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The fall of Babylon.

CHAP. XVIII, XIX.

Merchants, &c. lament. their power and strength unto the beast. | weep and mourn over her; for no man 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, buyeth their merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and king of kings; and and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine they that are with him are called, and linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of chosen, and faithful. 15 And he saith unto me, The waters ivory, and all manner vessels of most prewhich thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, cious wood, and of brass, and iron, and are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, marble,

13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointand tongues. 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest ments, and frankincense, and wine, and upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and shall make her desolate and naked, and and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. slaves, and souls of men. 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

CHAP. XVIII.

AND after these things I saw another

14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

15 The merchants of these things which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off, for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

16 And saying, Alas, alas! that great angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lighten- city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold, ed with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong and precious stones, and pearls! voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every ship-master, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornica19 And they cast dust on their heads, tion with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas! that great city, wherein were of her delicacies. made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.

7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall

see no sorrow.

8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire for strong is the Lord God who judgeth

her.

20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great mill-stone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a mill-stone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the 9 And the kings of the earth, who have bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard committed fornication and lived deliciously no more at all in thee: for thy merchants with her, shall bewail her, and lament for were the great men of the earth; for by her, when they shall see the smoke of her thy sorceries were all nations deceived. burning.

10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas! that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

11 And the merchants of the earth shall

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

CHAP. XIX.

AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, say

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The marriage of the Lamb.

REVELATION.

The first resurrection. ing, Alleluia: Salvation, and glory, and ther unto the supper of the great God; honour, and power, unto the Lord our 18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, God: and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of

2 For true and righteous are his judg, mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and ments: for he hath judged the great whore, of them that sit on them, and the flesh of which did corrupt the earth with her forni- all men, both free and bond, both small and cation, and hathi avenged the blood of his great. servants at her hand.

19 And I saw the beast, and the kings

3 And again they said, Alleluia. And of the earth, and their armies, gathered toher smoke rose up for ever and ever. gether to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped 20 And the beast was taken, and with God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; him the false prophet that wrought miracles Alleluia. before him, with which he deceived them

5 And a voice came out of the throne, that had received the mark of the beast, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and them that worshipped his image. and ye that fear him, both small and great. These both were cast alive into a lake of 6 And I heard as it were the voice of a fire burning with brimstone.

great multitude, and as the voice of many 21 And the remnant were slain with the waters, and as the voice of mighty thunder- sword of him that sat upon the horse, which ings, saying, Alleluia for the Lord God sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all omnipotent reigneth. the fowls were filled with their flesh. CHAP. XX.

7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

AND I saw an angel come down from

heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, 9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, are they which are called unto the mar- that he should deceive the nations no more, riage-supper of the Lamb. And he saith till the thousand years should be fulfilled; unto me, These are the true sayings of and after that he must be loosed a little God.

season.

10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon And he said unto me, See thou do it not them, and judgment was given unto them: I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy bre- and I saw the souls of them that were bethren that have the testimony of Jesus: headed for the witness of Jesus, and for the worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is word of God, and which had not worshipthe Spirit of prophecy. ped the beast, neither his image, neither 11 And I saw heaven opened, and be- had received his mark upon their foreheads, hold, a white horse; and he that sat upon or in their hands; and they lived and him was called Faithful and True, and in reigned with Christ a thousand years. righteousness he doth judge and make war. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and until the thousand years were finished. on his head were many crowns; and he This is the first resurrection. had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his pri

son,

15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp 8 And shall go out to deceive the nasword, that with it he should smite the na- tions which are in the four quarters of the tions and he shall rule them with a rod of earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them toiron and he treadeth the wine-press of gether to battle: the number of whom is as the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. the sand of the sea.

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16 And he hath on his vesture and on 9 And they went up on the breadth of his thigh a name written, KING OF the earth, and compassed the camp of the KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. saints about, and the beloved city: and fire 17 And I saw an angel standing in the came down from God out of heaven, and sun; and he cried with a loud voice, say-devoured them.

ing to all the fowls that fly in the midst of 10 And the devil that deceived them was heaven, Come, and gather yourselves toge- cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,

A new heaven and earth.

CHAP. XXI.

The heavenly Jerusalem. where the beast and the false prophet are, to a great and high mountain, and shewed and shall be tormented day and night for me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, deever and ever. scending out of heaven from God,

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper-stone, clear as crystal; 12 And had a wall great and high, and 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve stand before God; and the books were angels, and names written thereon, which opened and another book was opened, are the names of the twelve tribes of the which is the book of life: and the dead were children of Israel. judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 On the east, three gates; on the north, three gates; on the south, three 13 And the sea gave up the dead which gates; and on the west, three gates. were in it; and death and hell delivered 14 And the wall of the city had twelve up the dead which were in them: and they foundations, and in them the names of the were judged every man according to their twelve apostles of the Lamb. works.

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

CHAP. XXI.

AND I saw a new heaven and a new
ND I saw a new heaven and a new

first earth were passed away; and there

was no more sea.

2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

15 And he that talked with me, had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.

17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

IS And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

3 And I heard a great voice out of 19 And the foundations of the wall of the heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of city were garnished with all manner of preGod is with men, and he will dwell with cious stones. The first foundation was them, and they shall be his people, and jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a God himself shall be with them, and be chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sar

their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears dius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, from their eyes; and there shall be no more beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the shall there be any more pain: for the for- twelfth, an amethyst. mer things are passed away.

5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

6 And he said unto me, It is done. am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl; and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers and sorcerers, and idolaters, and 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut all liars, shall have their part in the lake at all by day: for there shall be no night which burneth with fire and brimstone: there.

which is the second death.

26 And they shall bring the glory and

9 And there came unto me one of the honour of the nations into it. seven angels, which had the seven vials full 27 And there shall in no wise enter into of the seven last plagues, and talked with it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but the bride, the Lamb's wife. they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

10 And he carried me away in the spirit

Nothing may be added or

CHAP. XXII.

REVELATION. taken from the word of God. filthy still and he that is righteous, let him

AND he shewed me a pure river of wa- be righteous still and he that is holy, let ter of life, clear as crystal, proceeding him be holy still. out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 12 And behold, I come quickly; and 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on my reward is with me, to give every man either side of the river, was there the tree according as his work shall be. of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginand yielded her fruit every month: and the ning and the end, the first and the last. leaves of the tree were for the healing of the 14 Blessed are they that do his comnations. mandments, that they may have right to 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the tree of life, and may enter in through the throne of God and of the Lamb shall the gates into the city. be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face; and his and whoremongers, and murderers, and name shall be in their foreheads. idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh

15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers,

5 And there shall be no night there; a lie. and they need no candle, neither light of 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testithe sun; for the Lord God giveth them fy unto you these things in the churches. light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. I am the root and the offspring of David, 6 And he said unto me, These sayings and the bright and morning-star. are faithful and true. And the Lord God 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew Come. And let him that heareth say, unto his servants the things which must Come. And let him that is athirst come: shortly be done. And whosoever will, let him take the water

7 Behold, I come quickly blessed is he of life freely. that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this 8 And I John saw these things, and book, If any man shall add unto these heard them. And when I had heard and things, God shall add unto him the plagues seen, I fell down to worship before the feet that are written in this book:

of the angel which shewed me these things. 19 And if any man shall take away from 9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it the words of the book of this prophecy, not: for I am thy fellow-servant, and of God shall take away his part out of the thy brethren the prophets, and of them book of life, and out of the holy city, and which keep the sayings of this book: wor- from the things which are written in this ship God. book.

10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the 20 He which testifieth these things saith, sayings of the prophecy of this book: for Surely I come quickly: Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

the time is at hand.

11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ still and he which is filthy, let him be be with you all. Amen.

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END OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

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CREATION

Formation of Man

The Fall.

Death of Abel

GENESIS.

Generations of Adam

The Ark

The Deluge

Waters assuaged
Death of Noah

Noah's generations
Babel built

Call of Abram
Abram and Lot

Battle of the kings
Abram's faith
Departure of Hagar
Circumcision

Abraham and the angels
Destruction of Sodom
Abraham denieth Sarah
Isaac is born
Isaac offered up
Death of Sarah

Isaac and Rebekah meet
Abraham's death
Isaac blessed
Jacob and Esau

Jacob's vision and vow
Jacob marrieth Rachel
Birth of Joseph .
Departure of Jacob
Jacob and the angel
Jacob and Esau meet
The Shechemites slain
Jacob's altar at Beth-el
Generations of Esau
Joseph sold by his brethren
Judah's incest

Joseph and his mistress
Pharaoh's butler, &c.
Pharaoh's dreams

Joseph's brethren in Egypt
Joseph entertains his brethren
Joseph's policy to his brethren

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