Book of Revelation 11
God’s two witnesses
1 Someone gave me a long stick, like the sticks that people use to measure things. ‘Go and measure God’s house. And measure the special table where people offer gifts to God’, he told me. ‘You must count the people who are *worshipping there.
2 But you must not include the yard outside God’s house. Do not measure that yard, because God has given it to the other people. Those people are not *Jews. They come from countries where nobody knows God. They will walk through the whole city where God’s people live. They will destroy it for 42 months.
3 And I will give authority to my two *witnesses. Then they will tell my messages during those 1260 days. They will wear cloth that people make from animals’ hair. These clothes show that they are sad.’
4 These *witnesses are the two *olive trees and the two *lampstands that stand in front of God. They stand in front of the *Lord of the earth.
5 If anyone tries to do something bad to them, fire comes out of the *witnesses’ mouths. And this fire destroys their enemies. The fire will kill everyone who wants to do something bad to these *witnesses.
6 These *witnesses have authority. They can shut up the sky and then it will not rain. 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. And they can send many other troubles to the earth as often as they want. note
7 When they finish speaking as God’s *witnesses, a strange animal will fight against them. This strange animal will come up out of the deep hole that has no end. And he will beat the *witnesses and he will kill them.
8 Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the powerful city where people killed their *Lord. They killed him on a cross. The name of this city might be Sodom or Egypt, because this city is as bad as those places. note
9 People from every country, from every family group and from every language will look at the *witnesses’ dead bodies. The people will look at them for 3½ days. They will refuse to let anyone bury the bodies.
10 The people on the earth will be very happy because the *witnesses are dead. They will be happy because these two *prophets had caused bad trouble for them. They will send gifts to each other because they are very happy.
11 But after 3½ days, God’s *Spirit came into those dead bodies. He caused them to become alive again. So they stood up. And the people who saw them were very afraid.
12 Then the *witnesses heard someone speak loudly to them from *heaven. ‘Come up here’, he said. So they went up to *heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.
13 At the same time the ground moved. It moved so much that one in every ten of the buildings in the city fell down. And because the ground moved, 7000 people died there. Then the other people, who were still alive, were very afraid. And they said that the God of *heaven is very great.
14 The second great trouble has finished. But the third great trouble will come soon. note
The last (seventh) *trumpet
15 The last (seventh) *angel with a *trumpet made a sound with it. Then there was the sound of loud voices in *heaven. They shouted: ‘Our *Lord and his Christ now have all authority to rule the world! God will rule always!’
16 The 24 leaders were sitting on their *thrones in front of God. And they threw themselves down on their faces and they *worshipped God.
17 They said this: ‘We thank you, *Lord God, because you have begun to rule! You are alive now and you have always been alive. You have all the power and you are using your great authority!
18 The countries that do not know you were very angry. But now you are showing that you are very angry with them. You will decide what is fair for all the people who have died. You will give your servants what they ought to have. Your servants include the *prophets and everyone who really believes you. Some of your servants are strong, important people, and some are not. Now you will destroy all those who destroy the earth.’
19 Then they opened God’s house in *heaven. And I saw God’s special covenant box inside it. Then there were the bright lights and loud noises of a storm. The ground moved a lot and much hard rain fell from the sky. It was just like stones falling. note
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