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REVELATION, XI.
CHAPTER XI. December 23, Morning.
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a reed like unto a rod: the earth shall rejoice over and the angel stood, saying, them, and make merry, and Rise, and measure the tem- shall send gifts one to anople of God, and the altar, and ther; because these two prothem that worship therein. phets tormented them that But the court which is with- dwelt on the earth. And out the temple leave out, after three days and an half and measure it not; for it the Spirit of life from God is given unto the Gentiles: entered into them, and they and the holy city shall they stood upon their feet; and tread under foot forty and great fear fell upon them two months. And I will give which saw them. And they power unto my two witness- heard a great voice from es, and they shall prophesy a heaven saying unto them, thousand two hundred and Come up hither. And they threescore days, clothed in ascended up to heaven in a sackcloth. These are the two cloud; and their enemies olive trees, and the two can- beheld them. And the same dlesticks standing before the hour was there a great earthGod of the earth. And if any quake, and the tenth part of man will hurt them, fire pro- the city fell, and in the earthceedeth out of their mouth, quake were slain of men
and devoureth their enemies: seven thousand: and the and if any man will hurt remnant were affrighted, and them, he must in this man- gave glory to the God of heaner be killed. These have ven. The second woe is past; power to shut heaven, that it and, behold, the third woe rain not in the days of their cometh quickly. And the prophecy: and have power seventh angel sounded; and over waters to turn them to there were great voices in blood, and to smite the earth heaven, saying, The kingwith all plagues, as often as doms of this world are bethey will. And when they come the kingdoms of our shall have finished their tes- Lord, and of his Christ; and timony, the beast that as- he shall reign for ever and cendeth out of the bottomless ever. And the four and pit shall make war against twenty elders, which sat bethem, and shall overcome fore God on their seats, fell them, and kill them. And upon their faces, and wortheir dead bodies shall lie in shipped God, saying, We the street of the great city, give thee thanks, O Lord which spiritually is called God Almighty, which art, Sodom and Egypt, where and wast, and art to come; also our Lord was crucified. because thou hast taken to And they of the people and thee thy great power, and kindreds and tongues and hast reigned. And the nanations shall see their dead tions were angry, and thy bodies three days and an half, wrath is come, and the time and shall not suffer their dead of the dead, that they should bodies to be put in graves. be judged, and that thou
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