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Revelation 11

1 And to me was given [a] reed like [a] rod, and the angel stood, saying: Be arising and measure the temple of God and the altar and those worshipping in it. 2 And the outer court of the temple, throw out and you may not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will tread on the holy city forty-two months. 3 And I will give [power] to my two witnesses, and they will prophecy one thousand two hundred and sixty days wearing sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the face of the Lord of the land. 5 And if anyone wishes to injure them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and consumes their enemy. And if anyone wishes to injure them, thus must he be killed. 6 These have authority to shut heaven, in order that rain be not falling during the days of the prophecy, and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the land with every plague as often as they want. 7 And when they complete their testimony, the wild-beast having come up from the abyss1 will make war with them and will overcome them and will kill them. 8 And their corpses [shall lie] upon the streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified. 9 And they of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their corpses three days and a half, and they do not allow their corpses to placed in graves. 10 And those dwelling upon the land rejoice over them and are happy, and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those dwelling on the land. 11 And after three days and a half the spirit of zoe-life2 from the Lord entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them. 12 And they heard [a] great voice from heaven saying to them: Come up here. And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them. 13 And in that hour came to pass [a] great earthquake, and a tenth of the cities fell, and [the] names of seven thousand men were killed in the earthquake, and the rest became terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14 The second woe has departed. Behold the third woe comes swiftly. 15 And the seventh angel trumpeted, and great voices came to pass in heaven, saying:
The kingdom of the word has become [the kingdom] of our Lord,
And of his Christ, and he will be king to the eternity of eternities.

16 And the twenty four elders, those having sat before God upon their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God 17 saying:

We thank you, O Lord God almighty,
[who] is and [who] was, that you have taken your great power,
And you have been king,
18 And the nations were enraged,
And your wrath came and the opportune-time3 of the dead to be judged,
And to give the reward to your slaves the prophets
And to the holy [ones] and to those fearing your name,
The small and the great,
And to destroy those destroying the land.

19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen the ark of his contract4 in his temple, and there came to pass lightnings and sounds and thunders and [an] earthquake and great hail.


1or "underworld"

2from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.

3KAIROS (καιρoς ) `opportune time', `proper time', `season'

4or "covenant", "testament"