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          DASV: Revelation 11    

1 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and I was told,
"Get up and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who
worship in it.
2 But do not measure the outer courtyard of the temple,
for it has been given to the nations, and they will trample
on the holy city for forty-two months.
3 I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will
prophesy 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."
4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing
before the Lord of the earth.
5 If anyone tries to hurt them, fire comes out of their
mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone tries to hurt
them this is how they will die.
6 These two have the power to shut heaven, so that it does
not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power
over the waters to turn them to 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 out of the bottomless pit will make war against
them, conquer and kill them.
8 Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great
city, which symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also their Lord was crucified.
9 For three and a half days those from various peoples,
tribes, languages and nations will stare at their dead
bodies refusing to bury them.
10 The inhabitants of the earth will rejoice over them,
and celebrate and send gifts to each other, 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.
Those who saw it were terrified.
12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven telling them,
"Come up here." So they went up into heaven in the 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 rest were terrified and
gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past. Look, the third woe is coming
quickly.

15 Then the seventh angel blew 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."
16 Then the twenty-four elders, who sit before God on their
thrones, fell on their faces and worshipped God,
17 saying,
      "We thank you, O Lord God Almighty,
           who is and who was,
     because you have taken your great power
           and have begun to reign.
18 The nations raged,
           and your wrath came,
                and the time for the dead to be judged has arrived,
     as well as the time to reward your servants
           the prophets and the saints,
                and those who fear your name,
                both the small and the great
and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
19 Then the temple of God that is in heaven was opened; and the
ark of the covenant was seen in his temple; and there were
flashes of lightning, rumblings and crashes of thunder,
and an earthquake, along with a great hailstorm.

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