Revelation 17:8 Cross References - Moffatt

⁸ The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss — yet to perdition he shall go — and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming.

³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

²⁴ Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

¹⁸ who makes this known from of old.

⁴ He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

³ Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One, ⁴ the adversary who vaunts himself above and against every so-called god or object of worship, actually seating himself in the temple of God with the proclamation that he himself is God. ⁵ Do you not remember I used to tell you this when I was with you? ⁶ Well, you can recall now what it is that restrains him from being revealed before his appointed time. ⁷ For the secret force of lawlessness is at work already; only, it cannot be revealed till he who at present restrains it is removed. ⁸ Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival —

² serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago —

²⁰ He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake;

⁵ 'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

¹ The fifth angel blew, and I saw a Star which had dropped from heaven to earth; he was given the key of the pit of the abyss, ² and he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke poured out of the pit, like the smoke of a huge furnace, till the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

⁷ But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,

¹ Then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a Beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads. ² The Beast I saw resembled a leopard, his feet were like a bear's, and his mouth like a lion's. To him the dragon gave his own power and his own throne and great authority. ³ One of his heads looked as if it had been slain and killed, but the deadly wound was healed, and the whole earth went after him in wonder, ⁴ worshipping the dragon for having given authority to the Beast, and worshipping the Beast with the cry, "Who is like the Beast? Who can fight with him?" ⁵ He was allowed to utter loud and blasphemous vaunts, and allowed to exert authority for two and forty months; ⁶ so he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling (that is, the dwellers in heaven). ⁷ He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation; ⁸ and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life. ⁹ Let anyone who has an ear listen: — ¹⁰ Whoever is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes: whoever kills with the sword, by the sword must he be killed. This is what shows the patience and the faith of the saints. ¹¹ Then I saw another Beast rising from the land; he had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. ¹² He exerts the full authority of the first Beast in his presence, causing the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

⁸ And another, a second angel followed, crying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her vice!" ⁹ They were followed by another, a third angel, crying aloud, "Whoever worships the Beast and his statue, and lets his forehead or hand be marked, ¹⁰ he shall drink the wine of God's passion, poured out untempered in the cup of his anger, and shall be tortured with fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb: ¹¹ the smoke of their torture rises for ever and ever, and they get no rest from it, day and night, these worshippers of the Beast and his statue, and all who are marked with his name." ¹² This is what shows the patience of the saints — they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus. ¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: — 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit — blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'" ¹⁴ Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud One resembling a human being, a golden crown upon his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, shouting aloud to him who sat upon the cloud, "Thrust your sickle in and reap, the time has come to reap, the harvest of earth is ripe and ready." ¹⁶ So he who sat upon the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped. ¹⁷ Then another angel came out of the temple, he too with a sharp sickle; ¹⁸ and another angel came from the altar — he who has power over fire — and called loudly to the one who had the sharp sickle, "Thrust your sharp sickle in, cull the clusters from the Vine of earth, for its grapes are fully ripe." ¹⁹ So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and culled the clusters from the Vine of earth, flinging the grapes into the great winepress of God's wrath; ²⁰ outside the City was the winepress trodden, and blood gushed out of the winepress as high as a horse's bridle for the space of two hundred miles.

¹ Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on earth." ² So the first went off and poured his bowl upon the land; and noisome, painful ulcers broke out on those who bore the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue. ³ The second poured out his bowl upon the sea; it turned blood like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing within the sea perished. ⁴ The third poured out his bowl upon the rivers and fountains of water, and they turned blood. ⁵ Then I heard the angel of the waters cry, "O holy One, who art and wast, just art thou in this thy sentence. ⁶ They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!" ⁷ And I heard the altar cry, "Even so, Lord God almighty: true and just are thy sentences of doom." ⁸ The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun; and the sun was allowed to scorch men with fire, ⁹ till men, scorched by the fierce heat, blasphemed the name of the God who had control of these plagues; yet they would not repent and give him glory. ¹⁰ The fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the Beast; his realm was darkened, and men gnawed their tongues in anguish, ¹¹ blaspheming the God of heaven for their pains and their ulcers, but refusing to repent of their doings. ¹² The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its waters were dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east. ¹³ Then I saw issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the Beast and from the mouth of the false Prophet, three foul spirits like frogs — ¹⁴ demon-spirits performing miracles, who come out to muster the kings of the whole world for battle on the great Day of almighty God. ¹⁵ (Lo, I am coming like a thief; blessed be he who keeps awake and holds his raiment fast, not to go naked and have the shame of exposure!) ¹⁶ And they were mustered at the spot called (in Hebrew) Harmagedon. ¹⁷ The seventh angel poured out his bowl in the air; then came a loud voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne, crying, "All is over!" ¹⁸ followed by flashes of lightning, loud blasts, peals of thunder, and a mighty earthquake, the like of which never was since man lived on earth, such a mighty earthquake it was;

¹¹ As for the Beast which was and is not, he is an eighth head: he belongs to the seven, and to perdition he shall go.

¹⁵ A sharp sword issues from his lips, wherewith to smite the nations; he will shepherd them with an iron flail, and trample the winepress of the passion of the anger of God almighty. ¹⁶ And on his robe, upon his thigh, his name is written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. ¹⁷ Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, who shouted aloud to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather for the great banquet of God, ¹⁸ to devour the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of the strong, the flesh of horses and their riders, the flesh of all men, free and slaves, low and high alike." ¹⁹ And I saw the Beast and the kings of earth and their troops mustered to wage war on him who was seated on the horse and on his troops. ²⁰ But the Beast was seized, together with the false Prophet who had performed in his presence the miracles by means of which he seduced those who received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue; both of them were flung alive into the lake of fire that blazes with brimstone, ²¹ while the rest were killed by the sword of him who is seated on the horse, by the sword that issues from his lips. And all the birds were glutted with their flesh.

¹⁰ and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened — also another book, the book of Life, was opened — and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

¹⁵ and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire — which is the second death, the lake of fire.