The Two Witnesses
1Then I was given a measuring reed like a staff, and I was told, “Rise, and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who worship there. 2But leave out the courtyard outside the temple; do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. 3And I will grant power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth.” 4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and consumes their enemies; anyone who wants to harm them must be killed in this way. 6They have authority to shut the sky, so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they wish. 7When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them, conquer them, and kill them. 8Their bodies will lie in the main square of the great city that is called, prophetically, Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9For three and a half days, people from every people, tribe, language, and nation will gaze at their bodies and refuse to let them be laid in a tomb. 10Those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets had tormented those who dwell on the earth. 11But after the three and a half days, a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, as their enemies watched them. 13At 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. 14The second woe has passed. Look, the third woe is coming soon.
The Seventh Trumpet
15The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.” 16And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign. 18The nations raged, and your wrath has come. The time has come for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying those who destroy the earth.” 19Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared within his temple. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
