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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Revelation 11 MSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//revelation/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">MSB</a> > Revelation 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/msb/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../revelation/10.htm" title="Revelation 10">◄</a> Revelation 11 <a href="../revelation/12.htm" title="Revelation 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/revelation/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Two Witnesses<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> of the earth.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish. <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">The Witnesses Killed and Raised<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> Lord was also crucified. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and give<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I heard<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And in that day<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming shortly. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">The Seventh Trumpet<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: <p class="indent1stline">“The kingdom of the world <p class="indent2"> has become the kingdom<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">i</a></span> of our Lord <p class="indent1"> and of His Christ, <p class="indent2"> and He will reign forever and ever.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>saying: <p class="indent1stline">“We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, <p class="indent2"> the One who is and who was,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">j</a></span> <p class="indent1"> because You have taken Your great power <p class="indent2"> and have begun to reign. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The nations were enraged,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">k</a></span> <p class="indent2"> and Your wrath has come. <p class="indent1"> The time has come to judge the dead<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">l</a></span> <p class="indent2"> and to reward Your servants the prophets, <p class="indent1"> as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, <p class="indent2"> both small and great—<p class="indent2"> and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">m</a></span> appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">n</a></span> and a great hailstorm.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> F35 and Scrivener TR <i>the angel stood and said</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> TR <i>the God</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> See Zechariah 4:14.<br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> TR <i>our</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> TR <i>in tombs</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> GOC, ALT, CT, F35, and TR <i>send</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> CT and TR <i>they heard</i> or <i>the witnesses heard</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> CT and TR <i>hour</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">i</span> TR <i>The kingdoms of the world have become (the kingdoms)</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">j</span> GOC, F35, and TR include <i>and who is to come</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">k</span> See Psalm 2:1.<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">l</span> GOC <i>nations</i>; See Daniel 12:2.<br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">m</span> ALT, CT, and TR <i>the ark of His covenant</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotesbot">n</span> GOC, ALT, CT, and TR include <i>and an earthquake</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Majrity Standard Bible, MSB is produced in cooperation with <a href=//biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a>, <a href=//discoverybible.com>Discovery Bible</a>, <a href=//openbible.com>OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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