两位见证人

11 有一根杆子赐给我当量尺,同时有声音吩咐我说:“起来,量一量上帝的殿和祭坛,并数点在殿里敬拜的人。 你不用量圣殿的外院,因为这部分已经给了外族人,他们要践踏圣城四十二个月。 我要赐权柄给我的两个见证人,他们将身穿麻衣,传道一千二百六十天。”

这两位见证人就是竖立在世界之主面前的那两棵橄榄树和两座灯台。 若有人要伤害他们,他们便从口中喷出火焰,烧灭敌人;若有人企图加害他们,必定会这样被杀。 他们拥有权能,在传道期间可以关闭天空使雨不降在地上,又有权使水变成血,并随时用各样的灾祸击打世界。

当他们做完见证以后,从无底坑上来的兽要和他们交战,并战胜他们,把他们杀掉。 他们便陈尸在大城的街上,这大城按寓意名叫所多玛,又名埃及,是他们的主被钉在十字架上的地方。 三天半之久,他们的尸体不得埋葬,各民族、各部落、各语言族群、各国家的人都观看他们的尸体。 10 地上万民便兴高采烈,互相送礼道贺,因为这两位先知曾使地上的人受苦。

11 三天半过后,上帝的生命之气进入二人里面,他们便站立起来。看见的人都害怕极了! 12 接着天上有大声音呼唤他们说:“上这里来!”他们就在敌人的注视下驾云升上天去。 13 就在那一刻,发生了强烈的地震,那座城的十分之一倒塌了,因地震死亡的共七千人,生还者都在恐惧中将荣耀归给天上的上帝。

14 第二样灾难过去了,第三样灾难又接踵而来!

第七位天使吹号

15 第七位天使吹响号角的时候,天上有大声音说:“世上的国度现在已经属于我们的主和祂所立的基督了。祂要做王,直到永永远远。” 16 在上帝面前,坐在自己座位上的二十四位长老都一同俯伏敬拜上帝,说:

17 “主啊!昔在、今在的全能上帝啊!
我们感谢你,
因你已施展大能做王了。
18 世上的列国曾向你发怒,
现在是你向他们发烈怒的日子了。
时候已到,你要审判死人,
你要赏赐你的奴仆、先知、圣徒
和一切不论尊卑敬畏你名的人,
你要毁灭那些毁坏世界的人。”

19 那时,天上上帝的圣殿敞开了,殿内的约柜清晰可见,又有闪电、巨响、雷鸣、地震和大冰雹。

11 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and it was said to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar and them that adore therein.

But the court, which is without the temple, cast out, and measure it not: because it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city they shall tread under foot two and forty months:

And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks, that stand before the Lord of the earth.

And if any man will hurt them, fire shall come out of their mouths, and shall devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, in this manner must he be slain.

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and they have power over waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues as often as they will.

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

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

And they of the tribes, and peoples, and tongues, and nations, shall see their bodies for three days and a half: and they shall not suffer their bodies to be laid in sepulchres.

10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth.

11 And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them. And they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them that saw them.

12 And they heard a great voice from heaven, saying to them: Come up hither. And they went up to heaven in a cloud: and their enemies saw them.

13 And at that hour there was made a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell: and there were slain in the earthquake names of men seven thousand: and the rest were cast into a fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second woe is past: and behold the third woe will come quickly.

15 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.

16 And the four and twenty ancients, who sit on their seats in the sight of God, fell on their faces and adored God, saying:

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

18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest render reward to thy servants the prophets and the saints, and to them that fear thy name, little and great, and shouldest destroy them who have corrupted the earth.

19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake, and great hail.