﻿Revelation.
Chapter 11.
I was given a reed like a rod and was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it. 
But leave out the courtyard outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. 
I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” 
These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 
If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. If anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way. 
They have authority to shut the sky so that no rain falls during the days of their prophecy. They also have authority over the waters to turn them to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish. 
When they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war against them and overcome them and kill them. 
Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified. 
Those from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and they do not allow their bodies to be placed in a tomb. 
Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them and celebrate, and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. 
After the three and a half days, a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who watched them. 
They heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up into heaven in the cloud, while their enemies watched them. 
In 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. 
The second woe has passed. Look, the third woe is coming soon. 
The 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.” 
The twenty-four elders seated on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 
saying, “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and begun to reign. 
The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to your slaves the prophets, to the saints, and to those who fear your name, small and great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” 
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple. There were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and great hail. 
