Revelation 11

¹ I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Get up and measure God’s sanctuary and the altar, and count those who worship there.

² But leave out the courtyard outside the sanctuary; do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

³ And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”

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

⁵ If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. If anyone wants to harm them, that is how he must be killed.

⁶ 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 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 rises from the abyss will wage war against them, conquer them, and kill them.

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

⁹ Some people from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their bodies to be placed in a tomb.

¹⁰ Those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.

¹¹ 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 saw them.

¹² They heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.

¹³ At that moment there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and those who remained were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

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

¹⁵ The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard 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 And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell facedown and worshiped God,

¹⁷ saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, you who are and who were, because you have taken up your great power and begun to reign.

¹⁸ The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and for you to reward your servants the prophets, the holy ones, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

¹⁹ Then God’s sanctuary in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his sanctuary. There were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

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