Isaiah 2:1-4

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God’s Universal Reign

2 The word which ^(A)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²Now it will come about that
^(B)In the last days
The ^(C)mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established ^[a]as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And ^(D)all the nations will stream to it.
³And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
So that He may teach us ^[b]about His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For ^[c]the law will go out ^(E)from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴And He will judge between the nations,
And will mediate for many peoples;
And ^(F)they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives.
^(G)Nation will not lift up a sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 2:2 Lit on
Isaiah 2:3 Or some of
Isaiah 2:3 Or instruction

Micah 4

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Peaceful Latter Days

4 And it will come about in the ^(A)last days
That the ^(B)mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established ^[a]as the chief of the mountains.
It will be raised above the hills,
And the ^(C)peoples will stream to it.
²^(D)Many nations will come and say,
“^(E)Come and let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord
And to the house of the God of Jacob,
So that ^(F)He may teach us about His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For ^(G)from Zion will go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
³And He will ^(H)judge between many peoples
And render decisions for mighty, ^[b]distant nations.
Then they will beat their swords ^(I)into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation will not lift a sword against nation,
And never again will they ^[c]train for war.
⁴Instead, each of them will ^(J)sit under his vine
And under his fig tree,
With ^(K)no one to make them afraid,
Because the ^(L)mouth of the Lord of armies has spoken.
⁵Though all the peoples walk,
Each in the ^(M)name of his god,
As for us, ^(N)we will walk
In the name of the ^(O)Lord our God forever and ever.

⁶“On that day,” declares the Lord,
“I will assemble those who ^(P)limp
And ^(Q)gather the scattered,
Those whom I have afflicted.
⁷I will make those who limp a ^(R)remnant,
And those who ^[d]have strayed a mighty nation,
And the ^(S)Lord will reign over them on Mount Zion
From now on and forever.
⁸As for you, ^[e]^(T)tower of the flock,
^[f]Hill of the daughter of Zion,
To you it will come—
Yes, the ^(U)former dominion will come,
The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

⁹“Now, why do you ^(V)cry out loudly?
Is there no king among you,
Or has your ^(W)counselor perished,
That agony has gripped you like a woman in childbirth?
¹⁰^(X)Writhe and scream,
Daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in childbirth;
For now you will ^(Y)go out of the city,
Live in the field,
And go to Babylon.
^(Z)There you will be rescued,
^(AA)There the Lord will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
¹¹And now ^(AB)many nations have been assembled against you
Who say, ‘Let her be defiled,
And let our eyes ^[g]gloat over Zion!’
¹²But they do not ^(AC)know the thoughts of the Lord,
And they do not understand His plan;
For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
¹³Arise and ^(AD)thresh, daughter of Zion,
For I will make your horn iron,
And I will make your hoofs bronze,
So that you may ^(AE)pulverize many peoples,
And ^(AF)dedicate to the Lord their unjust profit,
And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Footnotes

Micah 4:1 Lit on
Micah 4:3 Lit at a distance
Micah 4:3 Lit learn
Micah 4:7 Or are far removed
Micah 4:8 Heb Migdal-eder
Micah 4:8 Heb Ophel
Micah 4:11 Lit see with pleasure

Daniel 2:26-45

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²⁶The king said to Daniel, whose name was ^(A)Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?” ²⁷Daniel answered before the king and said, “As for the secret about which the king has inquired, neither ^(B)wise men, sorcerers, soothsayer priests, nor diviners are able to declare it to the king. ²⁸However, there is a ^(C)God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the ^[a]^(D)latter days. This was your dream and the ^(E)visions ^[b]in your mind while on your bed. ²⁹As for you, O king, while on your bed your thoughts ^[c]turned to what would take place ^[d]in the future; and ^(F)He who reveals secrets has made known to you what will take place. ³⁰But as for me, this secret has not been revealed to me ^[e]for any ^(G)wisdom ^[f]residing in me more than in any other living person, but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, and that you may understand the ^(H)thoughts of your ^[g]mind.

The King’s Dream

³¹“You, O king, were watching and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and ^[h]of extraordinary radiance, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was ^[i]^(I)awesome. ³²The ^(J)head of that statue was made of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, ³³its legs of iron, and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. ³⁴You ^[j]continued watching until a ^(K)stone was broken off ^(L)without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and ^(M)crushed them. ³⁵Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed to pieces ^[k]all at the same time, and they were ^(N)like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that ^(O)not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great ^(P)mountain and filled the entire earth.

The Interpretation—Babylon the First Kingdom

³⁶“This was the dream; and now we will tell ^(Q)its interpretation before the king. ³⁷You, O king, are the ^(R)king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the ^[l]kingdom, the ^(S)power, the strength, and the honor; ³⁸and wherever the sons of mankind live, or the ^(T)animals of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has handed them over to you and has made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.

Medo-Persia and Greece

³⁹And after you another kingdom will arise inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

Rome

⁴⁰Then there will be a ^(U)fourth kingdom as strong as iron; just as iron smashes and crushes everything, so, like iron that crushes, it will smash and crush all these things. ⁴¹And in that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have within it some of the toughness of iron, since you saw the iron mixed with ^[m]common clay. ⁴²And just as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong, and part of it will be fragile. ⁴³In that you saw the iron mixed with ^[n]common clay, they will combine with one another ^[o]in ^[p]their descendants; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not combine with pottery.

The Divine Kingdom

⁴⁴And in the days of those kings the ^(V)God of heaven will ^(W)set up a ^(X)kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be ^[q]left for another people; it will ^(Y)crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. ⁴⁵Just as you saw that a ^(Z)stone was broken off from the mountain without hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the ^(AA)great God has made known to the king what ^(AB)will take place ^[r]in the future; so the dream is certain and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

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Footnotes

Daniel 2:28 Lit end of the days
Daniel 2:28 Lit of your head
Daniel 2:29 Lit came up
Daniel 2:29 Lit after this
Daniel 2:30 Or through
Daniel 2:30 Lit which is
Daniel 2:30 Lit heart
Daniel 2:31 Lit its radiance was extraordinary
Daniel 2:31 Or dreadful
Daniel 2:34 Lit were
Daniel 2:35 Lit as one
Daniel 2:37 Or sovereignty
Daniel 2:41 Lit wet clay
Daniel 2:43 Lit wet clay
Daniel 2:43 Or with
Daniel 2:43 Lit the seed of men
Daniel 2:44 Or passed on to
Daniel 2:45 Lit after this

Revelation 12:13-14

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¹³And when the ^(A)dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted ^(B)the woman who gave birth to the male Child. ¹⁴But the ^(C)two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly ^(D)into the wilderness to her place, where she *was nourished for ^(E)a time, times, and half a time, away from the presence of the serpent.

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Revelation 17:1-7

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The Doom of Babylon

17 ^(A)Then one of the ^(B)seven angels who had the ^(C)seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you ^(D)the judgment of the ^(E)great prostitute who ^(F)sits on many waters, ²with whom ^(G)the kings of the earth committed acts of sexual immorality, and ^(H)those who live on the earth ^(I)became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.” ³And ^(J)he carried me away ^[a]^(K)in the Spirit ^(L)into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a ^(M)scarlet beast, full of ^(N)blasphemous names, having ^(O)seven heads and ten horns. ⁴The woman ^(P)was clothed in purple and scarlet, and ^[b]adorned with gold, precious ^[c]stones, and pearls, holding in her hand ^(Q)a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her sexual immorality, ⁵and on her forehead a name was written, ^[d]a ^(R)mystery: “^(S)BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF ^(T)THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” ⁶And I saw the woman drunk with ^(U)the blood of the ^[e]saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered ^[f]greatly. ⁷And the angel said to me, “Why ^[g]do you wonder? I will tell you the ^(V)mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the ^(W)seven heads and the ten horns.