Revelation for Everyone by Nicholas Thomas Wright

Author:Nicholas Thomas Wright [Wright, Nicholas Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780281064632
Google: t1mxygAACAAJ
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2011-11-15T00:25:10.164522+00:00

REVELATION 13.1–10

A First Monster

1Then I saw a monster coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads. Each of the ten horns was wearing a coronet, and blasphemous names were written on the heads. 2The monster I saw was like a leopard, with bear’s feet and a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave the monster its power and its throne and great authority. 3One of the heads appeared to have been slaughtered and killed, but its fatal wound had been healed. The whole earth was awed and astonished by the monster, 4and worshipped the dragon because it had given the monster its authority. They worshipped the monster too. ‘Who is like the monster?’ they were saying. ‘Who can fight against it?’ 5And the monster was given a mouth that speaks great, blasphemous words, and was given authority for forty-two months. 6It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, to curse his name and his dwelling place – that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7It was granted the right to make war against God’s holy people and to defeat them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and language and nation. 8So everyone who lived on earth worshipped it – everyone, that is, whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the lamb who was slaughtered.

9If anyone has ears, let them hear!

10If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed. This is a summons for God’s holy people to be patient and have faith.

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