December 24.

December 24.

REVELATION, XIV.

beast, or the number of his beast: for it is the number name. Here is wisdom. Let of a man; and his number him that hath understand- is Six hundred threescore ing count the number of the and six.

CHAPTER XIV. December 24, Morning. Saint Michael and all Angels, Evening, ver. 14.

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ND I looked, and, lo,| saying, Babylon is fallen, is a Lamb stood on the fallen, that great city, be­mount Sion, and with him cause she made all nations an hundred forty and four drink of the wine of the thousand, having his Father's wrath of her fornication. name written in their fore- And the third angel follow­heads. And I heard a voice ed them, saying with a loud from heaven, as the voice of voice, If any man worship many waters, and as the voice the beast and his image, and of a great thunder: and I receive his mark in his fore­heard the voice of harpers head, or in his hand, the same harping with their harps: shall drink of the wine of the and they sung as it were a wrath of God, which is pour­new song before the throne, ed out without mixture into and before the four beasts, the cup of his indignation; and the elders: and no man and he shall be tormented could learn that song but with fire and brimstone in the hundred and forty and the presence of the holy an­four thousand, which were gels, and in the presence of redeemed from the earth. the Lamb: and the smoke These are they which were of their torment ascendeth not defiled with women; for up for ever and ever: and they are virgins. These are they have no rest day nor they which follow the Lamb night, who worship the beast whithersoever he goeth. and his image, and whoso­These were redeemed from ever receiveth the mark of among men, being the first- his name. Here is the pa­fruits unto God and to the tience of the saints: here Lamb. And in their mouth are they that keep the com­was found no guile: for they mandments of God, and the are without fault before the faith of Jesus. And I heard throne of God. And I saw a voice from heaven saying another angel fly in the mi unto me, Write, Blessed are of heaven, having the ever- the dead which die in the lasting gospel to preach unto Lord from henceforth: Yea, them that dwell on the earth, saith the Spirit, that they may and to every nation, and kin- rest from their labours; and dred, and tongue, and peo- their works do follow them. ple, saying with a loud voice, Ver. 14. And I looked, and Fear God, and give glory to behold a white cloud, and him; for the hour of his upon the cloud one sat like judgment is come: and wor- unto the Son of man, having ship him that made heaven, on his head a golden crown, and earth, and the sea, and and in his hand a sharp sickle. the fountains of waters. And And another angel came out there followed another angel, of the temple, crying with a