1Potom som dostal trstinovú mieru, ktorá vyzerala ako prút, a anjel mi povedal: „Vstaň a zmeraj Boží chrám aj oltár a zrátaj tých, ktorí sa v ňom klaňajú.2Ale vonkajšie chrámové nádvorie vynechaj a nemeraj ho, lebo je vydané pohanom. Budú pustošiť sväté mesto štyridsaťdva mesiacov.3No pošlem ešte svojich dvoch svedkov; oblečení do smútočných šiat budú tisícdvestošesťdesiat dní pripomínať, že je najvyšší čas robiť pokánie.“4To sú tie dve olivy a dva svietniky, ktoré stoja pred Pánom zeme.5A keby im chcel niekto ublížiť, vyšľahne oheň z ich úst a spáli ich nepriateľov. Takto zahynie každý, kto by im chcel ublížiť.6Tí dvaja svedkovia majú moc uzavrieť nebesá, aby nepršalo, kým budú prorokovať, a majú moc premeniť vody na krv a trápiť zem všetkými pohromami, kedykoľvek budú chcieť.7No len čo skončia svoje ťažké poslanie, vystúpi z priepasti dravá šelma, pustí sa s nimi do boja, premôže ich a zabije.8Ich telá zostanú ležať na námestí veľkého mesta, ktoré sa obrazne volá Sodoma a Egypt, kde bol ukrižovaný aj ich Pán.9Ľudia zo všetkých národov, kmeňov, jazykov a rás budú tri a pol dňa pozerať na ich mŕtve telá a nedovolia ich pochovať.10Obyvatelia zeme sa z toho budú radovať, jasať a posielať si dary a blahoželať si: „Tí dvaja nás už nebudú znepokojovať!“11Ale po tri a pol dňoch Boh tých dvoch svedkov oživil a postavili sa na nohy. Tých, čo to videli, premkla hrôza.12Tu začuli dvaja proroci mocný hlas z neba: „Vystúpte sem!“ A vystúpili v oblaku do neba pred očami vydesených nepriateľov.13V tej chvíli nastalo veľké zemetrasenie, desatina mesta sa premenila na rumovisko a v ňom zahynulo sedemtisíc ľudí. Ostatných sa zmocnil strach a vzdali slávu Bohu na nebi.14Druhá pohroma sa skončila, ale už je tu tretia.
Siedma poľnica
15Zatrúbil siedmy anjel a celým nebom zazneli mocné hlasy: „Vlády nad svetom sa odteraz ujal náš Pán a jeho Mesiáš a bude kraľovať na večné veky!“16Dvadsiati štyria starci, čo sedia na svojich trónoch pred Bohom, padli na tvár, klaňali sa Bohu a volali:17„Vzdávame ti vďaky,Pane, Bože všemohúci,ktorý si a ktorý si bol,že si sa ujal svojej mocia začal si kraľovať.18Rozzúrili sa národy,preto tvoj hnev sa obrátil proti nim.Nastal čas súdiť mŕtvycha odmeniť tvojich služobníkov, prorokov,všetkých, ktorí ti patriaa žijú podľa tvojej vôle,malých aj veľkých,a zahubiť tých,čo pustošia zem.“19Tu sa otvoril v nebi Boží chrám a bolo v ňom vidieť truhlu zmluvy. Vzápätí sa rozpútali blesky, zaburácali hromy, nastalo zemetrasenie a veľké krupobitie.
English Standard Version
The Two Witnesses
1Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,2but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.3And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.5And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed.6They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.7And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit* will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,8and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically* is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.9For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,10and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.11But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.13And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.14The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.
The Seventh Trumpet
15Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”16And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,17saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.18The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”19Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings,* peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
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