启示录 11
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圣城遭遇践踏
11 有一根苇子赐给我当做量度的杖，且有话说：“起来，将神的殿和祭坛并在殿中礼拜的人都量一量。 2 只是殿外的院子要留下不用量，因为这是给了外邦人的，他们要践踏圣城四十二个月。 3 我要使我那两个见证人穿着毛衣，传道一千二百六十天。” 4 他们就是那两棵橄榄树，两个灯台，立在世界之主面前的。 5 若有人想要害他们，就有火从他们口中出来，烧灭仇敌。凡想要害他们的都必这样被杀。 6 这二人有权柄在他们传道的日子叫天闭塞不下雨，又有权柄叫水变为血，并且能随时随意用各样的灾殃攻击世界。 7 他们作完见证的时候，那从无底坑里上来的兽必与他们交战，并且得胜，把他们杀了。
尸首倒在街道上
8 他们的尸首就倒在大城里的街上，这城按着灵意叫所多玛，又叫埃及，就是他们的主钉十字架之处。 9 从各民、各族、各方、各国中，有人观看他们的尸首三天半，又不许把尸首放在坟墓里。 10 住在地上的人就为他们欢喜快乐，互相馈送礼物，因这两位先知曾叫住在地上的人受痛苦。
过三天半复生
11 过了这三天半，有生气从神那里进入他们里面，他们就站起来，看见他们的人甚是害怕。 12 两位先知听见有大声音从天上来，对他们说：“上到这里来！”他们就驾着云上了天，他们的仇敌也看见了。 13 正在那时候，地大震动，城就倒塌了十分之一，因地震而死的有七千人，其余的都恐惧，归荣耀给天上的神。
14 第二样灾祸过去，第三样灾祸快到了。
第七天使吹号
15 第七位天使吹号，天上就有大声音说：“世上的国成了我主和主基督的国，他要做王，直到永永远远。” 16 在神面前、坐在自己位上的二十四位长老就面伏于地，敬拜神， 17 说：“昔在、今在的主神，全能者啊！我们感谢你，因你执掌大权做王了。 18 外邦发怒，你的愤怒也临到了！审判死人的时候也到了！你的仆人众先知和众圣徒，凡敬畏你名的人，连大带小得赏赐的时候也到了！你败坏那些败坏世界之人的时候也就到了！”
19 当时，神天上的殿开了，在他殿中现出他的约柜，随后有闪电、声音、雷轰、地震、大雹。
Revelation 11
EasyEnglish Bible
God's two servants
11 Someone gave me a stick, like the sticks that people use to measure things. He told me, ‘Go and measure the size of the temple and the altar. Also count the number of people who worship God there. 2 But do not measure the yard that is outside God's house. Do not measure it, because God has given that yard to Gentiles who do not believe in him. They will stamp all over God's own city for 42 months and they will destroy it.
3 I will give authority to my two servants who speak my message clearly. They will tell people my messages for 1,260 days. They will wear rough clothes made from goats' hair.’[a]
4 These servants are the two olive trees and the two lampstands.[b] They stand in front of God who is the Lord of the earth. 5 If anyone tries to hurt them, fire comes out of the servants' mouths. This fire destroys their enemies. Anyone who wants to hurt the two servants must die in this way. 6 These servants of God have authority to shut up the sky. Then there will be no rain during the time that they tell their messages from God. They also have authority to cause the water on earth to become blood. They can cause many different kinds of trouble to happen on the earth. They can do this as often as they want to.
7 When these two servants of God have finished speaking God's messages, a wild animal will attack them. This is the animal that lives in the deep hole.[c] It will come up out of the hole. It will be stronger than the two servants and it will kill them. 8 Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city where people killed their Lord on a cross.[d] This city should be called Sodom or Egypt, because it is as bad as those places.[e]
9 People from everywhere in the world will look at the servants' dead bodies for three and a half days. Those are people from every nation, from every tribe and from every language. They will not agree to bury the bodies. 10 The people who live on the earth will be very happy because the two servants of God are now dead. They will send gifts to each other because they are so happy. These two prophets of God had caused bad trouble for them, but now they have died.
11 But after three and a half days, God breathed life into those dead bodies. They stood up. The people who saw them were very afraid. 12 Then God's two servants heard a loud voice that came from heaven. The voice said, ‘Come up here.’ They went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.[f]
13 At the same time the ground shook with a strong earthquake. One in every ten buildings in the city fell down. 7,000 people died because of the earthquake. The people who were still alive became very afraid. They praised the God of heaven and said that he is very powerful.
14 That is the second great trouble and it has now finished. But the third great trouble will come soon.
The seventh trumpet
15 The seventh angel made a sound with his trumpet. Then there was the sound of loud voices in heaven. They shouted:
‘Our Lord God and his Messiah now have all authority!
The whole world has become their kingdom.
God will rule as King for ever!’
16 The 24 leaders were sitting on their thrones in front of God. Now they threw themselves down on their faces and they worshipped God. 17 They said:
‘We thank you, Lord God, because you have all authority!
You are alive now and you have always been alive.
You have great power and now you have begun to rule the whole world!
18 The nations of the world were very angry.
But now it is time for you to be angry with them.
Now you will judge all the people who have died.
You will give good things to your servants, the prophets,
and to all your people.
You will bless everyone who respects and obeys you,
whether they are important people or not.
But you will destroy all those people who destroy the earth.
The time has now come for all this to happen.’
19 Then the door of the temple in heaven became open. Inside it, I saw God's Covenant Box.[g] There was a great storm with bright lightning and the loud noise of thunder. There was an earthquake and strong rain with stones of ice fell from the sky.
Footnotes
- 11:3 Jews wore rough cloth (sackcloth) to show that they were very upset or very sad.
- 11:4 God showed his prophet Zechariah two olive trees and a gold lampstand. See Zechariah 4.
- 11:7 We read about this deep hole in Revelation 9:1,2.
- 11:8 People killed Jesus Christ on a cross outside the city of Jerusalem in Israel. The leaders of Israel's people caused Jesus to die there. They refused to recognize him as Lord.
- 11:8 Sodom and Egypt were also places where the people did not obey God. See Genesis 18:20-21; 19:13,24-25 and Exodus 1:13-14.
- 11:12 The two servants speak God's messages to the people who are living on the earth. They may be two special people who will come one day. Or they may be like a picture of Christians all over the earth. The number two is important. Among God's people long ago, there had to be two or more people to agree that something was true. Then they could say that it had really happened. See Deuteronomy 19:15.
- 11:19 Many years ago, God told Israel's people to make a special box. He told them to keep the box in God's house. See Exodus 25:10-22. The box helped them remember God. They remembered that God had promised to live among them. He had agreed to be their God if they would obey him.
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