Revelation 11

¹ I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told: "Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there.

² But exclude the courtyard outside the temple; do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations. They will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

³ And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

⁴ These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

⁵ If anyone tries to harm them, fire pours from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.

⁶ These two have power to shut up the sky so that no rain falls during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

⁷ When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war against them, conquer them, and kill them.

⁸ Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

⁹ For three and a half days, people from every nation, tribe, language, and ethnic group will gaze at their bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb.

¹⁰ Those who live on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate, sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

¹¹ But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

¹² Then they heard a loud voice from heaven say to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.

¹³ At that very hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁴ The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.

¹⁵ The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices in heaven were saying:
"The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,
and he will reign forever and ever."

¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,

¹⁷ saying:
"We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty,
the One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and begun to reign.

¹⁸ The nations raged,
but your wrath has come,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and to reward your servants the prophets,
your holy people, and those who fear your name,
both small and great,
and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

¹⁹ Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.