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REVELATION, XX.

December 30.

make war. His eyes were as ther unto the supper of the a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was cloth­ed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is call­ed The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he tread­eth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Al­mighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their ar­mies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burn­ing with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword pro­ceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Ver. 17. And I saw an an­gel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves toge­

CHAPTER XX. December 30, Morning.

them that were beheaded down from heaven, hav- for the witness of Jesus, and ing the key of the bottom- for the word of God, and less pit and a great chain in which had not worshipped his hand. And he laid hold the beast, neither his image, on the dragon, that old ser- neither had received his mark pent, which is the Devil, and upon their foreheads, or in Satan, and bound him a thou- their hands; and they lived sand years, and cast him into and reigned with Christ a the bottomless pit, and shut thousand years. But the rest him up, and set a seal upon of the dead lived not again him, that he should deceive until the thousand years were the nations no more, till the finished. This is the first re­thousand years should be surrection. Blessed and holy fulfilled: and after that he is he that hath part in the must be loosed a little sea- first resurrection: on such son. And I saw thrones, and the second death hath no they sat upon them, and power, but they shall be judgment was given unto priests of God and of Christ, them: and I saw the souls and shall reign with him a