Revelation Chapter 11

The Two Witnesses

¹ I received a measuring rod like a staff. “Measure God’s sanctuary, the altar, and the worshipers. ² Don’t measure the court outside the sanctuary because the Gentiles have received it, and they’ll trample the Holy City underfoot for 42 months. ³ I’ll authorize my two witnesses to prophecy for those 1260 days in burlap and ashes.” ⁴ They’re two olive trees, two lampstands in front of the Lord of the earth. ⁵ If anybody tries to injure them, fire will come out of their mouths and burn them up. ⁶ During the time they prophesy, they’ll have authority to keep it from raining, to turn water into blood, to strike the earth with any plague as often as they like. ⁷ When they’ve finished speaking for God, the beast from the abyss will attack them, conquer, and kill them. ⁸ Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified. ⁹ People from tribes, languages, and nations will look at their corpses for 3½ days and won’t let them be buried. ¹⁰ They’ll celebrate and send gifts to each other because those two prophets had tormented them. ¹¹ After 3½ days, breath from God will return, and they’ll stand up and terrify everyone that sees them. ¹² I heard a loud voice from heaven tell them, “Come up here”; and they went up in a cloud while their enemies watched. ¹³ Then a severe earthquake made a tenth of the city fall; 7,000 people died in the earthquake. Fear overwhelmed the rest, and they praised the God of heaven.                                                                                                                             

¹⁴ The second woe is over. The third’s coming soon.

Rev 11:1-14

The Seventh Trumpet/The Third Woe

            ¹⁵ The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices from heaven said,

                        “The kingdom of this world has become

the kingdom of our LORD and his Christ^Messiah,

and he’ll reign forevermore.”                         

¹⁶ The 24 elders on their thrones in front of God fell on their faces and worshiped him,

                        ¹⁷ “Thank you, LORD God Almighty, who is and was,

                                    because you’ve assumed power and begun to reign.

                        ¹⁸ The nations raged, and your anger came.

                         The time came for judging the dead,

                                    the time for rewarding your servants the prophets and saints—

those who respect you from least to greatest;

                                    the time for destroying those who destroy the world.”

¹⁹ God’s sanctuary in heaven opened, and the Ark of the Covenant became visible there. There came lightning flashes, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a severe hailstorm.                                                                                                   

Rev 11:14-19