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REVELATION
CHAPTER
1
1
The Reuelation of Iesus Christ, which God gaue vnto him, to shewe vnto his
seruants things which must shortly come to passe; and he sent and signified it
by his Angel vnto his seruant Iohn,
2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimonie of Iesus Christ, and
of all things that he saw.
3 Blessed is hee that readeth, and they that heare the words of this prophesie,
and keepe those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
4 Iohn to the seuen Churches in Asia, Grace be vnto you, & peace, from him
which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seuen spirits which
are before his throne:
5 And from Iesus Christ, who is the faithful witnesse, and the first begotten of
the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth: vnto him that loued vs, and
washed vs from our sinnes in his owne blood,
6 And hath made vs Kings and Priests vnto God and his Father: to him be glory
and dominion for euer and euer, Amen.
7 Behold he commeth with clouds, and euery eye shal see him, and they also which
pearced him: and all kinreds of the earth shall waile because of him: euen so.
Amen.
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is,
and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
9 I Iohn, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the
kingdome and patience of Iesus Christ, was in the Isle that is called
Patmos
, for the word of God, and for the testimonie of Iesus Christ.
10 I was in the spirit on the Lords day, and heard behind me a great voice, as
of a trumpet,
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and what thou seest,
write in a booke, and send it vnto the seuen Churches which are in Asia, vnto
Ephesus, and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pergamos, and vnto Thyatira, and vnto Sardis,
and Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with mee. And being turned, I saw
seuen golden Candlesticks,
13 And in the midst of the seuen candlestickes, one like vnto the Sonne of man,
clothed with a garment downe to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden
girdle.
14 His head, and his haires were white like wooll as white as snow, and his eyes
were as a flame of fire,
15 And his feet like vnto fine brasse, as if they burned in a furnace: and his
voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And hee had in his right hand seuen starres: and out of his mouth went a
sharpe two edged sword: and his countenance was as the Sunne shineth in his
strength.
17 And when I sawe him, I fell at his feete as dead: and hee laid his right hand
vpon me, saying vnto mee, Feare not, I am the first, and the last.
18 I am hee that liueth, and was dead: and behold, I am aliue for euermore,
Amen, and haue the keyes of hell and of death.
19 Write the things which thou hast seene, and the things which are, and the
things which shall be hereafter,
20 The mysterie of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my right hand, and the
seuen golden Candlestickes. The seuen Starres are the Angels of the seuen
Churches: and the seuen candlestickes which thou sawest, are the seuen Churches.
CHAPTER
2
1 Vnto the Angel of the church of Ephesus, write, These things saith he that
holdeth the seuen starres in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the
seuen golden Candlesticks:
2 I know thy workes, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not
beare them which are euil, and thou hast tried them which say they are Apostles,
and are not, and hast found them lyers:
3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my Names sake hast laboured, and
hast not fainted.
4 Neuerthelesse, I haue somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first
loue.
5 Remember therfore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and doe the first
workes, or else I will come vnto thee quickly, and will remoue thy Candlesticke
out of his place, except thou repent.
6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I
also hate.
7 Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches:
To him that ouercommeth will I giue to eate of the tree of life, which is in the
middest of the Paradise of God.
8 And vnto the Angel of the Church in Smyrna, write, These things saith the
first and the last, which was dead, and is aliue,
9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and pouertie, but thou art rich, and I know
the blasphemie of them which say they are Iewes and are not, but are the
Synagogue of Satan.
10 Feare none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the deuill shal
cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and yee shall haue
tribulation tenne dayes: bee thou faithfull vnto death, and I will giue thee a
crowne of life.
11 He that hath an eare, let him heare what the spirit saith vnto the churches.
He that ouercommeth, shall not be hurt of the second death.
12 And to the Angel of the Church in Pergamos, write, These things saith hee,
which hath the sharpe sword with two edges:
13 I know thy workes, and where thou dwellest, euen where Satans seat is, and
thou holdest fast my Name, and hast not denied my faith, euen in those daies,
wherein Antipas was my faithful Martyr, who was slaine among you, where Satan
dwelleth.
14 But I haue a fewe things against thee, because thou hast there them that
holde the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling blocke before
the children of
Israel
, to eate things sacrificed vnto idoles, and to commit fornication.
15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing
I hate.
16 Repent, or else I will come vnto thee quickly, and wil fight against them
with the sword of my mouth.
17 Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
To him that ouercommeth will I giue to eate of the hidden Manna, and will giue
him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth,
sauing hee that receiueth it.
18 And vnto the Angel of the church in Thyatira, write, These things saith the
Sonne of God, who hath his eyes like vnto a flame of fire, and his feete are
like fine brasse:
19 I know thy works, and charitie, and seruice, and faith, and thy patience, and
thy workes, and the last to bee more then the first.
20 Notwithstanding, I haue a few things against thee, because thou sufferest
that woman Iezebel, which calleth herselfe a Prophetesse, to teach and to seduce
my seruants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed vnto idoles.
21 And I gaue her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her,
into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death, and all the Churches shall know that
I am hee which searcheth the reines and hearts: and I will giue vnto euery one
of you according to your workes.
24 But vnto you I say, and vnto the rest in Thyatira, as many as haue not this
doctrine, and which haue not knowen the depthes of Satan, as they speake, I will
put vpon you none other burden:
25 But that which ye haue already, hold fast till I come.
26 And hee that ouercommeth, and keepeth my workes vnto the ende, to him will I
giue power ouer the nations:
27 (And he shall rule them with a rod of yron: as the vessels of a potter shall
they be broken to shiuers:) euen as I receiued of my Father.
28 And I will giue him the morning starre.
29 He that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
CHAPTER
3
1 And vnto the Angel of the Church in Sardis write, These things saith he that
hath the seuen Spirits of God, & the seuen starres; I know thy workes, that
thou hast a name that thou liuest, and art dead.
2 Be watchfull, and strengthen the things which remaine, that are ready to die:
for I haue not found thy works perfect before God.
3 Remember therefore, how thou hast receiued and heard, and hold fast, and
repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thiefe, and
thou shalt not know what houre I will come vpon thee.
4 Thou hast a few names euen in
Sardis
, which haue not defiled their garments, and they shall walke with me in white:
for they are worthy.
5 Hee that ouercommeth, the same shalbe clothed in white raiment, and I will not
blot out his name out of the booke of life, but I will confesse his name before
my Father, and before his Angels.
6 Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
7 And to the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write, These things saith he
that is Holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of Dauid, he that openeth,
and no man shutteth, and shutteth, and no man openeth;
8 I know thy workes: behold, I haue set before thee an open doore, and no man
can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast
not denied my Name.
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Iewes,
and are not, but doe lie: behold, I will make them to come and worship before
thy feete, and to know that I haue loued thee.
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keepe thee from
the houre of temptation, which shall come vpon all the world, to try them that
dwell vpon the earth.
11 Beholde, I come quickly, hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy
crowne.
12 Him that ouercommeth, will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God, and he
shall goe no more out: and I wil write vpon him the Name of my God, and the name
of the Citie of my God, which is new Hierusalem, which commeth downe out of
heauen from my God: And I will write vpon him my New name.
13 Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
14 And vnto the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans, write, These things saith
the Amen, the faithfull and true witnesse, the beginning of the creation of God:
15 I know thy workes, that thou art neither cold nor hot, I would thou wert cold
or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarme, and neither cold nor hot, I wil spew thee
out of my mouth:
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and haue need of
nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poore, and
blinde, and naked.
18 I counsell thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest bee
rich, and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
nakednesse doe not appeare, and anoint thine eyes with eye salue, that thou
mayest see.
19 As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the doore, and knocke: if any man heare my voyce, and open
the doore, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that ouercommeth, will I graunt to sit with mee in my throne, euen as
I also ouercame, and am set downe with my Father in his throne.
22 Hee that hath an eare, let him heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches.
CHAPTER
4
1 After this I looked, and beholde, a doore was opened in heauen: and the first
voice which I heard, was as it were of a trumpet, talking with me, which said,
Come vp hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
2 And immediatly I was in the spirit: and beholde, a Throne was set in heauen,
and one sate on the Throne.
3 And he that sate was to looke vpon like a Iasper, and a Sardine stone: and
there was a rainebow round about the Throne, in sight like vnto an Emeralde.
4 And round about the Throne were foure and twentie seates, and vpon the seates
I saw foure and twentie Elders sitting, clothed in white rayment, and they had
on their heades crownes of golde.
5 And out of the Throne proceeded lightnings, and thundrings, and voyces: and
there were seuen lampes of fire burning before the Throne, which are the seuen
Spirits of God.
6 And before the Throne there was a sea of glasse like vnto Chrystall: and in
the middest of the throne, and round about the Throne, were foure beastes full
of eyes before and behinde.
7 And the first beast was like a Lion, and the second beast like a Calfe, and
the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying Egle.
8 And the foure beasts had each of them sixe wings about him, and they were full
of eyes within, and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord
God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
9 And when those beasts giue glory, and honour, and thankes to him that sate on
the Throne, who liueth for euer and euer,
10 The foure and twentie Elders fall downe before him that sate on the Throne,
and worship him that liueth for euer and euer, and cast their crownes before the
Throne, saying,
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receiue glorie, and honour, and power: for thou
hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created.
CHAPTER
5
1 And I saw in ye right hand of him that sate on the Throne, a booke written
within, & on the backeside, sealed with seuen seales.
2 And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loude voice; Who is worthy to open
the booke, and to loose the seales thereof?
3 And no man in heauen, nor in earth, neither vnder the earth, was able to open
the booke, neither to looke thereon.
4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open, and to reade the
booke, neither to looke thereon.
5 And one of the Elders saith vnto me, Weepe not: beholde, the Lion of the tribe
of Iuda, the roote of Dauid, hath preuailed to open the booke, and to loose the
seuen seales thereof.
6 And I beheld, and loe, in the middest of the Throne, and of the foure beastes,
and in the midst of the Elders stood a Lambe as it had beene slaine, hauing
seuen hornes and seuen eyes, which are the seuen Spirits of God, sent foorth
into all the earth.
7 And he came, and tooke the booke out of the right hand of him that sate vpon
the Throne.
8 And when he had taken the booke, the foure Beasts, and foure and twenty Elders
fel down before the Lambe, hauing euery one of them harps, and golden vials full
of odours, which are the prayers of Saints.
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the Booke, and to
open the seales thereof: for thou wast slaine, and hast redeemed vs to God by
thy blood, out of euery kinred, and tongue, and people, and nation:
10 And hast made vs vnto our God Kings and Priests, and we shall reigne on the
earth.
11 And I beheld, and I heard the voyce of many Angels, round about the Throne,
and the beasts and the Elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times
tenne thousand, and thousands of thousands,
12 Saying with a lowd voice, Worthy is the Lambe that was slaine, to receiue
power, and riches, and wisedome, and strength, and honour, and glory, and
blessing.
13 And euery creature which is in heauen, and on the earth, and vnder the earth,
and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I, saying, Blessing,
honour, glory, and power bee vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne, and vnto the
Lambe for euer and euer.
14 And the foure beasts said, Amen. And the foure and twenty Elders fell downe
and worshipped him that liueth for euer and euer.
CHAPTER
6
1 And I sawe when the Lambe opened one of the seales, and I heard as it were the
noise of thunder, one of the foure beastes, saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and hee that sate on him had a bowe, and
a crowne was giuen vnto him, and hee went foorth conquering, and to conquere.
3 And when hee had opened the second seale, I heard the second beast say, Come
and see.
4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was giuen to him that
sate thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one
another: and there was giuen vnto him a great sword.
5 And when hee had opened the third seale, I heard the third beast say, Come and
see. And I beheld, and loe, a blacke horse: and hee that sate on him had a paire
of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the foure beastes say, A measure of wheate
for a penie, and three measures of barley for a penie, and see thou hurt not the
oyle and the wine.
7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth
beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was
Death, and hell followed with him: and power was giuen vnto them, ouer the
fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, & with hunger, and with death,
and with the beastes of the earth.
9 And when hee had opened the fift seale, I saw vnder the altar, the soules of
them that were slaine for the word of God, and for the testimony which they
held.
10 And they cried with a lowd voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true,
doest thou not iudge and auenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were giuen vnto euery one of them, and it was sayd vnto them,
that they should rest yet for a little season, vntill their fellow seruants
also, and their brethren that should be killed as they were, should be
fulfilled.
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixt seale, and loe, there was a great
earthquake, and the Sunne became blacke as sackecloth of haire, and the Moone
became as blood.
13 And the starres of heauen fell vnto the earth, euen as a figge tree casteth
her vntimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty winde.
14 And the heauen departed as a scrowle when it is rolled together, and euery
mountaine and
Island
were moued out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the
chiefe captaines, and the mighty men, and euery bondman, and euery free man, hid
themselues in the dennes, and in the rockes of the mountaines,
16 And said to the mountaines and rockes, Fall on vs, and hide vs from the face
of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lambe:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?
CHAPTER
7
1 And after these things, I saw foure Angels standing on the foure corners of
the Earth, holding the foure windes of the earth, that the winde should not blow
on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another Angel ascending from the East, hauing the seale of the
liuing God: and he cried with a loud voice to the foure Angels to whom it was
giuen to hurt the earth and the Sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till wee haue
sealed the seruants of our God in their foreheads.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an
hundreth and fourty and foure thousand, of all the tribes of the children of
Israel
.
5 Of the tribe of Iuda were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Ruben were
sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelue thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthali
were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelue
thousand.
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Leui were
sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Isachar were sealed twelue thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Ioseph
were sealed twelue thousand. Of the tribe of Beniamin were sealed twelue
thousand.
9 After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could nuber, of
all nations, and kindreds, and people, & tongues, stood before the throne,
& before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palmes in their hands:
10 And cryed with a loude voice, saying, Saluation to our God, which sitteth
vpon the Throne, and vnto the Lambe.
11 And all the Angels stood round about the Throne, and about the Elders, and
the foure beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glorie, and wisedome, and thankesgiuing, and
honour, & power, and might be vnto our God for euer & euer, Amen.
13 And one of the Elders answered, saying vnto mee, What are these which are
arayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said vnto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they
which came out of great tribulation, and haue washed their robes, and made them
white in the blood of the Lambe.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serue him day and night in
his
Temple
: and hee that sitteth on the Throne shal dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the Sunne
light on them, nor any heate.
17 For the Lambe, which is in the middest of the throne, shall feede them, and
shall leade them vnto liuing fountaines of waters: and God shal wipe away all
teares from their eyes.
CHAPTER
8
1 And when hee had opened the seuenth seale, there was silence in heauen about
the space of halfe an houre.
2 And I sawe the seuen Angels which stood before God, and to them were giuen
seuen trumpets.
3 And another Angel came & stood at the altar, hauing a golden censer, and
there was giuen vnto him much incense, that hee should offer it with the prayers
of all Saints vpon the golden altar which was before the throne.
4 And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the Saints,
ascended vp before God, out of the Angels hand.
5 And the Angel tooke the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast
it into the earth: and there were voyces, and thunderings, and lightnings, and
an earthquake:
6 And the seuen Angels which had the seuen trumpets, prepared themselues to
sound.
7 The first Angel sounded, and there followed haile, and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast vpon the earth, and the third part of trees was burnt
vp, and all greene
grasse
was burnt vp.
8 And the second Angel sounded, and as it were a great mountaine burning with
fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood.
9 And the thirde part of the creatures which were in the Sea, and had life,
died, and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third Angel sounded, and there fell a great starre from heauen,
burning as it were a lampe, and it fell vpon the third part of the riuers, and
vpon the fountaines of waters:
11 And the name of the starre is called Wormewood, and the third part of the
waters became wormewood, and many men dyed of the waters, because they were made
bitter.
12 And the fourth Angel sounded, and the thirde part of the Sunne was smitten,
& the third part of the Moone, and the third part of the starres, so as the
third part of them was darkened: and the day shone not for a third part of it,
and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an Angel flying through the midst of heauen, saying
with a loude voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth, by reason of
the other voyces of the trumpet of the three Angels which are yet to sound.
CHAPTER
9
1 And the fift Angel sounded, and I saw a starre fall from heauen vnto the
earth: and to him was giuen the key of the bottomlesse pitte.
2 And hee opened the bottomelesse pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit,
as the smoke of a great fornace, and the sunne and the ayre were darkened, by
reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts vpon the earth, and vnto them was
giuen power, as the Scorpions of the earth haue power.
4 And it was commaunded them that they should not hurt the
grasse
of the earth, neither any greene thing, neither any tree: but only those men
which haue not the seale of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was giuen that they should not kill them, but that they should
be tormented fiue moneths, and their torment was as the torment of a Scorpion,
when he striketh a man.
6 And in those daies shal men seeke death, and shall not finde it, and shall
desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
7 And the shapes of the Locusts were like vnto horses prepared vnto battell, and
on their heades were as it were crownes like golde, and their faces were as the
faces of men.
8 And they had haire as the haire of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of
Lions.
9 And they had brestplates, as it were brestplates of iron, and the sound of
their wings was as the sound of charets of many horses running to battell.
10 And they had tayles like vnto Scorpions, and there were stings in their
tayles: and their power was to hurt men fiue moneths.
11 And they had a king ouer them, which is the Angel of the bottomlesse pit,
whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greeke tongue hath his
name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past, and behold there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixt Angel sounded, and I heard a voyce from the foure hornes of ye
golden altar, which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixt Angel which had the trumpet, Loose the foure Angels which
are bound in the great riuer Euphrates.
15 And the foure Angels were loosed, which were prepared for an houre, and a
day, and a moneth, and a yeere, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the armie of the horsemen were two hundred thousand
thousand: and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I sawe the horses in the vision, and them that sate on them, hauing
brest-plates of fire and of Iacinct, and brimstone, & the heades of the
horses were as the heads of Lions, and out of their mouthes issued fire, and
smoke, and brimstone.
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the
smoke, and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouthes.
19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tailes: for their tailes were
like vnto serpents, and had heads, and with them they doe hurt.
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented
not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship deuils, and idoles
of golde, and siluer, and brasse, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see,
nor heare, nor walke:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.
CHAPTER
10
1 And I saw another mighty Angel come down from heauen, clothed with a cloud,
and a rainebow was vpon his head, and his face was as it were the Sunne, and his
feet as pillars of fire.
2 And hee had in his hand a little booke open: and hee set his right foote vpon
the sea, and his left foote on the earth,
3 And cryed with a loude voice, as when a Lion roareth: and when hee had cried,
seuen thunders vttered their voices.
4 And when the seuen thunders had vttered their voices, I was about to write:
and I heard a voice from heauen, saying vnto mee, Seale vp those things which
the seuen thunders vttered, and write them not.
5 And the Angel which I saw stand vpon the sea, and vpon the earth, lifted vp
his hand to heauen,
6 And sware by him that liueth for euer and euer, who created heauen, and the
things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the
sea, and the things which are therein, that there should bee time no longer.
7 But in the dayes of the voice of the seuenth Angel, when he shall begin to
sound, the mysterie of God should be finished, as hee hath declared to his
seruants the Prophets.
8 And the voice which I heard from heauen spake vnto me againe, and said, Go,
and take the litle booke which is open in the hand of the Angel which standeth
vpon the sea, and vpon the earth.
9 And I went vnto the Angel, and said vnto him, Giue me the little booke. And he
sayd vnto me, Take it, and eat it vp, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it
shall bee in thy mouth sweete as hony.
10 And I tooke the little booke out of the Angels hand, and ate it vp, and it
was in my mouth sweet as honie: and as soone as I had eaten it, my belly was
bitter.
11 And he sayd vnto me, Thou must prophesie againe before many peoples, and
nations, and tongues, and kings.
CHAPTER
11
1 And there was giuen me a reede like vnto a rod, and the Angel stood, saying,
Rise, and measure the
Temple
of
God
, and the Altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the Court which is without the
Temple
leaue
out, and measure it not: for it is giuen vnto the Gentiles, and the holy citie
shall they tread vnder foote fourty and two moneths.
3 And I will giue power vnto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesie a
thousand two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two oliue trees, and the two candlestickes, standing before the
God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and
deuoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, hee must in this maner
be killed.
6 These haue power to shut heauen, that it raine not in the dayes of their
prophesie: and haue power ouer waters to turne them to blood, and to smite the
earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall haue finished their testimonie, the beast that ascendeth
out of the bottomlesse pit, shall make warre against them, and shall ouercome
them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great citie, which
spiritually is called Sodome and
Egypt
, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people, and kinreds, and tongues, and nations, shal see their
dead bodies three dayes and an halfe, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to
be put in graues.
10 And they that dwell vpon the earth shall reioyce ouer them, and make merry,
and shall send gifts one to another, because these two Prophets tormented them
that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three dayes and an halfe the Spirit of life from God, entred into
them: and they stood vpon their feete, and great feare fell vpon them which saw
them.
12 And they heard a great voyce from heauen, saying vnto them, Come vp hither.
And they ascended vp to heauen in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same houre was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the
city fell, and in the earthquake were slaine of men seuen thousand: and the
remnant were affrighted, and gaue glory to the God of heauen.
14 The second woe is past, and behold, the third woe commeth quickly.
15 And the seuenth Angel sounded, and there were great voyces in heauen, saying,
The kingdomes of this world are become the kingdomes of our Lord, and of his
Christ, and he shall reigne for euer and euer.
16 And the foure and twentie Elders which sate before God on their seates, fell
vpon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, Wee giue thee thankes, O Lord God Almightie, which art, and wast, and
art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead
that they should bee iudged, and that thou shouldest giue reward vnto thy
seruants the Prophets, and to the Saints, & them that feare thy Name, small
and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19 And the
Temple
of
God
was opened in heauen, and there was seene in his
Temple
the Arke of his Testament, and there were lightnings, and voyces, and
thundrings, and an earthquake, and great haile.
CHAPTER
12
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heauen, a woman clothed with the Sunne,
& the Moone vnder her feete, and vpon her head a Crowne of twelue starres:
2 And shee being with childe, cried, trauailing in birth, and pained to be
deliuered.
Rev 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heauen, and behold a great red
dragon, hauing seuen heads, and ten hornes, and seuen crownes vpon his heads.
4 And his taile drew the third part of the starres of heauen, and did cast them
to the earth: And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be
deliuered, for to deuoure her childe as soone as it was borne.
5 And shee brought foorth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of
yron: and her child was caught vp vnto God, and to his Throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wildernesse, where shee hath a place prepared of
God, that they should feed her there a thousand, two hundred, and threescore
dayes.
7 And there was warre in heauen, Michael and his Angels fought against the
dragon, & the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And preuailed not, neither was their place found any more in heauen.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the deuill and
Satan, which deceiueth the whole world: hee was cast out into the earth, and his
angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a lowd voyce saying in heauen, Now is come saluation, and
strength, and the kingdome of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the
accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and
night.
11 And they ouercame him by the blood of the Lambe, and by the word of their
Testimony, and they loued not their liues vnto the death.
12 Therefore reioyce, yee heauens, and yee that dwell in them; Woe to the
inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea: for the deuill is come downe vnto you,
hauing great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast vnto the earth, hee persecuted the
woman which brought foorth the man childe.
14 And to the woman were giuen two wings of a great Eagle, that shee might flee
into the wildernesse into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and
times, and halfe a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood, after the woman: that
he might cause her to bee caried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed
vp the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make warre with the
remnant of her seed, which keepe the Commaundements of God, and haue the
testimony of Iesus Christ.
CHAPTER
13
1 And I stoode vpon the sand of the sea: and saw a beast rise vp out of the sea,
hauing seuen heads, and tenne hornes, and vpon his hornes tenne crownes, and
vpon his heads, the name of blasphemie.
2 And the beast which I saw, was like vnto a Leopard, and his feet were as the
feet of a Beare, and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion: and the dragon gaue him
his power, and his seat, and great authoritie.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound
was healed: and al the world wondered after the beast.
4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast, and they
worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like vnto the beast? Who is able to make
warre with him?
5 And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, speaking great things, and blasphemies,
and power was giuen vnto him to continue fortie and two moneths.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemie against God, to blaspheme his Name, and
his Tabernacle, and them that dwelt in heauen.
7 And it was giuen vnto him to make warre with the Saints, and to ouercome them:
And power was giuen him ouer all kinreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwel vpon the earth, shall worship him, whose names are not
written in the booke of life of the Lambe, slaine from the foundation of the
world.
9 If any man haue an eare, let him heare:
10 Hee that leadeth into captiuitie, shall goe into captiuitie: Hee that killeth
with the sword, must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the
faith of the Saints.
11 And I beheld another beast comming vp out of the earth, and hee had two
hornes like a lambe, and hee spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth
the earth and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly
wound was healed.
13 And hee doeth great wonders, so that hee maketh fire come downe from heauen
on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiueth them that dwel on the earth, by the meanes of those miracles
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on
the earth, that they should make an Image to the beast which had the wound by a
sword, and did liue.
15 And he had power to giue life vnto the Image of the beast, that the Image of
the beast should both speake, and cause that as many as would not worship the
Image of the beast, should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both smal and great rich and poore, free and bond, to
receiue a marke in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, saue he that had the marke, or the name of
the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisedome. Let him that hath vnderstanding, count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man, and his number is, sixe hundred threescore
and sixe.
CHAPTER
14
1 And I looked, and loe, a Lambe stood on the
mount
Sion
, and with him an hundreth fourty and foure thousand, hauing his Fathers Name
written in their foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from heauen, as the voice of many waters, and as the voyce
of a great thunder: and I heard the voyce of harpers, harping with their harpes.
3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the foure
beasts, and the Elders, and no man could learne that song, but the hundreth and
fourtie and foure thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
4 These are they which were not defiled with women: for they are virgines: These
are they which follow the Lambe whithersoeuer hee goeth: These were redeemed
from among men, being the first fruits vnto God, and to the Lambe.
5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the
throne of God.
6 And I saw another Angel flie in the midst of heauen, hauing the euerlasting
Gospel, to preach vnto them that dwel on the earth, and to euery nation, and
kinred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Feare God, and giue glory to him, for the houre of
his iudgement is come: and worshippe him that made heauen and earth, and the
sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another Angel, saying,
Babylon
is fallen, is fallen, that great citie, because she made all nations drinke of
the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third Angel followed them, saying with a lowd voice, If any man
worship the beast and his image, and receiue his marke in his forehead, or in
his hand,
10 The same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God, which is powred out
without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and hee shall be tormented with
fire and brimstone, in the presence of the holy Angels, and in the presence of
the Lambe:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp for euer and euer. And they haue
no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoeuer
receyueth the marke of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the Saints: Here are they that keepe the
Commandements of God, and the faith of Iesus.
13 And I heard a voyce from heauen, saying vnto me, Write, Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord, from hencefoorth, yea, saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their labours, and their workes doe follow them.
14 And I looked, and beholde, a white cloud, and vpon the cloude one sate like
vnto the sonne of man, hauing on his head a golden crowne, and in his hand a
sharpe sickle.
15 And another Angel came out of the Temple crying with a loude voice to him
that sate on the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle and reape, for the time is come for
thee to reape, for the haruest of the earth is ripe.
16 And hee that sate on the cloude thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the
earth was reaped.
17 And another Angel came out of the
Temple
which is in heauen, he also hauing a sharpe sickle.
18 And another Angel came out from the Altar, which had power ouer fire, and
cryed with a loud cry to him, that had the sharpe sickle, saying, Thrust in thy
sharpe sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes
are fully ripe.
19 And the Angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of
the earth, & cast it into the great winepresse of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepresse was troden without the citie, and blood came out of the
winepresse, euen vnto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and sixe
hundred furlongs.
CHAPTER
15
1 And I saw another signe in heauen great and marueilous, seuen Angels hauing
the seuen last plagues, for in them is filled vp the wrath of God.
2 And I saw as it were a Sea of glasse, mingled with fire, and them that had
gotten the victorie ouer the beast, and ouer his image, and ouer his marke, and
ouer the number of his name, stand on the sea of glasse, hauing the harpes of
God.
3 And they sing the song of Moses the seruant of God, and the song of the Lambe,
saying, Great and marueilous are thy workes, Lord God Almightie, iust and true
are thy wayes, thou king of saints.
4 Who shall not feare thee, O Lord, and glorifie thy Name? for thou onely art
holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy iudgements are
made manifest.
5 And after that I looked, and behold, the Temple of the tabernacle of the
testimony in heauen was opened:
6 And the seuen Angels came out of the Temple, hauing the seuen plagues, clothed
in pure and white linnen, and hauing their breasts girded with golden girdles.
7 And one of the foure beasts gaue vnto the seuen Angels, seuen golden vials,
full of the wrath of God, who liueth for euer and euer.
8 And the
Temple
was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power, and no man was
able to enter into the
Temple
, till the seuen plagues of the seuen Angels were fulfilled.
CHAPTER
16
1 And I heard a great voyce out of the
Temple
, saying to the seuen Angels, Goe your wayes, and powre out the vials of the
wrath of God vpon the earth.
2 And the first went, and powred out his viall vpon the earth, and there fell a
noysome and grieuous sore vpon the men which had the marke of the beast, and
vpon them which worshipped his image.
3 And the second Angel powred out his viall vpon the sea, and it became as the
blood of a dead man: and euery liuing soule died in the sea.
4 And the third Angel powred out his viall vpon the riuers and fountaines of
waters, & they became blood.
5 And I heard the Angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which
art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast iudged thus:
6 For they haue shedde the blood of Saints and Prophets, and thou hast giuen
them blood to drinke: for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Euen so, Lord God Almightie, true
and righteous are thy iudgements.
8 And the fourth Angel powred out his viall vpon the Sunne, and power was giuen
vnto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the Name of God, which
hath power ouer these plagues: and they repented not, to giue him glory.
10 And the fift Angel powred out his viall vpon the seat of the beast, and his
kingdome was full of darkenesse, and they gnawed their tongues for paine,
11 And blasphemed the God of heauen, because of their paines, and their sores,
and repented not of their deeds.
12 And the sixt Angel powred out his viall vpon the great riuer
Euphrates
, and the water thereof was dried vp, that the way of the Kings of the East
might be prepared.
13 And I saw three vncleane spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the
dragon, & out of the mouth of the beast, & out of the mouth of the false
prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of deuils working miracles, which goe forth vnto the
Kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battell of
that great day of God Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thiefe. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his
garments, least hee walke naked, and they see his shame.
16 And hee gathered them together into a place, called in the Hebrewe tongue,
Armageddon.
17 And the seuenth Angel powred out his viall into the ayre, and there came a
great voyce out of the
Temple
of heauen, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices and thunders, and lightnings: and there was a great
earthquake, such as was not since men were vpon the earth, so mighty an
earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great Citie was diuided into three parts, and the Cities of the
nations fell: and great
Babylon
came in remembrance before God, to giue vnto her the cup of the wine of the
fiercenesse of his wrath.
20 And euery yland fled away, and the mountaines were not found.
21 And there fell vpon men a great haile out of heauen, euery stone about the
weight of a talent, and men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hayle:
for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
CHAPTER
17
1 And there came one of the seuen Angels, which had the seuen vials, and talked
with me, saying vnto mee, Come hither, I will shew vnto thee the iudgement of
the great Whore, that sitteth vpon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth haue committed fornication, and the
inhabiters of the earth haue beene made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he caried me away in the Spirit into the wildernesse: and I saw a woman sit
vpon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, hauing seuen heads,
and ten hornes.
4 And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold,
and precious stone & pearles, hauing a golden cup in her hand, full of
abominations and filthinesse of her fornication.
5 And vpon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The
Mother Of Harlots, And Abominations Of The Earth.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood
of the Martyrs of Iesus: and when I saw her, I wondred with great admiration.
7 And the Angel saide vnto mee, Wherefore didst thou marueile? I will tell thee
the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carieth her, which hath the
seuen heads, and ten hornes.
8 The beast that thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the
bottomlesse pit, and goe into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall
wonder, (whose names were not written in the booke of life from the foundation
of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisedome. The seuen heads are seuen mountaines,
on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seuen Kings, fiue are fallen, and one is, and the other is not
yet come: and when he commeth, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, euen he is the eighth, & is of the
seuen, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the tenne hornes which thou sawest, are ten kings, which haue receiued no
kingdom as yet: but receiue power as kings one houre with the beast.
13 These haue one minde, and shall giue their power and strength vnto the beast.
14 These shal make warre with the Lambe, and the Lambe shal ouercome them: For
he is Lord of Lords, and King of kings, and they that are with him, are called,
& chosen, and faithfull.
15 And he saith vnto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth,
are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten hornes which thou sawest vpon the beast, these shall hate the
whore, and shall make her desolate, and naked, and shall eate her flesh, and
burne her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and giue
their kingdome vnto the beast, vntil the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest, is that great Citie which reigneth ouer the
kings of the earth.
CHAPTER
18
1 And after these things, I saw another Angel come downe from heauen, hauing
great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cryed mightily with a strog voyce, saying, Babylon the great is fallen,
is fallen, and is become the habitation of deuils, and the hold of euery foule
spirit, and a cage of euery vncleane and hatefull bird:
3 For all nations haue drunke of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and
the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication with her, & the Merchants
of the earth are waxed rich thorow the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heauen, saying, Come out of her, my people,
that yee be not partakers of her sinnes, and that yee receiue not of her
plagues:
5 For her sinnes haue reached vnto heauen, and God hath remembred her
iniquities.
6 Reward her euen as she rewarded you, and double vnto her double according to
her works: in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.
7 How much she hath glorified her selfe, and liued deliciously, so much torment
and sorrow giue her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a Queene, and am no
widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine,
and she shall bee vtterly burnt with fire, for strong is the Lord God, who
iudgeth her.
9 And the Kings of the earth, who haue committed fornication, and liued
deliciously with her, shall bewaile her and lament for her, when they shall see
the smoke of her burning:
10 Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that
great citie
Babylon
, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.
11 And the Merchants of the earth shall weepe and mourne ouer her, for no man
buyeth their merchandise any more.
12 The merchandise of gold, and siluer, and pretious stones, and of pearles, and
fine linnen, and purple, and silke, and scarlet, and all Thine wood, and all
maner vessels of Yuorie, and all maner vessels of most precious wood, and of
brasse, and iron, and marble,
13 And Cynamome, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, & wine, and
oile, and fine floure, and wheat, and beasts, and sheepe, and horses, and
chariots, and slaues, and soules of men.
14 And the fruits that thy soule lusted after, are departed from thee, and all
things which were daintie, and goodly, are departed from thee, and thou shalt
finde them no more at all.
15 The Merchants of these things which were made riche by her, shall stand
afarre off for the feare of her torment, weeping and wailing.
16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linnen, and
purple and scarlet, and decked with gold, and pretious stones, and pearles:
17 For in one houre so great riches is come to nought. And euery shipmaster, and
all the company in ships, and sailers, and as many as trade by sea, stood a
farre off,
18 And cryed when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like
vnto this great citie?
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping, and wailing, saying,
Alas, alas, that great citie, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the
sea, by reason of her costlinesse, for in one houre is she made desolate.
20 Reioyce ouer her thou heauen, and ye holy Apostles and Prophets, for God hath
auenged you on her.
21 And a mightie Angel tooke vp a stone like a great milstone, and cast it into
the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great citie
Babylon
bee throwen downe, and shall bee found no more at all.
22 And the voyce of harpers and musitions, and of pipers, and trumpetters, shall
bee heard no more at all in thee: and no craftsman, of whatsoeuer craft hee be,
shall be found any more in thee: and the sound of a milstone shalbe heard no
more at all in thee:
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice
of the bridegrome and of the bride shalbe heard no more at all in thee: for thy
Merchants were the great men of the earth: for by thy sorceries were all nations
deceiued.
24 And in her was found the blood of Prophets, and of Saints, and of all that
were slaine vpon the earth.
CHAPTER
19
1 And after these things I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen, saying,
Alleluia: saluation, and glorie, and honour, and power vnto the Lord our God:
2 For true and righteous are his iudgements, for hee hath iudged the great whore
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath auenged the blood of
his seruants at her hand.
3 And againe they sayd, Alleluia: and her smoke rose vp for euer & euer.
4 And the foure and twentie Elders, and the foure beasts fell downe, and
worshipped God that sate on the throne, saying, Amen, Alleluia.
5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God all yee his
seruants, and ye that feare him, both small and great.
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of
many waters, and as the voice of mightie thundrings, saying, Alleluia: for the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
7 Let vs bee glad and reioyce, and giue honour to him: for the mariage of the
Lambe is come, and his wife hath made herselfe readie.
8 And to her was granted, that she should bee arayed in fine linnen, cleane and
white: for the fine linnen is the righteousnesse of Saints.
9 And hee saith vnto mee, Write, Blessed are they which are called vnto the
marriage supper of the Lambe. And he saith vnto mee, These are the true sayings
of God.
10 And I fell at his feete to worship him: And he said vnto me, See thou doe it
not: I am thy fellow seruant, and of thy brethren, that haue the testimonie of
Iesus, Worship God: for the testimony of Iesus, is the spirit of prophecie.
11 And I sawe heauen opened, and behold a white horse, and hee that sate vpon
him was called faithful and true, and in righteousnes hee doth iudge and make
warre.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crownes, and hee
had a name written, that no man knew but he himselfe.
13 And hee was clothed with a vesture dipt in blood, and his name is called, The
word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heauen followed him vpon white horses, clothed
in fine linnen, white and cleane.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharpe sword, that with it hee should smite the
nations: and he shal rule them with a rod of yron: and he treadeth the
winepresse of the fiercenesse and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture, and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings,
And Lord Of Lords.
17 And I saw an Angel standing in the Sunne, and hee cried with a lowd voyce,
saying to all the foules that flie in the midst of heauen, Come and gather your
selues together vnto the supper of the great God:
18 That yee may eate the flesh of Kings, and the flesh of Captaines, 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.
19 And I saw the beast, & the Kings of the earth, and their armies gathered
together to make warre against him that sate on the horse, and against his armie.
20 And the beast was taken, & with him the false prophet, that wrought
miracles before him, with which he deceiued them that had receiued the marke of
the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast aliue into a
lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sate vpon the horse,
which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the foules were filled with
their flesh.
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20
1 And I saw an Angel come down from heauen, hauing the key of the bottomles pit,
& a great chaine in his hand.
2 And hee laid hold on the dragon that old serpent, which is the deuill and
Satan, and bound him a thousand yeres,
3 And cast him into the bottomlesse pit, and shut him vp, and set a seale vpon
him, that he should deceiue the nations no more, till the thousand yeeres should
bee fulfilled: and after that hee must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sate vpon them, and iudgement was giuen vnto them:
& I saw the soules of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus, and
for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had receiued his marke vpon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they
liued and reigned with Christ a thousand yeeres.
5 But the rest of the dead liued not againe vntill the thousand yeeres were
finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed & holy is he that hath part in ye first resurrection: on such the
second death hath no power, but they shall be Priests of God, and of Christ, and
shall reigne with him a thousand yeeres.
7 And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his
prison,
8 And shall goe out to deceiue the nations which are in the foure quarters of
the earth, Gog & Magog, to gather them together to battell: the number of
whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went vp on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the campe of the
Saints about, and the beloued citie: and fire came downe from God out of heauen,
and deuoured them.
10 And the deuil that deceiued them, was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day
and night, for euer and euer.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sate on it, from whose face the
earth and the heauen fled away, and there was found no place for them.
12 And I sawe the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the books were
opened: & another booke was opened, which is the booke of life: and the dead
were iudged out of those things which were written in the books, according to
their works.
13 And the sea gaue vp the dead which were in it: and death and hell deliuered
vp the dead which were in them: and they were iudged euery man according to
their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire: this is the second death.
15 And whosoeuer was not found written in the booke of life, was cast into the
lake of fire.
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21
1 And I saw a new heauen, and a new earth: for the first heauen, and the first
earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.
2 And I Iohn saw the holy City, new Hierusalem comming down from God out of
heauen, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heauen, saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God
is with men, and he wil dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God
himselfe shalbe with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes: and there shall bee no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there bee any more paine:
for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sate vpon the throne, said, Behold, I make all things new. And hee
said vnto me, Write: for these words are true and faithfull.
6 And he said vnto mee, It is done: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end. I will giue vnto him that is athirst, of the fountaine of the water of
life, freely.
7 He that ouercommeth, shall inherite all things, and I will bee his God, and he
shall be my sonne.
8 But the fearefull, and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable, and murderers, and
whore mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyars, shall haue their
part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second
death.
9 And there came vnto me one of the seuen Angels, which had the seuen vials full
of the seuen last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew
thee the Bride, the Lambes wife.
10 And he caried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountaine, and shewed
me that great citie, the holy Hierusalem, descending out of heauen from God,
11 Hauing the glory of God: and her light was like vnto a stone most precious;
euen like a iasper stone, cleare as christal,
12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelue gates, and at the gates twelue
Angels, & names written thereon, which are the names of the twelue tribes of
the children of Israel.
13 On the East three gates, on the North three gates, on the South three gates,
and on the West three gates.
14 And the wall of the citie had twelue foundations, and in them the names of
the twelue Apostles of the Lambe.
15 And hee that talked with mee, had a golden reede to measure the citie, and
the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16 And the city lieth foure square, and the length is as large as the breadth:
and he measured the city with the reed, twelue thousand furlongs: the length,
and the breadth, and the height of it are equall.
17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred, and fourtie, and foure cubites,
according to the measure of a man, that is, of the Angel.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of Iasper, and the city was pure gold,
like vnto cleare glasse.
19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all maner of
precious stones. The first foundation was Iasper, the second Saphir, the third a
Chalcedony, the fourth an Emerald,
20 The fift Sardonix, the sixt Sardius, the seuenth Chrysolite, the eight Beryl,
the ninth a Topas, the tenth a Chrysoprasus, the eleuenth a Iacinct, the twelfth
an Amethyst.
21 And the twelue gates were twelue pearles, euery seuerall gate was of one
pearle, and the streete of the city was pure golde, as it were transparent
glasse.
22 And I saw no
Temple
therein: For the Lord God Almightie, and the Lambe, are the
Temple
of it.
23 And the citie had no need of the Sunne, neither of the Moone to shine in it:
for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lambe is the light thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saued, shall walke in the light of it: and
the kings of the earth doe bring their glory and honour into it.
25 And the gates of it shall not bee shut at all by day: for there shall bee no
night there.
26 And they shall bring the glorie and honour of the nations into it.
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither
whatsoeuer worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in
the Lambes booke of life.
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22
1 And he shewed mee a pure riuer of water of life, cleere as Chrystall,
proceeding out of the throne of God, and of the Lambe.
2 In the middest of the street of it, and of either side of the riuer, was there
the tree of life, which bare twelue manner of fruits, and yeelded her fruit
euery moneth: and the leaues of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God, & of the Lambe
shall bee in it, and his seruants shall serue him.
4 And they shall see his face, and his Name shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shalbe no night there, and they need no candle, neither light of the
Sunne, for the Lord God giueth them light, and they shall reigne for euer and
euer.
6 And hee said vnto mee, These sayings are faithfull and true. And the Lord God
of the holy Prophets sent his Angel to shew vnto his seruants the things which
must shortly be done.
7 Beholde, I come quickly: Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the
prophecie of this booke.
8 And I Iohn saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seene, I
fell downe, to worship before the feete of the Angel, which shewed me these
things.
9 Then saith he vnto me, See thou doe it not: for I am thy fellow seruant, and
of thy brethren the Prophets, and of them which keepe the sayings of this booke:
worship God.
10 And hee saith vnto mee, Seale not the sayings of the prophesie of this booke:
for the time is at hand.
11 He that is vniust, let him be vniust still: and he which is filthy, let him
be filthy still: and hee that is righteous, let him bee righteous still: and hee
that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with mee, to giue euery man
according as his worke shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first & the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandements, that they may haue right to the
tree of life, and may enter in thorow the gates into the citie.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and
idolaters, and whosoeuer loueth and maketh a lie.
16 I Iesus haue sent mine Angel, to testifie vnto you these things in the
Churches. I am the roote and the offspring of Dauid, and the bright and morning
starre.
17 And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth, say, Come.
And let him that is a thirst, come. And whosoeuer will, let him take the water
of life freely.
18 For I testifie vnto euery man that heareth the wordes of the prophesie of
this booke, If any man shal adde vnto these things, God shall adde vnto him the
plagues, that are written in this booke.
19 And if any man shall take away from the wordes of the booke of this prophesie,
God shal take away his part out of the booke of life, and out of the holy citie,
and from the things which are written in this booke.
20 Hee which testifieth these things, saith, Surely, I come quickly. Amen. Euen
so, Come Lord Iesus.
21 The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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