7 8 "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God almighty is king. And give him due honour; For the marriage of the Lamb has come, And his wife has made herself ready, And she is permitted to put on fine linen, dazzling and pure 9 And he says to me, "Write: "Happy those who are called to the marriage- 11 12 13 14 345 15 16 17 to me, "Not so! beware! I am a fellow-slave of thine, And of thy brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. [For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.]" And lo, a white horse! And he who sits on it is called "Faithful" and "True," His eyes are a flame of fire, And on his head are many diadems. And he has a name which none knows, save himself; And he is clad in a garment dipped in blood [And his name is called "The Logos of God"]. And the troops in heaven followed him on white horses, And from his mouth issues a sharp sword, wherewith to smite the And he shall shepherd them with an iron rod. And he tramples the winepress of the wrath of the anger of the almighty God. And I saw an angel stand in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather to the great supper of 18 God, to eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of generals, and the flesh of the strong, and the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of all men, 19 free and slaves and small and great." And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their troops, gathered to make war against him who 20 sat on the horse and against his troops. And the beast was caught, and along with him the false prophet, who performed in his presence the signs by which he seduced those who had accepted the mark of the beast and who worshipped his image; they were thrown down, these two, alive 21 into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone. And the rest were killed by the sword of him who sits on the horse, by the sword which went out of his mouth; and all the birds were glutted with their flesh. 201 And I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the 2 abyss and a great chain upon his hand. And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is "the Devil" and "Satan," and bound him for a 3 thousand years, then threw him into the abyss, and shut and sealed it on the top of him, that he should no more seduce the nations until the thousand years were finished; after this he must be unloosed for a little 1 Reading οἱ ἀληθινοί. 4 while. And I saw thrones, and they sat on them and they were permitted to judge; yea, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, who did not worship the beast or his image, and did not accept the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with the Christ for a thousand 5 years. The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years were 6 finished. This is the first resurrection. Happy and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power; they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with 7 him for the thousand years. And when the thousand years are 8 finished, the Satan shall be unloosed from his prison, and he shall come out to seduce the nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to muster them for the war; and their number is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up over the broad earth and encircled the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from the sky and devoured 10 them. And the devil, their seducer, was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet also are; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 11 And I saw a great white throne, And him who sat thereon: Earth and sky fled from his face, And no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; And there were books opened, And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged from what was written in the books, According to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead in her, And death and Hades gave up the dead in them; And they were judged each According to their works. 14 And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And he who was not found written in the book of life, was thrown into the lake of fire. 21 1 And I saw a new sky and a new earth, For the first sky and the first earth have passed away: And the sea is no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, come down out of heaven from God, Prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying: "Lo, the tabernacle of God is with men, And he shall dwell with them; And they shall be his peoples, And God himself shall be with them. 4 And he shall wipe all tears from their eyes, And death shall be no more, Nor shall mourning or crying or pain be any more; 5 And he who sits upon the throne said, "Lo, I make all 6 he says, things new." And And he said to me, 9 "It is done. I am the alpha and the omega, The beginning and the end. I will give to him who is athirst, of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He who conquers shall inherit these things And I will be his God, And he shall be my son. 8 But as for the timid and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars-their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues; and he talked with me, saying, "Come hither, 10 I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb." And in the Spirit he bore me away to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city 11 Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, with the splendour of God; her brilliance is like a very precious stone, as it were a jasper, crystal clear; 12 she has a great and high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed which are the names of the twelve tribes of the 13 sons of Israel. Three gates on the east, and three gates on the north, and three 14 gates on the south, and three gates on the west. And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles 15 of the Lamb. And he who talked with me had a golden reed for a 16 measure, to measure the city with her gates and her wall. And the city lies foursquare, and her length is as great as her breadth. So he measured the city with the reed, fifteen hundred miles; the length and 17 the breadth and the height of her are equal. And he measured her wall, seventy-two yards by a man's measure, which is that of an angel. 18 And her wall was constructed of jasper, And the city was pure gold, like pure glass. 19 [The foundations of the city were adorned with every precious stone; the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, 20 the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprasus, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.] 16 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, Each of the gates was formed of a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass. For the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are her temple. And her lamp the Lamb. And the nations shall walk in her light, And the kings of the earth bring their splendour into her. And her gates shall never be shut by day (For night shall be there no more), And they shall bring the splendour and honour of the nations into her. (Yet never shall anything unclean enter her, Nor anyone who practises abomination and falsehood: But only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.) And he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, And on either side of the river was the tree of life, 3 Bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit according to each month: And the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in her, 7 8 And they need no lamplight or sunlight, For the Lord God shall be their brightness. And they shall reign for ever and ever. And he said to me: "These words are sure and true; and the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to show his slaves what must shortly come to pass. And lo, I come speedily! Happy he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book." And I John am he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who 9 showed these things to me. But he says to me, 10 11 12 13 "Not so! Beware! I am a fellow-slave of thine, And of thy brothers the prophets, And of those who keep the words of this book. And he says to me: "Seal not the words of the prophecy of this book, For the time is near. Let the wicked still be wicked, Let the filthy still be filthy, Let the upright act uprightly still, Let the holy still be holy. Lo, I come speedily! And my reward is with me, To render to every man according as his work is. I am the alpha and the omega, The first and the last, The beginning and the end. 14 Happy they who wash their robes, that theirs may be the right to the tree of 15 life, and that they may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loves and practises falsehood. 16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to you in the I am the scion and the offspring of David, The bright star of the morning." 17 18 And let him who hears say, "Come": And let him who is athirst come, Let him who chooses take the water of life freely. I testify to every man who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: 19 20 21 If any man add to them, God shall add to him the plagues written in this book ; And if any man take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life and out of the holy city, written in this book. He who bears this testimony saith: The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. |