CHAPTER 11
Then
I
was given
a measuring rod
like
a staff
and was told,
“Go
and
measure
the
temple
of God
and
the
altar,
and
count the number of
worshipers
there.
But
exclude
the
courtyard
outside
the
temple.
Do not
measure
it,
because
it has been given over
to the
nations,
and
they will trample
the
holy
city
for 42
months.
And
I will empower
my
two
witnesses,
and
they will prophesy
for 1,260
days,
clothed in
sackcloth.”
These witnesses
are
the
two
olive trees
and
the
two
lampstands
that stand
before
the
Lord
of the
earth.
If
anyone
wants
to harm
them,
fire
proceeds
from
their
mouths
and
devours
their
enemies.
In this way,
anyone who
wants
to harm
them
must
be killed.
These witnesses
have
power
to shut
the
sky
so that
no
rain
will fall
during the
days
of
their
prophecy,
and
power
to turn
the
waters
into
blood,
and
to strike
the
earth
with
every kind of
plague
as often as
they wish.
When
the two witnesses have finished
their
testimony,
the
beast
that
comes up
from
the
Abyss
will wage
war
with
them,
and
will overpower
and
kill
them.
Their
bodies
will lie in
the
street
of
the
great
city—
figuratively
called
Sodom
and
Egypt—
where
their
Lord
was also crucified.
For three
and
a half
days
all
peoples
and
tribes
and
tongues
and
nations
will view
their
bodies
and
will not permit
them
to be laid
in
a tomb.
And
those who
dwell
on
the
earth
will gloat
over
them,
and
will celebrate
and
send
one another
gifts,
because
these
two
prophets
had tormented
them.
But
after
the
three
and
a half
days,
the breath
of life
from
God
entered
the two witnesses,
and
they stood
on
their
feet,
and
great
fear
fell
upon
those who
saw
them.
And
the witnesses heard
a loud
voice
from
heaven
saying,
“Come up
here.”
And
they went up
to
heaven
in
a
cloud
as
their
enemies
watched
them.
And
in
that
hour
there was
a great
earthquake,
and
a
tenth
of the
city
collapsed.
Seven
thousand
were killed
in
the
quake,
and
the
rest
were
terrified
and
gave
glory
to the
God
of
heaven.
Then
the
seventh
angel
sounded his trumpet,
and
loud
voices
called out
in
heaven:
“The
kingdom
of the
world
has become
the kingdom
of our
Lord
and
of
His
Christ,
and
He will reign
forever
and
ever."
And
the
twenty-four
elders
who
sit
on
their
thrones
before
God
fell
on
their
faces
and
worshiped
God,
saying:
“We give thanks
to You,
O Lord
God
Almighty,
the One who
is
and
who
was;
You have taken
Your
great
power
and
begun to reign.
The
nations
were enraged,
and
Your
wrath
has come.
The
time has come
to judge
the
dead,
and
to reward
Your
servants,
the
prophets
and
saints,
and
those who
fear
Your
name,
both
small
and
great,
and
to destroy
those who
destroy
the
earth."
Then
the
temple
of God
in
heaven
was opened,
and
the
ark
of
His
covenant
appeared
in
His
temple.
And
there were
flashes of lightning,
and
rumblings,
and
peals of thunder,
and
an earthquake,
and
a great
hailstorm.