Aug 28, 2016
Revelation 11:1-14
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told,
“Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who
worship there, 2 but do not measure the court outside the temple;
leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will
trample the holy city for forty-two months. 3 And I will grant
authority to my two witnesses,and they will prophesy for 1,260
days, clothed in sackcloth.” 4 These are the two olive trees and
the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And
if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and
consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he
is doomed to be killed. 6 They have the power to shut the sky, that
no rain may 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 kind of plague, as often as they desire. 7 And
when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from
the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill
them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great
city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord
was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from the peoples
and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies
and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10 and those who dwell
on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange
presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those
who dwell on the earth. 11 But after the three and a half days a
breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their
feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 Then they heard
a loud voice from Heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they
went up to Heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13
And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the
city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and
the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of Heaven. 14 The
second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.