Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The Lamb and His People
1 Then I looked, and there was
the Lamb standing on Mount
Zion; with him were 144,000 people
who have his name and his Father's
name written on their foreheads. note
2 And I heard a voice from heaven
that sounded like a roaring waterfall,
like a loud peal of thunder. It
sounded like the music made by musicians
playing their harps. note
3 The
144,000 people stood before the
throne, the four living creatures, and
the elders; they were singing a new
song, which only they could learn.
Of all mankind they are the only
ones who have been redeemed.
4 They are the men who have kept
themselves pure by not having sexual
relations with women; they are
virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever
he goes. They have been redeemed
from the rest of mankind
and are the first ones to be offered to
God and to the Lamb.
5 They have
never been known to tell lies; they
are faultless. note
The Three Angels
6 Then I saw another angel flying
high in the air, with an eternal message
of Good News to announce to
the peoples of the earth, to every
race, tribe, language, and nation.
7 He said in a loud voice, “Honor
God and praise his greatness! For
the time has come for him to judge
mankind. Worship him who made
heaven, earth, sea, and the springs
of water!”
8 A second angel followed the first
one, saying, “She has fallen! Great
Babylon has fallen She made all
peoples drink her wine—the strong
wine of her immoral lust!” note
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9 A third angel followed the first
two, saying in a loud voice, “Whoever
worships the beast and its
image and receives the mark on his
forehead or on his hand
10 will himself
drink God's wine, the wine of his
fury, which he has poured at full
strength into the cup of his anger!
All who do this will be tormented in
fire and sulfur before the holy angels
and the Lamb. note
11 The smoke of the
fire that torments them goes up forever
and ever. There is no relief day
or night for those who worship the
beast and its image, for anyone who
has the mark of its name.” note
12 This calls for endurance on the
part of God's people, those who
obey God's commandments and are
faithful to Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice from
heaven saying, “Write this: Happy
are those who from now on die in
the service of the Lord!”
13 “Yes indeed!” answers the Spirit.
“They will enjoy rest from their hard
work, because the results of their
service go with them.”
The Harvest of the Earth
14 Then I looked, and there was a
white cloud, and sitting on the cloud
was what looked like a human
being, with a crown of gold on his
head and a sharp sickle in his hand. note
15 Then another angel came out from
the temple and cried out in a loud
voice to the one who was sitting on
the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap
the harvest, because the time has
come; the earth is ripe for the harvest!” note
16 Then the one who sat on the
cloud swung his sickle on the earth,
and the earth's harvest was reaped.
17 Then I saw another angel come
out of the temple in heaven, and he
also had a sharp sickle.
18 Then another angel, who is in
charge of the fire, came from the altar.
He shouted in a loud voice to the
angel who had the sharp sickle, “Use
your sickle, and cut the grapes from
the vineyard of the earth, because
the grapes are ripe!”
19 So the angel
swung his sickle on the earth, cut
the grapes from the vine, and threw
them into the wine press of God's furious
anger.
20 The grapes were
squeezed out in the wine press outside
the city, and blood came out of
the winepress in a flood two hundred
miles long and about five feet
deep. note
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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