Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 Then, in my vision, I saw the Lamb standing on Mount
Zion. With him were a hundred and forty-four thousand men,
with his name and the name of his Father written on their
foreheads. note
2 And I heard a sound from Heaven, ‘like the
sound of many waters,’ and like the sound of a loud peal of
thunder; the sound that I heard was like the music of harpers
playing on their harps. note
3 They are singing what seems to be a
new song, before the throne, and before the four Creatures
and the Councillors; and no one was able to learn that song
except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed
from earth. note
4 These are the men who never defiled
themselves in their intercourse with women; they are as pure
as virgins. These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever
he goes. They were redeemed as the first-fruits of mankind
for God and for the Lamb.
5 ‘No lie was ever heard upon
their lips.’ They are beyond reach of blame. note
6 Then I saw another angel, flying in mid-heaven. He had
the Good News, decreed from eternity, to announce to those
who dwell on the earth—to men of every nation, and tribe,
and language, and people;
7 and he cried in a loud voice—
‘Reverence God, and give him praise (for the hour of his
Judgement has come) and worship him who made the heaven
and the earth and the sea and all springs of water.’ note
8 Then a second angel followed, crying—‘She has fallen!
She has fallen—Babylon the Great, who has made all the
nations drink the maddening wine of her licentiousness!’ note
9 Then a third angel followed them, crying in a loud voice—
‘Whoever worships the Beast and its image, and receives its
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brand on his forehead or on his hand,
10 that man shall drink
the maddening wine of God that has been poured unmixed
into the cup of his Wrath, and he shall be tortured with fire and
sulphur before the eyes of the holy angels and before the eyes
of the Lamb. note
11 The smoke from their torture rises for ever
and ever, and they have no rest day nor night—those who
worship the Beast and its image, and all who are branded
with its name.’ note ⪆⪆
12 (Here there is need for endurance on
the part of Christ's People—those who lay to heart the commands
of God and the Faith of Jesus.)
13 Then I heard a voice from Heaven saying ‘Write—“Blessed
are the dead who from this hour die in union with the Lord.”
“Yes,” answers the Spirit, “that they may rest from their
toil. Their good deeds go with them.”’
14 Then, in my vision, I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud
there was sitting one ‘like a man.’ On his head he had a
crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp sickle. note
15 Then another angel came out from the Temple, crying in a
loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud—‘Take your
sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come; the Harvest of
Earth is ready.’
16 He who was sitting on the cloud brought
his sickle down upon the earth, and the Harvest of Earth was
reaped.
17 Then another angel came out of the Temple in Heaven; he,
also, had a sharp sickle.
18 Then another angel came out of the altar; he had power
over fire, and he called in a loud voice to the angel that had
the sharp sickle—‘Take your sharp sickle, and gather the
bunches from the Vine of Earth, for its grapes are ripe.’
19 The
angel brought his sickle down on the earth and gathered the
fruit of the Vine of Earth, and threw it into the great winepress
of the Wrath of God.
20 The ‘grapes were trodden in
the press’ outside the city; and blood came out of the press,
rising as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of
two hundred miles. note
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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