stroy them which destroy the them, and make merry, and earth. shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tor mented them that dwelt on the earth.

19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there 11 And after three days and were lightnings, and voices, an half the Spirit of life from and thunderings, and an earthGod entered into them, and quake, and great hail. they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in

CHAPTER 12.

AND there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and

The dragon

REVELATION, 13. cast out of heaven.

the moon under her feet, and by the blood of the Lamb, and upon her head a crown of by the word of their testimony; twelve stars: and they loved not their lives unto the death.

2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heapained to be delivered. vens, and ye that dwell in 3 And there appeared another them. Woe to the inhabiters wonder in heaven; and behold of the earth and of the sea! for a great red dragon, having se- the devil is come down unto ven heads and ten horns, and you, having great wrath, beseven crowns upon his heads. cause he knoweth that he hath 4 And his tail drew the third but a short time. part of the stars of heaven, and that he was cast unto the earth, 13 And when the dragon saw did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before which brought forth the man he persecuted the woman the woman which was ready child.

to be delivered, for to devour 14 And to the woman were her child as soon as it was given two wings of a great born. 5 And she brought forth a the wilderness, into her place, eagle, that she might fly into man child, who was to rule all where she is nourished for a nations with a rod of iron: time, and times, and half a and her child was caught up time, from the face of the serunto God, and to his throne. pent.

6 And the woman fled into 15 And the serpent cast out the wilderness, where she hath of his mouth water as a flood a place prepared of God, that after the woman, that he might they should feed her there a cause her to be carried away thousand two hundred and of the flood.

threescore days.

7 And there was war in hea- woman, and the earth opened 16 And the earth helped the ven: Michael and his angels her mouth, and swallowed up fought against the dragon; the flood which the dragon and the dragon fought and his cast out of his mouth. angels,

8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more

in heaven.

17 And the dragon was wroth make war with the remnant of with the woman, and went to mandments of God, and have her seed, which keep the com

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which the testimony of Jesus Christ. deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

10 And I heard a loud voice

CHAPTER 13.

saying in heaven, Now is come AND I stood upon the sand salvation, and strength, and rise up out of the sea, having of the sea, and saw a beast the kingdom of our God, and seven heads and ten horns, and the power of his Christ; for the upon his horns ten crowns, and accuser of our brethren is cast upon his heads the name of down, which accused them be- blasphemy.

fore our God day and night. 2 And the beast which I saw 11 And they overcame him was like unto a leopard, and

A beast riseth

REVELATION, 14. out of the earth.

his feet were as the feet of a them which dwell therein to bear, and his mouth as the worship the first beast, whose mouth of a lion and the dra- deadly wound was healed. gon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had 4 And they worshipped the power to do in the sight of the dragon which gave power unto beast; saying to them that the beast: and they worship- dwell on the earth, that they ped the beast, saying, Who is should make an image to the like unto the beast? who is beast, which had the wound able to make war with him? by a sword, and did live.

5 And there was given unto 15 And he had power to give him a mouth speaking great life unto the image of the beast, things and blasphemies; and that the image of the beast power was given unto him to should both speak, and cause continue forty and two months. that as many as would not 6 And he opened his mouth worship the image of the beast in blasphemy against God, to should be killed. blaspheme his name, and his 16 And he causeth all, both tabernacle, and them that small and great, rich and poor, dwell in heaven. free and bond, to receive a 7 And it was given unto him mark in their right hand, or in to make war with the saints, their foreheads: and to overcome them: and 17 And that no man might power was given him over all buy or sell, save he that had kindreds, and tongues, and the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his

nations.

8 And all that dwell upon the name. earth shall worship him, whose 18 Here is wisdom. Let him names are not written in the that hath understanding count book of life of the Lamb slain the number of the beast: for it from the foundation of the is the number of a man; and world. his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.

10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.

Here is the patience and the

faith of the saints.

CHAPTER 14.

Lamb stood on the mount

ND I looked, and lo, a

11 And I beheld another beast Sion, and with him an huncoming up out of the earth; dred forty and four thousand, and he had two horns like a having his Father's name writlamb, and he spake as a dra- ten in their foreheads.

2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the

REVELATION, 15.

The fall of Babylon. voice of harpers harping with holy angels, and in the pretheir harps: sence of the Lamb: 3 And they sung as it were 11 And the smoke of their a new song before the throne, torment ascendeth up for ever and before the four beasts, and and ever: and they have no the elders: and no man could rest day nor night, who wor learn that song but the hun- ship the beast and his image, dred and forty and four thou-and whosoever receiveth the sand, which were redeemed mark of his name.

from the earth.

4 These are they which were saints: here are they that keep 12 Here is the patience of the not defiled with women; for the commandments of God, they are virgins. These are and the faith of Jesus. they which follow the Lamb. whithersoever he goeth. These 13 And I heard a voice from were redeemed from among heaven saying unto me, Write, men, being the firstfruits unto Blessed are the dead which die God and to the Lamb. in the Lord from henceforth : 5 And in their mouth was Yea, saith the Spirit, that they found no guile: for they are may rest from their labours; without fault before the throne and their works do follow of God. them.

6 And I saw another angel 14 And I looked, and behold fly in the midst of heaven, cloud one sat like unto the Son a white cloud, and upon the having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell of man, having on his head a on the earth, and to every na- golden crown, and in his hand tion, and kindred, and tongue, a sharp sickle.

and people,

15 And another angel came 7 Saying with a loud voice, out of the temple, crying with Fear God, and give glory to a loud voice to him that sat on him; for the hour of his judg- the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, ment is come: and worship and reap: for the time is come him that made heaven, and for thee to reap; for the harearth, and the sea, and the vest of the earth is ripe. fountains of waters. 16 And he that sat on the

8 And there followed another cloud thrust in his sickle on angel, saying, Babylon is fall- the earth; and the earth was en, is fallen, that great city, reaped.

because she made all nations 17 And another angel came drink of the wine of the wrath out of the temple which is in of her fornication. heaven, he also having a sharp

9 And the third angel follow-sickle. ed them, saying with a loud 18 And another angel came voice, If any man worship the out from the altar, which had beast and his image, and re- power over fire; and cried with ceive his mark in his forehead, a loud cry to him that had the or in his hand, sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in 10 The same shall drink of thy sharp sickle, and gather the wine of the wrath of God, the clusters of the vine of the which is poured out without earth; for her grapes are fully mixture into the cup of his ripe.

indignation; and he shall be 19 And the angel thrust in his tormented with fire and brim- sickle into the earth, and gastone in the presence of the thered the vine of the earth,