The False Prophet

You may remember that I spoke of the Antichrist last time, the Beast of the Sea.  The Antichrist will have a friend, the False Prophet.  What does he need with the False Prophet?  Oh, well, for one thing, the Antichrist is presenting himself as the Messiah.  The Jews would insist that the Messiah be Jewish, and it would be paramount to the Antichrist to deceive the Jews, being that they are God's chosen people.  The Jews would be very inclined to also insist that the person they accept as the Messiah at least appear to fulfill prophesy, one of these being that before the Messiah comes, Elijah will return.  Recall that Elijah was taken away in a sweet chariot straight up to heaven without death.  This is told in 2 Kings 2.  So, there would have to be a prophet in conjunction with the Antichrist.  Oh, these will be clever people.  

You may also remember that John the Baptist appeared as Jesus prepared to begin his ministry, "to make straight the way of the Lord."  The Antichrist will have his own prophet to drum up public support for him, but this person will be the False Prophet.  How do you know that a prophet is false?  If a so-called prophet makes a single prophesy that is proven to be false or incorrect, he is a false prophet, not from God.  One sees this all the time really.  "I'm getting a 'D', the spirits are telling me 'D'!  Is there someone close to you whose initial is D?"  The False Prophet will surely have some embarrassing mistakes in his prophesies that he'll have to explain.   Speaking of the fatal head wound of the Antichrist that the world accepts as proof he is an immortal God, I mentioned that this wound would be unsurvivable, and opined that beheading is a convincing injury.  John the Baptist was beheaded.  Beheading really seems to be one of the most horrific losses of life there is.  

John tells of the False Prophet's appearance in Revelation 13:11: "And I beheld a beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."  I don't know what to make of "coming up out of the earth."  Some have said that means "out of the land," and "the land" would be the land of Israel, so he would be from Israel.  Hmm...   I am guessing that the reference to the earth is a description of hereditary and cultural background of the False Prophet.  Two horns like a lamb.  I've heard over and over that the two horns like a lamb mean that he will be something like a wolf in sheep's clothing, looking like a gentle lamb on the surface, and inwardly being an evil dragon.  However, it has occurred to me that in the case of the Beast of the Sea, the horns represented rulers in his realm.  And so this suggests that the horns may also refer to persons of power in the Beast of the Earth's domain, although not likely the powerful sorts that the Antichrist will have.  And he spake as a dragon.  He will spit tacks every time he opens his mouth.

Verse 12 continues, saying that the False Prophet will have all the powers of the first beast before him, and cause "the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the beast, whose deadly wound was healed."  Over and over people will be reminded of "the miracle" of the Antichrist's survival.  He will be portrayed as immortal.  Who is immortal but God?  I guess this is part of what bothered some about Christ's death.  Shouldn't God be immortal?  They had seen Jesus Christ die.  The False Prophet will bring down fire from the skies, and do "great wonders," deceiving them that dwell upon the earth by the means of those miracles.  He is only able to do miracles when he's around the Antichrist.  Having everyone completely awestricken, he will tell them to make "an image to the beast." 

And the craziness continues.  

Daniel 3  "Nebuchadnezzar the king, made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: and he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the counsellors, the treasurers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image. 3......and they stood before the image....4. Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, and nations, and languages, 5. That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchnezzar the king hath set up: 6. And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. 7. Therefore...when all the people heard the sound of the ...musick, (they) fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up."

There are some obvious parallels to the account in Daniel 3 of an image to be worshipped, and the account in Revelation 13 of another image to be worshipped.  The trend of the empires has been downhill, with Nebuchadnezzar being the pick of the litter. I imagine this must have been an impressive sight.  A statue about 90' high and 9' wide made of gold?  In the entire world the amount of gold today could be contained in a box the dimensions of a tennis court and 30' high.  In fact, probably some of the gold of that statue is being worn today in jewelry, and made into coins and bullion.  It must have been a glorious sight.  And the music would probably make one gasp.  One other thought about Nebuchadnezzar's image.  It was threescore cubits high, which means 60 cubits, and 6 cubits wide.  So again, the devil number 6 comes up.  Or maybe more accurately, 'the number of man.'  One more observation about the Image of the Beast.  A lot of people think they're much too intelligent to worship a rock or a piece of wood or metal that someone has made into a statue and claimed it became God because now it looks like God.  But why is it wrong to worship an idol?  One is worshipping the created rather than the Creator.  Why do so many intelligent people convince themselves that they can pray to "the universe" as God?  How can the universe be God any more than a rock?  It is the created.  So it's become fashionable lately to call the universe God by people who would see that worshipping a rock is ridiculous and wrong. The universe is not God!!! 

Back to the Image of the Beast.  The False Prophet is able to make the Image of the Beast come to life, just like Pinocchio!  He can speak!  He gives every indication of being alive!  And we're off to see the wizard!  A curious thing about Revelation 13:15: "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, and cause that the image of the beast should both speak and that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."  Why is the Image of the Beast always spoken of with the full phrase instead of using a pronoun?  Maybe there is no pronoun suitable for this thing.  

PS  There is a proverbial saying:  Don't believe everything you hear and don't believe half of what you see.  -  It would be a good thing to remember for the people that find themselves confronted some day with the Beast of the Sea, the Beast of the Earth, and the Image of the Beast.

Am I done with Chapter 13 yet??  No!  I still want to talk about the Mark of the Beast.  But not today. 

PS.  "And he had two horns like a lamb."  I have another idea about the False Prophet's two horns.  Assume the False Prophet is the leader of a world religion, which we know because he is telling people to worship the Beast of the Sea, and to make an idol.  Also assuming that it is a religion that is a false form of Christianity.  The two horns could represent the two main branches of Christianity - Catholic and Protestant.

The Antichrist

And he stood upon the sand of the sea...Revelation 13:1

To refresh your memory, I recently wrote about the beginning of the Great Tribulation.  As many times as I've heard opinions and explanations of the Tribulation, and how all of Christendom has agreed that the Tribulation is a two part period, with no special name for the first three and a half years, and the second three and a half years called the Great Tribulation, I don't remember that anyone has ever drawn a line in the sand and said, "And THIS is that point at which the second period, known as the Great Tribulation, begins."  So I'll just be the one to clear this up once and for all!  

In Chapter 11, the seventh trumpet sounds, which results in the commencement of last set of seven judgments of the three sets.  These seven judgments are called the Seven Vials.  Immediately after the seventh trumpet, in Chapter 12, the Great Red Dragon, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, loses the war in heaven between Michael and the other righteous angels and Satan and his demons.  Up until this war Satan has had access to heaven!  Right now Satan is still able to enter heaven and accuse people on earth to God.  But after losing this war, Satan and his demons are cast down to earth from heaven once and for all.  They can't go back.  This war is still a future event, and when Satan finds himself kicked out of heaven, he will "have great wrath" and start absolutely tearing up the earth.  "Therefore rejoice ye heavens and them that dwell in them.  Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea!  For the devil is come down unto you having great wrath, for he knoweth that he hath but a short time."  All hell breaks loose on earth.  I think that this is the point that the Great Tribulation starts.  

The Great Red Dragon has seven heads and ten horns, with seven crowns on his seven heads, signifying the fact that when this occurs, the seventh empire of world history will have come into being.  All the emperors have been crowned.  This is also a future event.  The previous six empires have come and gone, the seventh is coming.  Revelation 17:10-13: "And there are seven kings: five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11. And the beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seventh, and goeth into perdition. 12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. 13. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."  

In Chapter 13, John sees a beast rise up out of the sea, and the beast resembles the Great Red Dragon.  The beast of the sea also has seven heads and ten horns.  In the case of the beast, however, there are ten crowns on the ten horns.  This tells us that the ten districts which the seventh empire is to be divided into has come into existence at the time when the beast of the sea appears.  

John also says that the beast of the sea "was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion." Revelation 13:2.  The leopard is the Babylonian Empire, the bear is the Medo-Persian Empire, and the lion is the Greek Empire.  But wait, there are seven, why just mention these three?  I guess because at the time John wrote, there were five empires of the past, and he was in the sixth empire, the Roman Empire.  This is why he said, "Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come."  The three empires he looks back on go back to the time of Daniel's prophesy, during the Babylonian Empire.  

Why is this person called "the beast of the sea?"  Because in Chapter 17, (Revelation 17:15), the explanation is given that the sea signifies the Gentile nations of the world: "The waters which thou sawest...are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."  The beast of the sea will rise up out of the Gentile world, almost certainly the Western world, because the seventh empire will be a rebirth of the Roman Empire.  Does this mean that the Antichrist will be Gentile?  No, probably not.  The Antichrist is the false Messiah, and the Messiah has to be Jewish.  

Are the Great Red Dragon and the Beast of the Sea the same?  No, not quite.  The Great Red Dragon is Satan.  The Beast of the Sea is the Antichrist.  Revelation 13:2 goes on to say that the dragon gives him (the beast of the sea) "his power, and his seat, and great authority."  The Beast of the Sea is Satan's man that rules the earth, given his position by Satan. 

Who is this man?  Is he alive today?  This same question has been asked through the centuries ever since John first wrote these words about him.  People speculate frequently.  I can't think of anyone that seems to be the Antichrist.  He may just be some dark political horse that comes from obscurity one day.  He will be a big braggart, and also blaspheme God.  One of the most remarkable things about him will be his big mouth.   

Then in verse 3 John says that he saw that one of the heads of the beast is mortally injured, but then the fatal injury is healed.  This astounds everyone of earth, so much so that they are absolutely convinced that the Beast is divine, and "they worship the dragon which gives power unto the beast, and they worship the beast, whose deadly wound was healed."  

This is a head wound, and no one thinks it just appeared to be fatal.  This man was killed.  Besides that, verse 14 calls this injury a wound by the sword.  So do I think that someone will take a sword and strike the Antichrist in the head? Or do I think that the sword is used as a generic term meaning weapon?  Oh, I don't know.  I know that throughout the book of Revelation there is talk of people being beheaded.  Weirdly enough, I have heard of people being beheaded.  In 1975, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was murdered by his nephew.  The punishment of the nephew was beheading by a golden sword.  Then there was the murder of the journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 by beheading.  And the drug cartels have beheaded their victims.  There was an incident near Guadalajara a few years ago where someone driving down the highway between Guadalajara and Lake Chapala stopped to pick up an ice chest they saw beside the road, and found six heads in the ice chest.   

So, it occurs to me that the injury that the Antichrist receives could actually be beheading.  It could be with a sword, or at least a blade.  I say this because of the way that everyone is so completely convinced that the Antichrist is dead.  People have survived head injuries before.  This man doesn't just look dead.  He is dead.  Is he murdered or is this a barbaric death sentence?  It doesn't say.  The fact that this man's injury is healed and he returns from the dead is the point at which the world decides this man is God, and worships him, which is also, in effect, worship of Satan, the real power behind this man.  

And so, children, the entire world is taken over by Satan worshippers for forty and two months.  

Revelation 13

Revelation 13             written from memory    

1.  And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 
2.  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 
3.  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast. 
4.  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 
5.  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 
6.  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 
7.  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 
8.  And all that dwell upon earth shall worship the dragon, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 
9.  If any man have an ear, let him hear.  
10. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity; he 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 coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he 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 he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 
14. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means 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 live. 
15. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 
16. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, 
17. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 
18. Here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.  

Blood Moon

No doubt everyone has heard that tonight will be a total lunar eclipse.  It is called a Blood Moon, because the moon will appear to be red as it is eclipsed.  There are two interesting things about this eclipse. First, it is the first of four total consecutive lunar eclipses.  When there are four total consecutive lunar eclipses, it is called a tetrad. These eclipses will happen on April 15, 2014, October 8, 2014, April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015.  Second, all the eclipses occur on major Jewish holy days.  Eclipse 1 and 3 will both be on Passover,  and eclipse 2 and 4 will both be on the Feast of Tabernacles.

I have read several blogs and news reports that some feel "something's up," and it isn't good.  For starters, the Talmud states, "When the moon is in eclipse, it is a bad omen for Israel. When the face of the moon is red as blood, it is a sign that the sword is coming to the world."  John Hagee, a televangelist, feels we will see drastic world changes.  And several have pointed out that other tetrads have coincided with  major events for the Jewish people: the year 1492, when Queen Isabella expelled Jews from Spain, 1948, the year of the statehood of Israel, and 1967, the year of the Six Day War.

There are also two solar eclipses coming up: March 20, 2015, and September 13, 2015, which also is the Feast of Trumpets.

Do I think "it's a sign"?  Are we being given a message from God?  Well, it is true that the Gospels record a three hour period of darkness in the middle of the day during the crucifixion of Christ.  Was this a solar eclipse?  The problem with that is that the crucifixion occurred during Passover, which happens at the full moon.  A full moon would preclude a solar eclipse.  But this doesn't mean it couldn't have turned dark for three hours supernaturally.  So, I believe that God does cause signs in the heavens during major events, or else can arrange for events to happen at times of occurrences like eclipses.  Also, at the birth of Christ, the magi followed a star to find him.

On the other hand, significant events happen often.  Was there an eclipse when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans or by the Babylonians?  Not that I know of.  Was the moon in the seventh house? Did Jupiter align with Mars?   I suppose the next year or so may see "the sword coming to the world."  But then, when hasn't the sword come to the world?  Was there a tetrad immediately prior to World War II?  A comet?

I find it curious that the lunar eclipses would occur on Jewish holy days, except that the Jewish holy days often happen on the full moon, so that if total lunar eclipses happened four times in a row in less than two years, it's almost certain that some of them would fall on a Jewish holy day.

Will there be witches in the air?  Undoubtedly.  Will there be an increase in crime and mayhem?  Maybe. Remember:  eclipse and apocalypse rhyme!

The Beginning of the Great Tribulation

Revelation 12 is just past the halfway point of the book.  I have been asked why I've focused to this extent on Revelation.  Because I want to sort out exactly what is being said, and what is not being said.  Many have heard about "the Battle of Armageddon."  I have one problem with this.  There is no Battle of Armageddon anywhere in Scripture.  Lots of people have been threatened with this fictional battle. The word Armageddon is mentioned one time in the entire Bible, in Revelation 16. 

I've been surprised many times to see what is NOT in Revelation.  There is no mention of the Abomination of Desolation or the Rapture.  And I've also been surprised by what IS in Revelation.  Revelation speaks of a thousand year period here on earth when the curse is to a great degree lifted.  This "Millennium" is not specifically mentioned anywhere else.  

The Tribulation itself is not mentioned by this name in Revelation or anywhere else, although the period is described by John and other prophets.  Correction.  Jesus stated in Matthew 24:21 "These will be times of great tribulation."  This is a time of trouble on a level that has never been seen before in human history, and will never be seen again.  The good news is that it only lasts for seven years.  The Tribulation is divided into two parts, the first part is the first three and a half years of the seven years. The second part, the last three and a half years, is called "the Great Tribulation."  The period of the Great Tribulation is referred to in Revelation by the expressions "a thousand two hundred and threescore days," "forty and two months," and "time, times, and half a time."  It's all the same period of time - three and a half years.  Revelation 12 uses a thousand two hundred and three score days and time, times and half a time.  Time means one year, times means two years, half a time means half a year, therefore three and a half years.  One thousand two hundred and threescore days means 1260 days.  Divided by 30 days in the Jewish month equals 42 months.  

What has changed in the Great Tribulation?  The level of violence? Wars? Disasters? Plagues, weather, volcanoes? Comets?

In Revelation 11:15, the seventh angel sounded his trumpet.  The seventh trumpet signals the last set of judgments from God, the Seven Vials judgments. Still, since chapter 9 no judgments have occurred.  Plenty happened up to this point though.  In the first 7 judgments, the Seven Seals, one fourth of humanity died.  In the second 7 judgments, the Seven Trumpets, one third died.  Adding the two together means half of humanity has died in various catastrophes. And then the real trouble starts?

Chapter 12 describes two wonders appearing in heaven.  One is a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars upon her head.  The other is the great red dragon.  Who are these figures representing?  I actually found Revelation 12 to be fairly straight forward.  The woman represents the nation of Israel.  In, Genesis 37 Joseph is described as his father Jacob's favorite son.  Joseph was a "dreamer," he had prophetic dreams.  He dreamed that the sun, the moon and eleven stars bowed down to him.  He told his father and brothers about it.  It was clear to Joseph and all his family what this meant.  His father, his mother and his eleven brothers, bowed down to him.  His mother had died giving birth to his younger brother Benjamin, yet she bowed to him, too.  The woman seen in John's vision is the nation of Israel, and the twelve stars in the crown are the twelve tribes of Israel.  What do the sun and the moon represent?  Uhhh...I would say Jacob and Rachel, except that Rachel was the mother of only two tribes.  Maybe Abraham and Sarah. ????  Anyway, that's the woman.  She is with child, and the child of the nation of Israel is Jesus Christ, who will rule all nations with a rod of iron.  The great red dragon is Satan.  If Satan could have prevented Christ from paying the price for our sins, he would be the ultimate ruler of mankind, rather than God.  Therefore, the woman and her child are his arch enemies.  

Why is the dragon red?  That's an interesting question that I've found no explanation for this so far.  Well, I don't think pink would be his color. The great red dragon has seven heads, and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads.  This monster with seven heads and ten horns is seen other places in Revelation.  This is chapter 12, his first appearance, and then a beast appears in chapter 13 having also seven heads and ten horns, and again in chapter 16. In the other two cases his crowns differ in their placement.  The dragon has seven crowns on his seven heads, the first beast has ten crowns on his ten horns, and the second beast has no crowns at all.  Why?  To indicate the timing of the appearances of the dragon and the beasts.  The dragon has seven heads to represent seven world empires that have occurred throughout world history. They are not concurrent.  It is to be understood that they have all either happened or are happening, in the case of the seventh empire.
The seventh world empire is at this time in existence.  This empire is something that hasn't happened yet, so the dragon won't be cast down to earth until it does.  This will be the world empire, the "new world order."  One earth under one government.  He drew one third of the stars of heaven with his tail and threw them down to the earth.  The stars mean angelic beings. Satan persuaded a third of the other angels to mutiny against God with him.  In chapter 13, the first beast has seven heads, ten horns and ten crowns on his ten horns.  The reason being that the ten horns are the ten divisions within the seventh empire.  First is the coming of the empire itself, the dragon with seven crowns on his seven heads, then the seventh empire is divided up into ten areas, something like states, and when these are in place with rulers over them, the beast with seven heads will have ten crowns on his ten horns, to show that these rulers are in power at this time.  Finally, the beast with seven heads and ten horns and no crowns is after the defeat of the empire and all the ten areas and their rulers or governors.  

The woman "brings forth a man child" and then flees to the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she is fed a thousand two hundred and threescore days - the duration of the Great Tribulation.  

A lot of people have speculated about this place in the wilderness.  The consensus of opinion if that it's in the mountains of Israel.  There is an area called Petra where some have even equipped old ruins there with food and water and the Bible.  

And then...war breaks out in heaven!  Michael the archangel of Israel, and his angels fight the dragon and his evil angelic forces and Michael and his angels toss the whole bunch of them out of heaven for good!  Yay!  I think.  You mean Satan has spent this whole time since he rebelled against God still in heaven with the rebel angels?  That's what it sounds like.  I know there are other Scriptures that describe Satan in heaven accusing the righteous before God, and also having conflicts with righteous angels. But now he's out and all his demons with him.  Where do they wind up?  They all end up here on earth. They lost the war in heaven, and their place there won't be found anymore. 

How do I know this dragon is Satan?  Because verse 9 calls him, "that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." 

Revelation 12:12 "Therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.  Woe  to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

I would say this is the time the Great Tribulation starts, and the thing that distinguishes it from the earlier three and a half years will be the presence of Satan residing on earth.  

Realizing that he has been cast unto the earth, the devil persecutes the woman, the nation of Israel.  She is given two wings of a great eagle in order to fly to her place in the wilderness, where she is nourished for a "time, and times, and half a time," from the face of the serpent, aka the dragon.  Again, the period of time will be three and a half years. Two wings?  The serpent tries to cause her to be carried away by a flood, but the woman is helped by the earth, who swallows the flood.  

Revelation 12:17  "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments or God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."  

Revelation 12

Revelation 12                           from memory

1. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

2. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 

3. And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads. 

4. And his tail drew the third part of stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth, and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 

5. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

6. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. 

7. And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels,

8. And prevailed not. neither was their place found anymore in heaven.

9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him. 

10. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom 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 overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death. 

12. Therefore rejoice ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 

13. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

14. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half 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 be carried away of the flood. 

16. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 

17. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war against the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 11

Revelation 11   written from memory

1. And there was given me a reed like unto 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 leave out, and measure it not, for it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city shall they treat under foot forty and two months. 
3. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.  
4. These are the two olive trees and the two candlestick standing before the God of the earth. 
5. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies, and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 
6. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophesy, and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 
7. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war with them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 
8. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 
9. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 
10. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over 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 days and an half, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them that saw them. 
12. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither, and they ascended up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies beheld them. 
13. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand, and the remnant were affrighted and gave glory the God of heaven. 
14. The second woe is past, and behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 
15. And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever. 
16. And the four and twenty elders which sat before God on their seat fell upon their faces and worshipped God, 
17. Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, 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 be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. 
19, And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament, and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an earthquake, and great hail.