Revelation 20 Cross References - NSB

¹ I saw an angel come down from heaven. He had the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. ² He seized the dragon, the old serpent that is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³ He hurled him into the bottomless pit, and shut it and sealed it over him. He could not deceive the nations anymore till the thousand years ended. After that he must be let loose for a little while. ⁴ I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I also saw the people who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image. They had not received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. ⁵ [The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.] (Not found in older manuscripts.) This is the first resurrection. ⁶ Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them. They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall rule as kings with him for the thousand years. ⁷ When the thousand years end, Satan will be let loose out of his prison. ⁸ Satan will go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. The number of these is as the sand of the sea (too great to count). ⁹ They advanced over the broad plain of the earth, and encircled the camp of the holy ones, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven and devoured (consumed) them. ¹⁰ The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are, and will be tormented day and night forever. ¹¹ I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it. From before him the earth and heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. ¹² I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. The books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to their works. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead in it. Death and the grave delivered up the dead in them. Every man was judged according to his works. ¹⁴ Death and the grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵ Whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled (thrust) (thrown) into the lake of fire.

³¹ They pleaded with him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.

⁴ God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to captivity in pits of darkness reserved for judgment!

⁶ Angels who did not keep their position left their proper habitation. He has kept them in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

¹⁸ »I am alive! I was dead and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen. I have the keys of death and the grave.

¹ The fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth. The key of the bottomless pit was given to him. ² He opened the bottomless pit. Smoke came out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. The smoke from the pit darkened the sun and the air.

¹ I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven. He was clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was upon his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

¹ After these things I saw another angel come down from heaven. He had great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

¹⁵ »And I will put enmity (hostility) (hatred) between you and the woman, and between your offspring (seed) and hers. He will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) you in the head, and you will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) him in the heel.« (Romans 16:20)

⁷ Jehovah asked him: »What have you been doing?« Satan answered: »I have been walking here and there and roaming around the earth.«

¹ One day when the sons of God came to present themselves in front of Jehovah, Satan the Accuser came along with them. ² Jehovah asked Satan: »Where have you come from? Satan replied to Jehovah: From wandering all over the earth.«

¹ In that day Jehovah will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword. He will slay Leviathan the fleeing, coiling serpent, the monster of the sea.

²⁴ »Can the prey be taken from the strong man? Can the captives be rescued from the tyrant?« ²⁵ Certainly Jehovah says: »The captives of the strong man will be taken away. The prey of the tyrant will be rescued. I will contend with the one who grapples with you and I will save your sons.

²⁹ They screamed at him, saying: »What have we to do with you, Son of God? Have you come to torment us before the time?«

²⁹ »Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

⁷ Crying out with a loud voice, he said: »What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the highest God? In God’s name do not torment me!«

²⁰ »If I use the finger (power) (Spirit) (Exodus 31:18) (2 Corinthians 3:3) of God to cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you? ²¹ »When the fully armed strong man guards his own palace, his goods are safe. ²² »When some one stronger comes to him and overpowers him he takes away his armor and steels his possessions.

³¹ »Now judgment is on this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

¹¹ »And third, of judgment because the prince of this world has been judged.

²⁰ The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

¹⁴ Since the »children« are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.

⁸ Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion walks about, seeking whom he may devour (consume).

¹¹ The angel of the bottomless pit was their king. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

⁹ The great dragon was thrown down, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels with him.

¹³ When the dragon saw that he was thrown to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male-child.

¹⁵ The serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.

¹⁷ The dragon was furious with the woman and waged war with the remnant of her seed. These are the ones who obey the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

² The beast I saw looked like a leopard. His feet were like the feet of a bear. His mouth was like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority.

⁴ Men worshiped the dragon that gave power to the beast. They worshiped the beast, saying: »Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?«

⁴ In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night.

¹⁷ A stone was placed over the mouth of the den. The king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

²⁴ »There will be false Christs and false prophets. They will show great signs and wonders so that many will be misled. This includes some of the chosen ones.

⁶⁶ So they made the tomb secure. They sealed the stone and placed a guard there.

³ But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) that is toward Christ.

¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder for even Satan fashions himself into an angel of light. ¹⁵ It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

⁹ The evil (lawless) one will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false signs and wonders. ¹⁰ He will use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved. ¹¹ So God dispatches the power of deceit (error) to work in them so that they are allowed to believe what is false.

⁸ Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Psalm 90:1, 4)

¹⁴ And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles he had power to do in the sight of the beast. He says to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and yet lives.

¹⁴ They are demonic spirits, working signs, which go to the kings of the earth, of the whole world. They gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ¹⁵ »Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his outer garment, that he does not walk naked and they see his shame.« ¹⁶ He gathered them together to a place called in the Hebrew tongue Har-Magedon.

² »with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.«

⁸ »The beast that you saw was, and is not. It will ascend out of the pit and go into destruction. They who dwell on the earth will wonder, those whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

¹ I saw an angel come down from heaven. He had the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

⁷ When the thousand years end, Satan will be let loose out of his prison. ⁸ Satan will go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. The number of these is as the sand of the sea (too great to count). ⁹ They advanced over the broad plain of the earth, and encircled the camp of the holy ones, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven and devoured (consumed) them. ¹⁰ The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are, and will be tormented day and night forever.

⁴⁴ »In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. Its sovereignty will not be entrusted to another people. It will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it will stand forever!

⁹ »I watched as thrones were placed. The ANCIENT OF DAYS sat on one throne. His clothing was white as snow. His hair was like pure wool. His throne was like fiery flames, and the wheels on it were like burning fire.

¹⁸ ‘»The holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom. They will possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’

²² »Then the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the holy ones of the Most High, and the time came that the holy ones possessed the kingdom. (Revelation 5:10; 20:4, 6)

²⁷ ‘»The kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people who are the holy ones of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom! All dominions (legal authorities) will serve and obey him.’

⁵ »Behold! I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible Day of Jehovah comes.

¹⁰ His disciples asked him: »Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?« ¹¹ In answer he said: »Elijah truly has to come and put all things right. ¹² »I tell you that Elijah has come. They did not know him and treated him badly as they pleased. They will do the same with the Son of man.« ¹³ Then the disciples saw that he was telling them about John the Baptist.

²⁸ Jesus replied: »Truly I say to you, when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁰ »Many will stumble and betray and hate one another.

¹⁶ Herod said: »It is John whom I beheaded, raised from the dead.«

²⁷ He immediately commanded his guard to behead John the Baptist and bring his head to him.

¹¹ Then they asked him how is it that the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

¹⁷ »He will go before God in the spirit and power of Elijah. He will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness. This will make ready a people whose hearts have been directed to Jehovah (YHWH).« (Malachi 3:1)

⁷ Herod the ruler of Galilee heard of all that was done and was very perplexed (confused) (skeptical). Some said John the Baptist was raised from the dead and that he did it. ⁸ Others said that Elijah had appeared and others and that one of the old prophets had risen again. ⁹ Herod said: »I beheaded John, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?« He wanted to see him.

³⁰ »Just as you eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹⁹ »A little while and the world will not see me anymore, but you will. I live and you will also live.

¹⁷ If children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him we may also be glorified with him.

¹⁵ If their rejection means reconciliation for the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

² Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if you will judge the world, are you unworthy to judge these small matters? ³ Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the matters that pertain to this life?

¹² If we endure, we will also reign with Him. If we deny him, He will deny us!

⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in tribulation and kingdom and perseverance (patience) of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

²¹ »'To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me on my throne, even as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

⁹ They sing a new song, saying: »You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you bought persons for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. ¹⁰ »You made them kings and priests to our God. They will reign as kings over the earth.«

⁹ When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the persons who were slaughtered because of the word of God, and for the witness they gave.

³ »I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.«

⁷ When they finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them and conquer them, and kill them.

¹¹ After three and a half days the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet. Great fear fell upon all who saw them.

¹⁵ The seventh angel blew his trumpet. There were great voices in heaven, saying: »The kingdom of the world has become our God’s, and his Christ will rule as king forever and ever.«

¹¹ They conquered (overcame) him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives when faced with death.

¹² He exercises all the authority of the first beast that came ahead of him. The second beast causes the earth and those who live there to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³ He performed great signs, so that he made fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. ¹⁴ And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles he had power to do in the sight of the beast. He says to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and yet lives. ¹⁵ He had power to give breath to the image of the beast and to make that image of the beast speak. He caused many to be killed, those who would not worship the image of the beast. ¹⁶ And he forces all persons, the great and the small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. ¹⁷ No one could buy or sell without the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name.

¹¹ »The smoke of their torment will ascend forever and ever. They who worship the beast and his image and receive the mark of his name have no rest day or night.

² I saw what looked like a sea of glass mingled with fire. Those who were victorious over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having harps (written Word) of God.

⁶ Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them. They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall rule as kings with him for the thousand years.

⁵ There will be no night there. They need no lamp, neither light of the sun, for Jehovah God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

² He caused me to pass among them round about. There were very many on the surface of the valley and they were very dry. ³ He said to me: »Son of man, can these bones live?« I answered, »O Lord Jehovah, you know.« ⁴ »‘Again he said: »Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah. ⁵ »‘The Lord Jehovah says to these bones: »I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. ⁶ »‘I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive. You will know that I am Jehovah.«’« ⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling. The bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ I looked, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them. But there was no breath in them. ⁹ Then Jehovah said to me: »Prophesy to the wind (ruach: air, breath, spirit, life)! Prophesy, son of man. Tell the wind, this is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe on these people who were killed so that they will live.«’« ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath of life entered them. Then they came to life and stood on their feet. There were enough of them to form a very large army. ¹¹ Jehovah also said: »Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed. ¹² Prophesy and tell them: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »My people, I will open your graves and take you out of them. I will bring you to Israel. ¹³ Then, my people, you will know that I am Jehovah, because I will open your graves and bring you out of your graves.«’ ¹⁴ ‘I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. I will place you in your own land. Then you will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I have done it,’ declares Jehovah.«

¹⁴ »You will be blessed because they are not able to pay you back. God will repay you on the day the good people rise from death.«

¹¹ I wish to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

²⁰ The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur. ²¹ The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the one who sat on the horse. All the birds were filled with their flesh.

⁸ Satan will go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. The number of these is as the sand of the sea (too great to count). ⁹ They advanced over the broad plain of the earth, and encircled the camp of the holy ones, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven and devoured (consumed) them.

³ It will come about that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy along with everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

⁶ »You will be called the priests of Jehovah. You will be spoken of as ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, you will boast in their riches.

¹² »Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days.

¹⁵ One of the guests at the table then said to Jesus: »Those who sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God will be happy!«

¹ I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

⁵ You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God’s own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

⁶ He made us to be a kingdom of kings and priests to his God and Father. To him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

¹¹ »'He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.'

¹⁰ »You made them kings and priests to our God. They will reign as kings over the earth.«

¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven say: »Write: Blessed are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time forward: Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.«

⁴ I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I also saw the people who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image. They had not received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. ⁵ [The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.] (Not found in older manuscripts.) This is the first resurrection.

¹⁴ Death and the grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

⁸ »But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.«

⁷ »Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who obeys the words of the prophecy of this book.«

² He seized the dragon, the old serpent that is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

¹² The Midianites, the Amalekites, and the desert tribesmen were spread out in the valley like a swarm of locusts. They had so many camels they could not be counted. They were as plentiful as there are grains of sand on the seashore.

⁵ The Philistines assembled to fight Israel. They had thirty thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and as many soldiers as the sand on the seashore. They camped at Michmash, east of Beth Aven.

²⁰ The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore. They ate and drank and were very happy.

²² Your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea. Yet only a remnant within them will return. Overwhelming and righteous destruction has been decreed.

²² »‘I will increase the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who serve me in the same way as the stars of heaven that cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore that cannot be measured.’«

¹ The word of Jehovah came to me:

¹ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Son of man, denounce Gog, the chief ruler of the nations of Meshech and Tubal. »Tell him that I am his enemy.

¹² This was to come from one man and him as good as dead. There were born children, as many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as uncountable as the sand by the seashore.

¹⁴ They are demonic spirits, working signs, which go to the kings of the earth, of the whole world. They gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

³ He hurled him into the bottomless pit, and shut it and sealed it over him. He could not deceive the nations anymore till the thousand years ended. After that he must be let loose for a little while.

¹⁰ The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are, and will be tormented day and night forever.

²⁴ Jehovah made burning sulfur and fire rain out of the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.

²³ Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky. Then Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴ It hailed, and lightning flashed while it hailed. This was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

² A fire flashed from Jehovah and burned them. They died in the presence of Jehovah. ³ Moses said to Aaron: »This is what Jehovah was speaking about when he said: ‘All who serve me must respect my holiness. I will reveal my glory to my people.’« But Aaron remained silent.

¹ The people complained out loud to Jehovah about their troubles. Jehovah heard them and he became angry. Fire from Jehovah burned among them. It destroyed some people on the outskirts of the camp.

³⁵ Fire came from Jehovah and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

¹⁰ »If I am a man of God,« Elijah answered: »Let fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!« At once fire came down and killed the officer and his men. ¹¹ The king sent another officer with fifty men, who went up and said to Elijah: »Man of God, the king orders you to come down at once!« ¹² »Since I am a man of God,« Elijah answered: »let fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!« At once the fire of God came down and killed the officer and his men. ¹³ Once more the king sent an officer with fifty men. He went up the hill, fell on his knees in front of Elijah, and pleaded: »Man of God, be merciful to my men and me. Spare our lives! ¹⁴ »The other officers and their men were killed by fire from heaven. Please, please be merciful to me!« ¹⁵ The angel of Jehovah (YHWH) said to Elijah: »Go down with him. Do not be afraid of him.« So Elijah went with the officer to the king.

¹⁵ Early the next morning Elisha's servant got up and went out of the house. He saw the Syrian troops with their horses and chariots surrounding the town. He went to Elisha and said: »Alas my master what shall we do?«

¹ ([Sons of Korah]) Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, his sacred mountain. ² His situation if beautiful. Mount Zion is the joy of the whole earth. The city of the great King is in the far reaches of the north. ³ God is in his citadel. He has made himself known.

² Remember your congregation, which you purchased long ago. For you have redeemed it to be the tribe of your inheritance, Mount Zion, in which you have lived. ³ Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. ⁴ Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

³ A fire goes before him and burns up his enemies round about.

¹⁸ A fire broke out among their followers. Flames burned up wicked people.

¹ They who trust in Jehovah are like Mount Zion. It is not shaken, but remains forever. ² As the mountains are all around Jerusalem, so Jehovah is all around his people from this time and forever.

⁷ »That is why Jehovah is going to bring against them the raging and powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River, that is, the king of Assyria with all his power. It will overflow all its channels and go over all its banks. ⁸ »It will sweep through Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will be neck-high. Its outspread wings will extend over your entire country, O Immanuel.«

³³ Topheth was prepared long ago. It was made ready for the king. It was made deep and wide and piled high with plenty of burning logs. Jehovah’s breath will be like a flood of burning sulfur, setting it on fire.

³⁶ The angel of Jehovah put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. The people got up the next morning and saw all the dead bodies!

⁹ ‘»You will go up like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land. You your troops will have many peoples with you.«’

¹⁶ »‘You will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.«’

²² »‘With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment on him. I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.

⁶ »‘I will start a fire in the land of Magog and along all the seacoasts where people live undisturbed. Everyone will know that I am Jehovah!

¹³ »The breaker (one who opens the breach) (one that breaks through) has gone ahead of them. They will pass through the gate and go out by it. Their king will lead them with Jehovah at the head of them.«

⁶ »Behold, I bring the Chaldeans to power, that bitter and impetuous nation. They march through the expanse of the earth to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered: »You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!« ¹⁷ Jesus answered him: »Bless you, Simon son of John. This knowledge came from my Father in heaven and not from man. ¹⁸ »You are Peter (Greek: petros: piece of rock), and on this rock-mass (Greek: petra: mass of rock) (referring to Jesus) I will build my congregation. The entrance to the grave (Greek: Hades) will not have power to stop it.

⁵⁴ When his disciples James and John saw this they said: »Lord, do you want us to request fire from heaven to consume them?«

²⁹ »But when Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

⁴³ »The time is coming when your enemies will surround you and blockade you with a rampart (wall) on all sides. They will close in on you.

²⁰ »When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies you will know that desolation is near.

⁸ They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

¹³ Let us therefore go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

⁵ If any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth, and devours their enemies. If any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

¹³ He performed great signs, so that he made fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.

⁴¹ »Then he will tell those on his left: ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the ever-burning fire that is prepared for the Devil and his [fallen] angels.

⁴⁶ »These will go away into ever-burning fire (everlasting cutting off) (death) (total destruction) (doom) (punishment) (everlasting penalty), but the righteous to everlasting life.’«

¹⁰ »the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation. He will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. ¹¹ »The smoke of their torment will ascend forever and ever. They who worship the beast and his image and receive the mark of his name have no rest day or night.

¹³ I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

²⁰ The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

² He seized the dragon, the old serpent that is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³ He hurled him into the bottomless pit, and shut it and sealed it over him. He could not deceive the nations anymore till the thousand years ended. After that he must be let loose for a little while.

⁸ Satan will go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. The number of these is as the sand of the sea (too great to count).

¹⁴ Death and the grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵ Whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled (thrust) (thrown) into the lake of fire.

²⁵ »Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?«

⁶ »He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble. ⁷ Yet, Jehovah lives forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment. ⁸ He alone judges the world with righteousness. He judges its people fairly.

⁶ They put the advice of oppressed people to shame because Jehovah is their protection. ⁷ If only salvation for Israel would come from Zion! When Jehovah restores his captive people, Jacob will rejoice. Israel will be glad.

⁸ God rules over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.

¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before you.

² Clouds, gloom and darkness are all around Him. Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

²³ I see the earth. It is without form and empty. I see the sky. Its lights are gone. ²⁴ I see the mountains. They tremble and the hills sway. ²⁵ I see that there are no people, and every bird has flown away. ²⁶ I see that the fertile land has become a desert. Its cities are torn down because of Jehovah and his burning anger.

³⁵ »The iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broke in pieces together. It became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors. The wind carried them away and no place was found for them. The stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

³⁵ »Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

³¹ »When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.

³⁰ »God overlooked the times of ignorance; but now he commands men everywhere to repent. ³¹ »He has established a day (time) in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man [Jesus] whom he has ordained. Of that he gives proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.« (John 5:22) (Isaiah 2:4) (Acts 10:42)

⁵ Thanks to your stubborn and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

⁷ According to the same word, the heavens that now are, and the earth, are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁰ The day of Jehovah will come as a thief. The heavens will pass away with a great noise. The elements shall be dissolved with intense heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up (destroyed). (Joel 2:31) (Zephaniah 1:14) ¹¹ Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved (destroyed), what manner of persons should you be in all holy living and godliness? ¹² Look for and earnestly desire the coming presence of the »Day of Jehovah.« (Zephaniah 1:14) The heavens being on fire will be dissolved (destroyed), and the elements will melt with intense heat!

² Immediately I was in the spirit. In front of me was a throne in heaven and someone sat on the throne.

¹⁴ The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled together. Every mountain and island was moved from their places.

⁸ The dragon lost and no place in heaven was found for him any longer.

²⁰ Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

¹¹ I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse; and he who sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

¹ I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. There was no more sea.

⁴ Pay them back for what they have done, for their evil deeds. Pay them back for what their hands have done, and give them recompense.

¹² Loving-kindness belongs to you, O Jehovah. You reward a person based on what he has done.

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

¹² You may say: »We did not know this,« but God knows and judges your motives. He keeps watch on you and knows. He will reward each man according to his deeds.

²⁹ Do not say: »I will do to him as he has done to me. I will render to the man according to his work.«

¹⁴ For God will bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it is good or whether it is evil.

¹⁰ »I, Jehovah, search the heart and examine the mind (inner man). I give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.

¹⁹ »You are great in counsel and mighty in deed. Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men. You give to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

¹⁰ »A fiery stream issued from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set and the books were opened.

¹ »At that time Michael will stand up. He is the great prince who stands for the children of your people. There will be a time of trouble that has not happened since the beginning of nations. Then your people will be delivered, every one whos name is found written in the book. ² »Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

²⁷ »The Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels. He will then reward each man according to his deeds.

²⁰ »Do not rejoice about this that the spirits are subject to you. Rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.«

²⁸ »Do not wonder about this for the hour is coming when everyone in the grave will hear his voice. ²⁹ »They will return. Those who did good will have the resurrection of life. Those who did evil will receive the resurrection of judgment.

²⁵ Jesus said: »I am the resurrection and the life. He who puts active faith in me will live, even if he dies. ²⁶ »Whoever lives and puts active faith in me will never die. Do you believe this?«

¹⁵ »I have hope toward God, which they also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

⁶ He will render to each according to his works.

¹⁰ Why do you judge your brother? Why do you look down on your brother with contempt? We will all stand before the judgment seat of God (Theos). ¹¹ It is written: As I live, says Jehovah, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will acknowledge (confess to) Jehovah. (Isaiah 45:23) ¹² So then every one of us will give account of himself to God.

⁵ Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man’s praise will come from God.

²¹ Death came because of what one man did. The resurrection of the dead also comes because of what one man did. ²² In Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. ²³ Everyone will be raised to life in the right order: Christ the first fruits and afterward those who belong to Christ at the time of his coming.

¹⁰ We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad.

³ Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the good news, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

¹⁵ We tell you this by God’s Word, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ We that are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so will we ever be with the Lord.

²³ »'I will kill her children with deadly plague. Then all the congregations will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds. I will reward each of you for what you have done.

⁵ »'He who overcomes will be clothed in white garments. I will not blot out his name from the book of life. In fact I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

¹⁸ »The nations were angry. Your wrath (indignation) has come! It is time to judge the dead, to reward your servants the prophets, the holy ones, and those who reverence your name the small and the great. Time to destroy (exterminate) (eradicate) those who destroy the earth.«

⁸ All the citizens of earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life who was slain from the foundation of the world.

⁵ Then a voice came from the throne. It said: »Praise our God, all you his servants, and you who reverence him, both small and great.«

¹¹ I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it. From before him the earth and heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

¹³ The sea gave up the dead in it. Death and the grave delivered up the dead in them. Every man was judged according to his works.

²⁷ Nothing impure will ever enter it. The shameful and deceitful will not enter. Only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life will enter.

¹² »'Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work.

¹⁹ But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

¹⁴ »I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death! O death, where are your stings (plagues)? O grave, where is your destruction (devastation)? Compassion will be concealed from my eyes. (1 Co 15:54-57)

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Corruption may not inherit incorruption. ⁵¹ Behold, I show you a secret. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last reverberation of the trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ When this corruptible shall be clothed with (Greek: enduo: dressed, put on) incorruption, and this mortal shall be clothed with immortality, then the saying will come true: »Death is swallowed up in victory.« ⁵⁵ »O death, where is your sting (power to hurt)? O grave, where is your victory?« ⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks to God, because he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable. Always have plenty to do in the work of the Lord, for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

⁸ I looked, and there was a pale horse. The name of the one who sat on him was Death. The grave followed him. Power was given to them over a fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with pestilence, and with the beasts of the earth.

¹² I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. The books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to their works.

²⁶ The last enemy to be destroyed will be death. (Revelation 20:14)

⁵³ This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

¹⁵ Whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled (thrust) (thrown) into the lake of fire.

⁴ »God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.«

⁴² »The angels will cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁵⁰ »The wicked will be cast into the furnace of fire where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁴³ »If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better to enter into life maimed then, having two hands to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the Valley of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna) ⁴⁴ (spurious, but included in King James Version, »Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.«) ⁴⁵ »If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is good for you to enter into life with only one foot, rather than having two feet to be cast into the ever-burning fires of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction) ⁴⁶ (The same wording as verse 44, spurious: Tischendorf’s Spurious Passages) ⁴⁷ »If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is good for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom. ⁴⁸ (»For the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.« Questionable passage.)

¹⁶ »He who believes and is baptized will be saved. He who does not believe will be condemned.

¹⁸ »He who has an active faith in him is not judged. He who does not have an active faith has been judged already for he has not had faith in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ »This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

³⁶ »He who puts active faith in the Son has everlasting life. He who disobeys* the Son will not see life for the wrath of God remains upon him.« (*Greek: apeitheo: willfully disobey, not having faith)

⁶ Jesus proclaimed: »I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through me.

¹² »There is no salvation in anyone else. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.«

³ How shall we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first presented by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

²⁵ Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!

¹¹ The testimony is this that God gave us everlasting life and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.