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The horses had heads like lions, and fire and
smoke and burning sulfur billowed from their
mouths. 18 One-third of all the people on earth
were killed by these three plagues—by the fire
and smoke and burning sulfur that came from
the mouths of the horses. 19 Their power was in
their mouths and in their tails. For their tails
had heads like snakes, with the power to injure
people.
20 But the people who did not die in these
plagues still refused to repent of their evil deeds
and turn to God. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze,
stone, and wood—idols that can neither see
nor hear nor walk! 21 And they did not repent of
their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual
immorality or their thefts.
— promises —
from God
“God’s mysterious plan will
be fulfilled. It will happen
just as he announced it to
his servants the prophets.”
R E V E L AT I O N 10:7
The Angel and the Small Scroll
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by
a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face
shone like the sun, and his feet were like pillars of fire. 2 And in his hand was a small scroll*
that had been opened. He stood with his right
foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.
3 And he gave a great shout like the roar of a
lion. And when he shouted, the seven thunders answered.
4 When the seven thunders spoke, I was about
to write. But I heard a voice from heaven saying,
“Keep secret* what the seven thunders said,
and do not write it down.”
5 Then the angel I saw standing on the sea
and on the land raised his right hand toward
heaven. 6 He swore an oath in the name of the
one who lives forever and ever, who created the
heavens and everything in them, the earth and
everything in it, and the sea and everything
in it. He said, “There will be no more delay.
7 When the seventh angel blows his trumpet,
God’s mysterious plan will be fulfilled. It will
happen just as he announced it to his servants
the prophets.”
8 Then the voice from heaven spoke to me
again: “Go and take the open scroll from the
hand of the angel who is standing on the sea
and on the land.”
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9 So I went to the angel and told him to give
me the small scroll. “Yes, take it and eat it,” he
said. “It will be sweet as honey in your mouth,
but it will turn sour in your stomach!” 10 So I
took the small scroll from the hand of the angel,
and I ate it! It was sweet in my mouth, but when
I swallowed it, it turned sour in my stomach.
11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy again
about many peoples, nations, languages, and
kings.”
The Two Witnesses
Then I was given a measuring stick, and I
was told, “Go and measure the Temple of
God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers. 2 But do not measure the outer courtyard, for it has been turned over to the nations.
They will trample the holy city for 42 months.
3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and
they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy
during those 1,260 days.”
4 These two prophets are the two olive trees
and the two lampstands that stand before the
Lord of all the earth. 5 If anyone tries to harm
them, fire flashes from their mouths and consumes their enemies. This is how anyone who
tries to harm them must die. 6 They have power
to shut the sky so that no rain will fall for as
long as they prophesy. And they have the power
to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to
strike the earth with every kind of plague as
often as they wish.
7 When they complete their testimony, the
beast that comes up out of the bottomless pit*
will declare war against them, and he will conquer them and kill them. 8 And their bodies will
lie in the main street of Jerusalem,* the city that
is figuratively called “Sodom” and “Egypt,” the
city where their Lord was crucified. 9 And for
three and a half days, all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will stare at their bodies.
No one will be allowed to bury them. 10 All the
people who belong to this world will gloat over
them and give presents to each other to celebrate the death of the two prophets who had
tormented them.
11 But after three and a half days, God
breathed life into them, and they stood up!
Terror struck all who were staring at them.
12 Then a loud voice from heaven called to the
two prophets, “Come up here!” And they rose
to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched.
13 At the same time there was a terrible earthquake that destroyed a tenth of the city. Seven
thousand people died in that earthquake, and
everyone else was terrified and gave glory to the
God of heaven.
14 The second terror is past, but look, the third
terror is coming quickly.
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10:2 Or book; also in 10:8, 9, 10. 10:4 Greek Seal up. 11:7 Or
the abyss, or the underworld. 11:8 Greek the great city.