THE REVELATION OF JESUS IN POETRY

By Glenn Pease

The first 19 chapters are paraphrased in poetry. This was done almost 20 years ago

before I realized it was not cool to put everything in capitals, so forgive my doing so.

Hopefully some passages will become clearer to you in poetic form.

THE REVELATION OF JESUS

WHICH GOD GAVE HIM TO SHOW.

WHAT SOON WILL TAKE PLACE BEFORE US

WHICH HE WANTS US TO KNOW.

BLESSED ARE ALL WHO READ THIS BOOK

AND TAKE GOD'S WORD TO HEART.

FOR BY HIS GRACE GOD LETS US LOOK

AND SEE THE FUTURES CHART.

II

FIRST, GRACE AND PEACE FROM HIM WHO IS

WHO WAS AND IS TO COME.

FROM JESUS THE FAITHFUL WITNESS

WHOSE LIFE MADE DEATH SUCCUMB.

THE FIRST BORN FROM THE DEAD IS HE

RULER OF KINGS ON EARTH.

LOVES US ALL AND SETS US FREE

HIS BLOOD GAVE US NEW BIRTH.

III

A KINGDOM AND PRIESTS HE MADE US

THAT HIS GOD WE MIGHT SERVE.

GLORY AND POWER TO JESUS,

FROM HIS FACE NEVER SWERVE.

LOOK, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS

EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM.

HE'LL BE SEEN EVEN BY THOSE CROWDS

WHO MADE HIS LIFE SO DIM.

IV

I'M THE ALPHA AND OMEGA

THE ONE WHO IS AND WAS.

WHEN I COME SHOUT HALLELUJAH

I'LL SAVE EACH ONE WHO DOES.

I AM THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY

LORD OF ALL MEN ON EARTH.

BUT THROUGH JOHN MY TESTIMONY

COMES TO THOSE OF NEW BIRTH.

V

ON PATMOS ON THAT GREAT LORD'S DAY

JOHN HEARD A MIGHTY VOICE.

TELL SEVEN CHURCHES ALL I SAY

SO EACH MIGHT HAVE A CHOICE.

A CHOICE TO OBEY CHRIST THE LORD

WHO THEN APPEARED TO JOHN.

THIS VISION JOHN THAN DID RECORD

THAT HIS EYES FELL UPON.

VI

THERE STOOD SEVEN GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS

THERE TOO THE SON OF MAN.

A ROBE REACHED TO HIS FEET AND HANDS

AROUND HIS CHEST, GOLDEN BAND.

HIS HEAD AND HAIR WERE WHITE LIKE WOOL

AS WHITE AS ANY SNOW.

HIS EYES LIKE BLAZING FIRE WERE FULL

HIS FEET WERE ALL AGLOW.

VII

HIS VOICE LIKE RUSHING WATERS SOUND

AS HE HELD SEVEN STARS.

OUT OF HIS MOUTH CAME TO ASTOUND

A SWORD TO LEAVE GREAT SCARS.

HIS FACE WAS SHINING LIKE THE SUN

IT WAS A AWESOME SIGHT.

I THOUGHT RIGHT THERE MY LIFE WAS DONE

AND FELL AS DEAD FROM FRIGHT.

VIII

BUT HE PUT HIS HAND UPON ME

AND SAID BE NOT AFRAID.

ONCE DEAD, I LIVE ETERNALLY

THE PRICE FOR SIN I'VE PAID.

I AM THE VERY FIRST AND LAST

I AM THE LIVING ONE.

ALL FEAR OF DEATH AND HELL ARE PAST

FOR I THEIR KEYS HAVE WON.

IX

RIGHT THEREFORE OF WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN

OF WHAT'S NOW AND TO COME.

TELL ALL WHAT THESE MYSTERIES MEAN

THAT NO ONE NEED BE DUMB.

THOSE SEVEN STARS IN MY RIGHT HAND

THE CHURCHES ANGELS ARE.

AND YOU WILL SEE IN EACH LAMPSTAND

A CHURCH NOT UP TO PAR.

REVELATION 2

WRITE TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH

IN THE CITY OF EPHESUS.

WORDS FROM HIM DOES WHO DOES EVER SEARCH

THE HEARTS OF MEN, JE-E-SUS.

SEVEN STARS HELD IN HIS RIGHT HAND

AS AMONG CHURCHES HE WALKS.

THEY ARE SEVEN GOLDEN LAMP STANDS

AND TO THEM CHRIST JESUS TALKS.

II

I KNOW YOUR DEEDS AND YOUR HARD WORK

AND I KNOW YOU PERSEVERE.

WICKED MEN I KNOW THAT YOU SHIRK

AND YOU TEST THOSE NOT SINCERE.

YOU HAVE ENDURED MUCH FOR MY NAME

AND YOU HAVE NOT GROWN WEARY.

YET I MUST CONDEMN JUST THE SAME

YOU'VE FORSAKEN LOVE FOR ME.

III

REMEMBER FROM WHAT YOU'VE FALLEN

REPENT, DO THE THINGS YOU DID.

RETURN NOW TO YOUR FIRST CALLIN'

REPENT LEST YOUR LIGHT BE HID.

I CAN REMOVE YOU FROM YOUR PLACE

SO GET BUSY DO NOT WAIT.

IN YOUR FAVOR YOU WON'T EMBRACE

PRACTICES I ALSO HATE.

IV

THE WORDS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

TO ALL THOSE WHO OVERCOME.

LET ALL WHO HAVE EARS NOW HEAR IT

GOD'S BEST STILL IS YET TO COME.

HE WILL GIVE US THE RIGHT TO EAT

FROM THE VERY TREE OF LIFE.

IN GOD'S PARADISE HE WILL TREAT

US TO A WORLD WITHOUT STRIFE.

V

TO THE ANGEL NOW IN SMYRNA

WITH THESE WORDS FROM HIM WHO IS.

FIRST AND LAST AND WHO DID TURN A

WIN FROM EVIL INTO HIS.

HE WHO DIED AND YET IS ALIVE

SAYS I UNDERSTAND YOUR PAIN.

I KNOW YOU SUFFER AS YOU STRIVE

BUT YOUR LOSS IS REALLY GAIN.

VI

YOU ARE RICH THOUGH YOU FEEL SO POOR

DON'T LET SLANDER GET YOU DOWN.

SATAN WILL ON YOU HIS WRATH POUR

BUT FROM ME YOU'LL GET A CROWN.

LISTEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

HE WHO GIVES ALL LIFE AND BREATH.

OVERCOMERS NEED NOT FEAR IT

THEY'LL ESCAPE THE SECOND DEATH.

VII

TO THE ANGEL IN PERGAMUM

WRITE THESE WORDS THAT COME FROM HIM.

WHOSE POWER IS OH SO AWESOME

WITH HIS SWORD SO SHARP AND SLIM.

I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE IN DANGER

SATAN HAS HIS THRONE RIGHT THERE.

YET TO YOU I'M NOT A STRANGER

YOU BOLDLY MY NAME DECLARE.

VIII

EVEN AT GREAT RISK YOU ARE TRUE

LIKE MY FAITHFUL ANTIPAS.

SATAN COULD NOT HIS FAITH SUBDUE

HE COULD DIE FOR ME WITH CLASS.

STILL I HAVE SOME THINGS AGAINST YOU

FOR YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO HOLD.

TEACHINGS THAT ARE BAD YET NOT NEW

BUT JUST LIKE BALAAM'S OF OLD.

IX

HE TAUGHT BALAK HOW TO ENTICE

ISRAEL INTO EATING FOOD.

WHICH HAD BEEN IDOL SACRIFICE

AND IMMORAL SEX INCLUDE.

OTHER AWFUL TEACHINGS YOU HOLD

OF THESE THINGS YOU MUST REPENT.

OR I'LL COME WITH SWORD AND BE BOLD

AND MY ANGER ON THEM VENT.

X

HE WHO HAS AN EAR NOW HEAR IT

TO ALL THOSE WHO OVERCOME.

THIS PROMISE IS FROM THE SPIRIT

AND IT ADDS TO QUITE A SUM.

HIDDEN MANNA AND A WHITE STONE

ON IT WRITTEN YOUR NEW NAME.

THIS IS PRIVATE AND ONLY KNOWN

TO THOSE WHO THIS PROMISE CLAIM.

XI

THE ANGEL IN THY-A-TI-RA

WRITE THESE WORDS FROM GOD'S OWN SON.

WHOSE EYES ARE LIKE BLAZING FIRE, AH!

AND WHOSE FEET LIKE BURNISHED BRONZE.

I KNOW YOUR DEEDS YOUR FAITH AND LOVE

THAT YOU SERVE AND PERSEVERE.

AND IN THIS YOU DON'T NEED A SHOVE.

FOR YOU HAVE GROWN EVERY YEAR.

XII

BUT STILL THERE IS THIS AGAINST YOU

JEZEBEL YOU TOLERATE.

SHE TEACHES MEN LUST TO PURSUE

AND WITH IDOLS TO RELATE.

TIME TO REPENT I HAVE GIVEN

BUT SHE IS UNWILLING TO.

THOSE WHO SIN CAN BE FORGIVEN

BUT FOR JUDGEMENT SHE IS DUE.

XIII

ON A BED OF PAIN I WILL CAST

HER AND ALL WHO GO HER WAY.

THOSE WHO DON'T REPENT OF THEIR PAST

I WILL IN JUDGEMENT REPAY.

HER CHILDREN WITH DEATH I WILL STRIKE

JUST AS WITH EGYPT'S FIRST BORN.

THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT I AM LIKE

AND NO LONGER MY WORD SCORN.

X1V

NOW TO ALL WHO DO NOT HEED HER

AND DO NOT HER SECRETS LEARN.

NO MORE BURDEN YOU WILL INCUR

JUST HOLD FAST TILL I RETURN.

OVERCOMERS WHO DO MY WILL

WILL OVER THE NATIONS RULE.

WITH AUTHORITY I WILL FILL

THEY'LL BE LIKE AN IRON TOOL.

XV

NATIONS WILL BE DASHED TO PIECES

IF THEY TO CHRIST WILL NOT BOW.

OUR POWER EVER INCREASES

IF TO HIM WE KEEP OUR VOW.

CHRIST WILL GIVE US THE MORNING STAR

WHEN WE REIGN WITH HIM ON HIGH.

LET NOTHING IN LIFE THIS HOPE JAR

HEAR HIS WORD AND THEN COMPLY.

REV.3

NOW TO THE ANGEL IN SARDIS

WRITE THESE WORDS OF HIM WHO HOLDS.

GOD'S SEVEN SPIRITS THAT ARE HIS

AND SEVEN STARS TO BEHOLD.

YOUR DEEDS AND YOUR REPUTATION

YOU HAVE OF BEING ALIVE.

IS CLEARLY EXAGGERATION

YOU ARE DEAD BUT CAN SURVIVE.

II

IF YOU WAKE UP, GIVE ATTENTION

TO THE THINGS ABOUT TO DIE.

IF YOU LABOR FOR COMPLETION

OF THOSE THINGS THAT CATCH GOD'S EYE.

REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED

OBEY IT AND THEN REPENT.

IF YOU SLEEP AND REMAIN DECEIVED

LIFE MAY END QUITE VIOLENT.

III

YET IN SARDIS THERE ARE A FEW

WHO HAVE NOT SOILED THEIR GARMENTS.

THEY WALK WITH ME IN WHITE LIKE NEW

WORTHY ARE THEY, NO ARGUMENTS.

HE WHO OVERCOMES WILL LIKE THEM

BE EVER DRESSED UP IN WHITE.

HIS NAME WILL EVER BE A GEM

ALWAYS IN GOD'S BOOK AND SIGHT.

IV

AND NOW TO PHIL-A-DEL-PHI-A

WRITE FROM HIM HOLY AND TRUE.

HE WHO HOLDS THE KEY OF DAVID

LORD OF BOTH GENTILE AND JEW.

WHAT HE OPENS NO ONE CAN SHUT

AND IF SHUT, NO ONE OPEN.

LIFE CAN BE TOTALLY MESSED, BUT

HE'S THE ONE ALL CAN HOPE IN.

V

I KNOW YOUR DEEDS AND I HAVE PLACED

AND OPEN DOOR BEFORE YOU.

I KNOW THE WEAKNESS YOU HAVE FACED

BUT TO MY NAME YOU'VE BEEN TRUE.

I WILL BRING YOUR FOES BEFORE YOU

MAKING THEM AT YOUR FEET FALL.

ACKNOWLEDGING THAT I LOVE YOU

BECAUSE ON ME YOU DO CALL.

VI

SINCE YOU HAVE KEPT ALL I COMMAND

AND ENDURE SO PATIENTLY.

I WILL SAVE YOU FROM TRIALS SO GRAND

EVERY LAND ON EARTH WILL SEE.

I AM COMING SOON, NOW HOLD ON

LET NOBODY TAKE YOUR CROWN.

OVERCOME, LOOK TO THE BEYOND

TO THAT TEMPLE WHERE YOU'RE BOUND.

VII

THERE I WILL MAKE YOU A PILLAR

NEVER MORE IN SIN TO ROAM.

WHAT I WRITE WON'T JUST BE FILLER

IT WILL SPELL ETERNAL HOME.

ON EACH OVERCOMER I'LL WRITE

GOD'S NAME AND MY OWN NEW NAME.

AND THE CITY OF GOD'S PURE LIGHT

LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

VIII

THE CHURCH IN LA-OD-I-CE-A

WRITE THESE WORDS FROM THE AMEN.

HE IS EVER FAITHFUL AS THE

TRUE WITNESS OF ALL THAT'S BEEN.

RULER OF ALL GOD'S CREATION

HE KNOWS ALL THE DEEDS OF MEN.

HE KNOWS YOU'RE NOT A SENSATION

AND YOUR NOT WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN.

1X

YOU ARE NOT COLD AND YOU'RE NOT HOT

BUT SADLY YOU ARE LUKE WARM.

I CAN NOT TOLERATE SUCH ROT

SPITTING OUT I MUST PERFORM.

YOU ARE BRAGGING ON YOUR RICHES

YOU SAY I DON'T NEED A THING.

THE DEVIL MUST BE IN STITCHES

AS YOU TO THIS BLINDNESS CLING.

X

YOU'RE SO POOR AND BLIND AND NAKED

AND YOU DO NOT REALIZE.

YOU'RE SO PITIFUL AND WRETCHED

TRAPPED BY WHAT YOU IDOLIZE.

COME TO ME AND BUY TRUE RICHES

WITH WHITE CLOTHES COVER YOUR SHAME.

DON'T BE FOOLED BY SATAN'S PITCHES

GET LIFE'S GOLD FOR WHICH I CAME.

XI

GET MY SALVE THAT OPENS YOUR EYES

SEE MY LOVE IN MY REBUKE.

LET DISCIPLINE EXPAND YOU SIZE

DON'T SEE IT AS JUST A FLUKE.

HEAR ME WHEN I KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR

HEAR MY VOICE AND LET ME IN.

WE CAN FELLOWSHIP AS BEFORE

EATING AS ONE, JUST LIKE KIN.

XII

TO HIM WHO OVERCOMES I GIVE

THE RIGHT TO SIT ON MY THRONE.

LIKE MY FATHER I'M POSITIVE

I'LL SHARE EVERYTHING I OWN.

HE WHO HAS AN EAR NOW HEAR IT

GOD WANTS ALL CHURCHES TO SEE.

EVILS STRONG BUT DO NOT FEAR IT

FOCUS ON ETERNITY.

REVELATION 4

I LOOKED, BEHOLD A OPEN DOOR

LIKE A TRUMPET CAME A VOICE.

COME UP AND SEE WHAT IS IN STORE

AND YOUR HEART WILL THEN REJOICE.

AND THERE BEFORE ME ON HIS THRONE

ENCIRCLED BY A RAINBOW.

GOD SAT AMIDST TWENTY FOUR THRONES

AND LIKE LIGHTENING HE DID GLOW.

II

I COULD HEAR THE PEALS OF THUNDER

LIGHTNING FLASHED ACROSS THE SKY.

AND MY HEART WAS FILLED WITH WONDER

THAT I LIVED AND DID NOT DIE.

IT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME VISION

THERE WE ELDERS DRESSED IN WHITE.

BEAUTY WITH PERFECT PRECISION

EVERYTHING WAS CLOTHED IN LIGHT.

III

THE ELDERS HAD THERE CROWNS OF GOLD

AND SEVEN LAMPS WERE BLAZING.

THESE ARE SPIRITS OF GOD I'M TOLD

IT WAS TRULY AMAZING.

THERE WAS ALSO A SEA LIKE GLASS

AND IT WAS LIKE CRYSTAL, CLEAR

NO VIEW ANYWHERE COULD SURPASS

WHAT THE LORD LET ME SEE HERE.

IV

PLUS, THERE WERE FOUR LIVING CREATURES

FRONT AND BACK COVERED WITH EYES.

AND THEY EACH HAD SPECIAL FEATURES

THAT GAVE ME QUITE A SURPRISE.

FOR THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION

THE SECOND WAS LIKE AN OX.

FOURTH WAS LIKE AN EAGLE FLY'N

THE THIRD WAS A PARADOX.

V

THE THIRD HAD THE FACE OF A MAN

MAKING HIM A VITAL PART.

OF THE CREATORS TOTAL PLAN

TO MAKE ALL LIFE ONE IN HEART.

THEY WERE AS ONE WITH SIX WINGS EACH

COVERED WITH EYES ALL AROUND.

WITH EACH HAVING THE GIFT OF SPEECH

THEY EVER IN PRAISE ABOUND.

VI

THEY SING HOLY, HOLY, HOLY

IS OUR GOD ALMIGHTY LORD.

WAS, IS AND TO COME BOLDLY

AND BY ALL TO BE ADORED.

ALL THE ELDERS FALL BEFORE HIM

AND THEY EACH CAST DOWN THEIR CROWNS.

THEY JOIN THE UNIVERSAL HYMN

AND SOMETHING LIKE THIS IT SOUNDS.

VII

YOU ARE WORTHY, WORTHY, WORTHY

TO RECEIVE GREAT PRAISE FROM ALL.

FOR THEY EXIST BY YOUR DECREE

FROM THE BIGGEST TO THE SMALL.

SO POWER, HONOR AND GLORY

BELONG OUR GREAT TO YOU.

IT WILL BE THE ENDLESS STORY

ALL CREATION WILL PURSUE.

REVELATION 5

THEN I SAW ON THE RIGHT HAND

OF HIM WHO SAT ON THE THRONE.

A SCROLL WITH WRITINGS SO GRAND

BUT IT SEEMED THEY'D STAY UNKNOWN.

I SAW A MIGHTY ANGEL

PROCLAIMING IN A LOUD VOICE.

WHO'LL BREAK THE SEALS ON THE SCROLL

BUT NO ONE COULD MAKE THAT CHOICE.

II

I WEPT FOR NO ONE WAS FOUND

WORTHY FOR A LOOK INSIDE.

THEN ONE ELDER DID EXPOUND

ON THE ONE WHO'S HEAVENS PRIDE.

LION OF THE JUDAH TRIBE

THE ROOT OF DAVID IS HE.

SO GLORIOUS TO DESCRIBE

HE ALONE THE SCROLLS COULD SEE.

III

THEN I SAW A LAMB AS SLAIN

IN THE CENTER OF THE THRONE.

CREATURES AND ELDERS AGAIN

WERE ENCIRCLED ROUND THAT ZONE.

SEVEN HORNS AND SEVEN EYES

SYMBOLIC OF GOD'S SPIRIT.

WHOM GOD SENDS FROM PARADISE

SO ALL ON EARTH CAN HEAR IT.

IV

THE LAMB CAME AND TOOK THE SCROLL

ALL AROUND THE THRONE FELL DOWN.

EACH WITH HARP AND INCENSE BOWL

FILL'D HEAVEN WITH THIS NEW SOUND.

YOU ARE WORTHY TO OPEN

ALL THE SEALS OF THE SCROLL.

YOUR DEATH GAVE NEW LIFE TO MEN

BY YOUR BLOOD THEY ARE MADE WHOLE.

V

FROM EVERY TRIBE AND NATION

BY THE POWER OF NEW BIRTH.

PRIESTHOOD IS THERE VOCATION

AND THEY'LL REIGN WITH CHRIST ON EARTH.

THEN ANGELS WITHOUT NUMBER

JOINED WITH ALL IN A LOUD VOICE.

NO SOUL IN HEAV'N COULD SLUMBER

FOR IN CHRIST THEY MUST REJOICE.

VI

SINGING WORTHY IS THE LAMB

WHO FOR ALL MANKIND WAS SLAIN.

WORTHY WITH THE GREAT I AM

TO IN HEAVEN EVER REIGN.

WORTHY TO RECEIVE ALL PRAISE

POWER, GLORY, WEALTH AND STRENGTH.

WISDOM OF ANCIENT OF DAYS

HONOR ENDLESS WITHOUT LENGTH.

REV. 6

I WATCHED AS THE LA-MB OPENED

THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN SEALS.

THEN A VOICE LIKE THUNDER HAPPENED

COME!, A LIVING CREATURE SQUEALS.

I LOOKED AND THERE STOOD BEFORE ME

A RIDER ON A WHITE HORSE.

BOW AND CROWN MADE IT PLAIN TO SEE

HE WAS ON A CONQUEST COURSE.

II

WHEN THE LAMB OPENED THE NEXT SEAL

COME! SAID THE LIVING CREATURE.

A FIERY RED HORSE CAME TO STEAL

THIS WAS IT'S MAJOR FEATURE.

IT'S RIDER HAD THE GREAT POWER

TO TAKE PEACE FROM ALL THE EARTH.

HE PRODUCED AN AWESOME HOUR

LIFE ON EARTH HAD LITTLE WORTH.

III

THEN THE LAMB OPENED THE THIRD SEAL

THE LIVING CREATURE SAID COME.

A BLACK HORSE HE THEN DID REVEAL

WITH SCALES THAT LOOKED CUMBERSOME.

A COURT OF WHEAT FOR DAYS WAGES

I HEARD THEIR SHOUT LIKE A VOICE.

THREE QUARTS BARLEY FOR DAYS WAGES

OIL AND WINE DON'T HURT BY CHOICE.

IV

WHEN THE LAMB OPENED THE FOURTH SEAL

THERE CAME THEN A HORSE SO PALE.

IT'S NAMES WAS DEATH, IT WAS SO REAL

HADES FOLLOWED ON IT'S TAIL.

THEY WERE GIVEN POWER TO KILL

BY FAMINE, THE PLAGUE AND SWORD.

THEY WOULD ONE FORTH OF EARTH'S BLOOD SPILL

MEN WOULD BY WILD BEAST BE GORED.

V

WHEN THE LAMB OPENED THE FIFTH SEAL

I SAW UNDER THE ALTER.

THOSE SOULS OF THE SLAIN WHO WITH ZEAL

DIED, RATHER THAN TO FALTER.

IN A LOUD VOICE THEY CALLED OUT, LORD!

HOW MUCH LONGER MUST WE WAIT.

WHITE ROBES WERE NOW THEIR FIRST REWARD

FULL REWARD AT LATER DATE.

VI

WHEN THE LAMB OPENED THE SIXTH SEAL

THERE WAS A GIANT EARTHQUAKE.

THE SUN TURNED BLACK, IT WAS UNREAL

AS THE HEAVENS TOO DID SHAKE.

FALLING STARS WERE EVERYWHERE SEEN

THE WHOLE MOON HAD TURNED BLOOD RED.

IT WAS A CAT-A-CLYSM-IC SCENE

MOUNTAINS AND ISLANDS HAD FLED.

VII

THEN EVERY CLASS OF MAN ON EARTH

HIDE IN CAVES AMONG THE ROCKS.

IN FEAR THEY NO LONGER FELT MIRTH

BUT WERE CAUGHT IN PARADOX.

SAVE US FROM THE WRATH OF THE LAMB

THEY LONGED TO HIDE FROM HIS FACE.

ALL THE LIVED FOR WAS NOW A SHAM

THEY HAD MISSED THE DAY OF GRACE.

REV.7

AFTER THIS FOUR ANGELS I SAW

AT EARTH'S FOUR CORNERS THEY STOOD.

THEIR GREAT POWER FILLED ME WITH AWE

NO WIND COULD BLOW WHERE IT WOULD.

THE AN ANGEL CRIED OUT, DON'T HARM!

LAND OR SEA OR ANY TREE.

FOR ALL GOD'S SERVANTS WE MUST ARM

WITH A SEAL THAT ALL CAN SEE.

II

THE NUMBER OF ALL WHO WERE SEALED

FROM EACH OF THE ISRAEL'S TRIBES.

WAS TWELVE THOUSAND IT WAS REVEALED

BY AWESOME ANGELIC SCRIBES.

ONE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR THOUSAND

WAS NOT ALL THAT I DID SEE.

FOR THEN A MULTITUDE SO GRAND

NO CROWD GREATER THERE COULD BE.

III

FROM EVERY PLACE ON EARTH THEY STAND

AS THEY WEAR THEIR ROBES OF WHITE.

PALM BRANCHES THEY HOLD IN THEIR HAND

SINGING OUT WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT.

SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD

AND THE LAMB UPON THE THRONE..

NO ANGEL WAS GOING TO BE ODD

THEY JOINED IN WITH PRAISE THEIR OWN.

IV

AMEN, PRAISE AND GLORY THEY SANG

AND WISDOM, HONOR AND THANKS.

FROM THIS ANGELIC CHORUS RANG

GOD'S GREAT POWER ALL OUTRANKS.

AMEN, PRAISE AND GLORY EVER

THEY WOULD GO TO ANY LENGTH.

TO WISH GOD IN EACH ENDEAVOR

MAY YOU EVER GROW IN STRENGTH.

V

THEN A ELDER ASKED THE QUESTION

WHO ARE THESE IN ROBES OF WHITE.

THEN I OFFERED THIS SUGGESTION

YOU KNOW, SO YOU SET ME RIGHT.

THESE CAME OUT OF TRIBULATION

THEY HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES IN BLOOD.

THE LAMB GAVE THEM HIS SALVATION

THEY NOW WITH PRAISE HEAVEN FLOOD.

VI

IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD THEY SERVE

BEFORE HIS THRONE NIGHT AND DAY.

GOD WILL EVER LOVE AND PRESERVE

AND FOR THEM HIS GRACE DISPLAY.

THEY WILL NEVER HUNGER OR THIRST

THEY'LL NEVER SUFFER FROM HEAT.

THEY HAVE SUFFERED THIS LOST WORLDS WORST

NOW THEIR REWARD IS COMPLETE.

VII

FOR THE LAMB WILL BE THEIR SHEPHERD

TO LIVING WATER WILL LEAD.

REFRESHING SPRINGS LIKE NONE HAVE HEARD

WILL NOW MEET THEIR EVERY NEED.

GOD WILL WIPE EVERY TEAR AWAY

THEY'LL NEVER APPEAR IN EYES.

NO SHEEP WILL FROM THEIR SHEPHERD STRAY

LIFE WILL BE ENDLESS SURPRISE.

REV.8

WHEN HE OPENED THE SEVENTH SEAL

SILENCE LASTED HALF AN HOUR.

THEN SEVEN ANGELS WITH GREAT ZEAL

BLEW SEVEN TRUMPETS WITH POWER.

AN ANGEL WITH GOLDEN CENSER

CAME AND STOOD AT THE ALTAR.

HE WITH MUCH INCENSE TO OFFER

BECAME A PRAYER EXALTER.

II

THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS ROSE LIKE SMOKE

UP TO GOD WITH THE INCENSE.

HE THREW FIRE THEN TO PROVOKE

AWFUL EARTHLY VIOLENCE.

PEALS OF THUNDER, FLASHING LIGHTNING

RUMBLINGS AND A GREAT EARTHQUAKE.

IT WAS A SCENE TRULY FRIGHTENING

SUCH SCENES ONLY GOD COULD MAKE.

III

THEN SEVEN ANGELS WITH TRUMPET

PREPARED TO GIVE OUT THEIR SOUND.

WHEN THE FIRST BLEW IT DID BEGET

HAIL, FIRE, BLOOD TO EARTH THROWN DOWN.

ONE THIRD OF THE EARTH WAS BURNED UP

ONE THIRD OF THE TREES BURNED TOO.

ALL GREEN GRASS WAS ALSO BURNED UP

AFTER THIS FIRST ANGEL BLEW.

IV

THEN THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED

A HUGE MOUNTAIN ALL ABLAZE.

INTO THE SEA IT WAS POUNDED

THE CONSEQUENCES AMAZE.

BLOOD BECAME ONE THIRD OF THE SEA

ONE THIRD OF ALL CREATURES DIED.

ONE THIRD OF SHIPS BECAME DEBRIS

DESTRUCTION WAS FAR AND WIDE.

V

THEN THE THIRD SOUNDED HIS TRUMPET

BLAZING STAR FELL FROM THE SKY.

IT POISONED SO MANY WATERS

CAUSING THOSE TO DRINK IT, DIE.

WHEN THE FOURTH BLEW THE SUN WAS STRUCK

MOON AND STARS WERE TOO STRUCK DARK.

ONE THIRD OF ALL LIGHT HE DID CHUCK

ONE THIRD OF LIGHT LOST IT'S SPARK.

VI

AS I WATCHED I HEARD AN EAGLE

FLYING IN MID AIR CALL OUT.

NEWS MEN WISH WAS ILLEGAL

IT WAS A BLOOD-CURD-LING SHOUT.

WOE! WOE! WOE! TO THOSE ON THE EARTH

THE WORST IS STILL YET TO COME.

THOSE WHO HAVE NOT THE SECOND BIRTH

HAVE GOOD REASON TO BE GLUM.

ROM THEIR SHEPHERD STRAY

LIFE WILL BE ENDLESS SURPRISE.

REVELATION 9

THE FIFTH ANGLE BLEW HIS TRUMPET

THEN I SAW A STAR THAT FELL.

A KEY IT WAS ALLOWED TO GET

TO AN ABYSS SO LIKE HELL.

SMOKE ROSE FROM IT LIKE A FURNACE

IT DARKENED THE SUN AND SKY.

LOCUSTS CAME OUT AND IN EARNEST

BEGAN EARTH TO OCCUPY.

II

FOR FIVE MONTHS THEY HAD THE POWER

NOT TO KILL BUT TO TORTURE.

THOSE NOT SEALED FOR THIS HOUR

SO JUDGEMENT THEY MUST ENDURE.

IT WAS LIKE A SCORPION STING

IT PRODUCED GREAT AGONY.

MEN LONG FOR WHAT DEATH CAN THEN BRING

BUT THIS RELIEF WILL NOT BE.

III

LIKE HORSES PREPARED FOR BATTLE

THESE LOCUSTS WORE CROWNS OF GOLD.

THEY WERE NOT BEASTS OR CATTLE

THEIR FACE WAS OF HUMAN MOLD.

THEIR HAIR WAS LIKE A WOMAN'S HAIR

TEETH WERE LIKE A LION'S TEETH.

THE SOUND OF THEIR WINGS COULD MEN SCARE

BREAST PLATES WRAPPED ABOUT LIKE WREATHS.

IV

IN THEIR TAILS THEY CARRIED TORMENT

JUST LIKE SCORPIONS THEIR STING.

FOR FIVE MONTHS THEY'D MAKE MEN LAMENT

WITH APOLLYON THEIR KING.

HE THE ANGEL OF THE ABYSS

IN HEBREW IT'S ABADDON.

NOW TWO WOES MUST COME AFTER THIS

THE FIRST WOE IS PAST AND GONE.

V

THE SIXTH ANGEL BLEW HIS TRUMPET

I HEARD A VOICE FROM THE HORNS

IT SAID TO HIM WITH THAT TRUMPET

LET THEM TO FREEDOM BE BORN.

THE FOUR ANGELS AT EUPHRATES

BY THIS GREAT RIVER ARE BOUND.

SET THEM FREE TO DO AS THEY PLEASE

WITH DEADLY TROOPS THEY ABOUND.

VI

TWO HUNDRED MILLION THEIR NUMBER

TO KILL ONE THIRD OF MANKIND

HORSES, RIDERS BREATHING SULPHUR

WITH COLORS TO BLOW THE MIND.

LION-HEADED HORSES I SAW

AND FROM THEIR MOUTH CAME OUT FIRE

ONE THIRD OF MANKIND TO DEATH DRAW

BY PLAGUES, FIRE, SMOKE AND SULPHUR.

VII

BY THEIR MOUTH AND BY THEIR TAILS

THEY INFLICTED INJURY.

BUT EVEN SUCH HORROR FAILS

TO STOP MAN'S IDOLATRY.

IDOLS CANNOT HEAR,WALK OR SEE

THEY ARE THE WORK OF MAN'S HANDS

PERSISTENT IMMORALITY

IS WHAT REBEL MAN DEMANDS.

REV.10

THEN I SAW A MIGHTY ANGEL

FROM THE HEAVENS COMING DOWN.

SUCH BEAUTY HAD NO PARALLEL

CLEARLY HE HAD GREAT RENOWN.

WITH A RAINBOW ABOVE HIS HEAD

HIS BODY ROBED IN A CLOUD.

FACE LIKE SUN AND LEGS FIRY RED

WITH A LION VOICE SO LOUD.

II

A LITTLE SCROLL LAID IN HIS HAND

RIGHT FOOT PLANTED ON THE SEA.

HIS LEFT FOOT WAS PLANTED ON LAND

BUT NONE IN THAT SCROLL COULD SEE.

THE VOICE OF SEVEN THUNDERS SPOKE

BUT JOHN COULD NOT WRITE IT DOWN.

A VOICE FROM HEAVEN DID REVOKE

SEAL THOSE WORDS DON'T WRITE A NOUN.

III

THEN THE ANGEL RAISED HIS RIGHT HAND

AND HE SWORE BY HIM WHO LIVES.

HE WHO CREATED SEA AND LAND

AND LIFE TO ALL CREATURES GIVES.

THERE WILL NOW BE NO MORE DELAY

BUT THE DAYS WILL NOW ARRIVE.

GOD'S MYSTERIES HE WILL CONVEY

WHAT PROPHETS SEEN WILL REVIVE.

IV

THEN THE VOICE SPOKE TO ME ONCE MORE

GO AND TAKE THE OPEN SCROLL.

THEN THE ANGEL DID ME IMPLORE

TAKE THE SCROLL AND EAT IT WHOLE.

IT WILL TURN YOUR STOMACH SOUR

IN YOUR MOUTH IT WILL BE SWEET.

SO I ATE AND GOD GAVE POWER

TO HIS PROPHECY REPEAT.

REV.11

I WAS GIVEN A REED MEASURE

AND TO GOD'S TEMPLE TO GO.

COUNTING THOSE WHOM DID TREASURE

FOR THEY IN HIS WORSHIP GLOW.

THE TEMPLE AND ALSO ALTAR

MEASURE, BUT THIS DO EXCLUDE.

THE GENTILE COURT THAT IS OUTER

THEY FOR MONTHS WILL TREAT IT RUDE.

II

MY TWO WITNESSES HAVE POWER

TO PROPHESY MANY DAYS.

THEY STOOD LIKE TWO TREES FOR HOURS

LIKE TWO LAMPS ON GOD THEY GAZE.

IF ANYONE TRIES TO HARM THEM

SUCH ENEMIES MUST THEN DIE..

OUT FROM THEIR MOUTH COMES NOT WET PHLEGM

BUT FIRE TO MAKE THEM FRY.

III

THESE HAVE POWER TO SHUT THE SKY

SO THAT IT WILL CEASE TO RAIN.

ALL THE LAWS OF NATURE DEFY

FILLING EARTH WITH EVERY PAIN.

THEN WITH THEIR TESTIMONY DONE

THERE COMES UP FROM THE ABYSS.

THE BEAST WHO HAS CARE FOR NO ONE

KILLING THEM WITHOUT REMISS.

IV

THERE BODIES LIE IN THAT CITY

SODOM, EGYPT, WHERE CHRIST DIED.

NO ONE IN THE WORLD TOOK PITY

THEY REJOICED IN HOMICIDE.

BUT AFTER THREE AND ONE HALF DAYS

GOD GAVE THEM THE BREATH OF LIFE.

STANDING UP THEY DID ALL AMAZE

TERROR STRUCK THEM LIKE A KNIFE.

V

THEN FROM HEAVEN CAME A LOUD VOICE

FORSAKE EARTH AND COME UP HERE.

THEY WERE HAPPY THIS WAS GOD'S CHOICE

AS IN CLOUDS THEY DISAPPEAR.

AT THAT VERY HOUR AND EARTHQUAKE

CREATED SCENES SO GORY.

SEVEN THOUSAND LIVES IT DID TAKE

BUT GOD DID RECEIVE GLORY.

VI

THE SEVENTH ANGEL THEN SOUNDED

LOUD VOICES IN HEAVEN SAID.

THE KINGDOM BY THIS WORLD FOUNDED

IS NOW CHRIST'S KINGDOM INSTEAD.

HE WILL REIGN EVER AND EVER

ALL THE ELDERS WORSHIPPED HIM.

THANKING YOU WE CAN CEASE NEVER

YOUR POWER WILL NEVER DIM.

VII

YOU HAVE TAKEN YOUR GREAT POWER

AND YOU HAVE BEGUN TO REIGN.

NATIONS IN ANGER TURN SOUR

JUDGMENT DAY IS SUCH A PAIN.

IT'S TIME FOR JUDGING ALL THE DEAD

AND TO REWARD ALL YOUR SAINTS.

THOSE WHO WERE DESTROYERS NOW DREAD

FOR YOUR WRATH HAS NO RESTRAINTS.

VIII

THEN GOD'S TEMPLE THERE IN HEAVEN

OPENED TO REVEAL THE ARK.

GOD MADE A COVENANT WITH MEN

GOING BACK TO PATRIARCH.

THEN THERE CAME FLASHES OF LIGHTNING

RUMBLINGS AND PEALS OF THUNDER.

EARTHQUAKE AND HAIL STORM FRIGHTENING

LEFT ME IN AWE AND WONDER.

REV.12

THEN IN HEAVEN APPEARED A SIGN

WONDROUS IT WAS TO BEHOLD.

A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUNSHINE

ALL AROUND IT LOOKED LIKE GOLD.

SHE HAD THE MOON UNDER HER FEET

CROWN OF TWELVE STARS ON HER HEAD.

HER TIME TO GIVE BIRTH WAS COMPLETE

BUT ONE WANTED HER CHILD DEAD.

II

IT WAS AN ENORMOUS DRAGON

WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS.

DRAGGING HIS TAIL LIKE A WAGON

HE DESTROYED WHAT HEAV'N ADORNS.

ON HIS SEVEN HEADS SEVEN CROWNS

HE FLUNG THE STARS FROM THE SKY.

IN WICKEDNESS BEYOND ALL BOUNDS

HE WANTED THIS CHILD TO DIE.

III

THE WOMAN GAVE BIRTH TO A SON

A MALE CHILD TO ONE DAY RULE.

EVERY NATION UNDER THE SUN

WITH AN IRON SCEPTER TOOL.

HER CHILD WAS SNACHED UP TO GOD'S THRONE

BUT SHE TO THE DESERT FLED.

GOD WOULD THERE TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN

AS THE DAYS TO GOD'S GOAL SPED.

IV

THEN IN HEAVEN THERE WAS A WAR

THE DRAGON WAS THE GREAT FOE.

MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS GALORE

CAME FORTH WITH A MIGHTY BLOW.

THE GREAT DRAGON WAS HURLED DOWN

HE IN HEAVEN LOST HIS PLACE.

SATAN TO THE EARTH WAS CAST DOWN

AND HIS ANGELS SHARED DISGRACE.

V

THEN FROM HEAVEN CAME A LOUD VOICE

WHAT A MAGNIFICENT HOUR.

LET ALL GOD'S PEOPLE NOW REJOICE

GOD'S KINGDOM NOW COMES IN POW'R.

FOR BY CHRIST'S GREAT AUTHORITY

THEIR ACCUSER IS CAST OUT.

IT IS TIME FOR A JUBILEE

IT IS TIME TO PRAISES TO SHOUT.

VI

BY THE BLOOD OF LAMB THEY WON

THEY WOULD GIVE THEIR LIVES IN DEATH.

BUT NOW THEIR BATTLE IS ALL DONE

LET ALL PRAISE CHRIST WHO HAVE BREATH.

BUT WOE TO THE EARTH AND THE SEA

THE DEVIL COMES DOWN TO YOU.

AND HE IS FILLED WITH GREAT FURY

HE KNOWS HE IS ALMOST THROUGH.

VII

THE DRAGON SAW HE WAS ON EARTH

AND SO HE THEN DID PURSUE.

THE WOMAN WHO HAD GIVEN BIRTH

BUT WITH EAGLE WINGS SHE FLEW.

SHE FLEW OUT OF THE SERPENT'S REACH

SO IT SPEWED FORTH FROM IT'S MOUTH.

A RAGING RIVER WITHOUT BEACH

NOT DESIGNED TO SOLVE THE DROUTH.

VIII

HIS INTENT WAS TO DESTROY HER

BUT EARTH CAME TO HER DEFENSE.

IT SWALLOWED UP SATAN'S RIVER

AND SAVED HER FROM VIOLENCE.

THIS MADE THE DRAGON SO ENRAGED

HER OFFSPRING BECAME HER FOES.

THEY MUST NOW IN WAR BE ENGAGED

AS HIS EVIL THEY OPPOSE.

REV. 13

THE DRAGON STOOD ON THE SEASHORE

A BEAST CAME OUT OF THE SEA.

WITH TEN HORNS AND ON EACH HE BORE

TEN CROWNS AND MUCH BLASPHEMY.

ON HIS SEVEN HEADS WAS A NAME

BLASPHEMOUS, IT DID NOT CARE.

LEOPARD-LIKE WITH MOUTH OF LION

BUT WITH FEET JUST LIKE A BEAR.

II

THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS OWN THRONE

POWER AND AUTHORITY.

ONE OF HIS HEADS HAD A GREAT WOUND

BUT IT SEEMED TO HEALED BE.

THE WHOLE WORLD FOLLOWED THE BEAST

ASTONISHED, THEY WORSHIPPED IT.

FOR THEIR AWE WAS GREATLY INCREASED

NONE IN WAR WOULD DARE HIM HIT.

III

FORTY-TWO MONTHS IT WAS GIVEN

A MOUTH TO SPEAK BLASPHEMIES.

TO SLANDER THE GOD OF HEAVEN

AND THOSE WITH WHOM GOD WAS PLEASED.

HE MADE WAR WITH ALL GOD'S PEOPLE

AND HE ALSO CONQUERED THEM.

IN EVERY NATION THE PEOPLE

CAME UNDER HIS DIADEM.

IV

THOSE WITH NAMES THAT ARE NOT WRITTEN

IN THAT HOLY BOOK OF LIFE.

OF THE LAMB BOTH SLAIN AND SMITTEN

BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ALL STRIFE.

HE WHO HAS AN EAR LET HIM HEAR

TO BE CAPTIVES SOME MUST GO.

BE PATIENT AND DO NOT DEATH FEAR

BE FAITHFUL THOUGH BLOOD MUST FLOW.

V

THEN ANOTHER BEAST CAME FROM EARTH

HE HAD TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB.

HE MADE THE PEOPLE ON THE EARTH

JOIN IN WORSHIP OF A SHAM.

THE FIRST BEAST WHOSE WOUND HAD BEEN HEALED

PERFORMED MIRACULOUS SIGNS.

BY MEANS OF FIRE HE APPEALED

AND HE CAPTURED ALL MEN'S MINDS.

VI

BY HIS SIGNS HE DID MEN DECEIVE

AND TO HONOR THE FIRST BEAST.

THE ONE WOUNDED AND YET DID LIVE

HAD HONOR THAT MEN INCREASED.

THE IMAGE OF THIS BEAST DID BREATHE

AND WITH POWER IT DID SPEAK.

ALL TO IT MUST WORSHIP BEQUEATH

OR DEATH ON THEM HE WOULD WREAK.

VII

HE FORCED EVERYONE, GREAT AND SMALL

RICH AND POOR AND SLAVE OR FREE.

TO ALLOW HIM HIS MARK INSTALL

WHERE ALL MEN COULD CLEARLY SEE.

ON THE RIGHT HAND AND THE FOREHEAD

WAS THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST.

NONE COULD SELL OR BUY ANY BREAD

WITHOUT THIS NUMBER RELEASED.

VIII

THIS NUMBER IS A MYSTERY

BUT THERE ARE THOSE WITH INSIGHT.

THEY STUDY INTO HISTORY

AND CALCULATE WHAT IS RIGHT.

THIS IS CLEARLY A MAN'S NUMBER

BY WISDOM SOME GET A FIX.

SOME GIVE UP BOTH FOOD AND SLUMBER

TO DISCERN THIS SIX, SIX, SIX.

REV. 14

THEN I LOOKED AND THERE BEFORE ME

WAS THE LAMB ON MT. ZION.

ONE HUNDRED FORTY FOUR THOUSAND

WERE WITH TWO NAMES WRITTEN ON.

THE LAMB AND HIS FATHER'S NAME TOO

WERE WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS.

THESE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TO GOD, TRUE

THEY ARE THOSE WHOM SATAN DREADS.

II

THEN I HEARD A SOUND FROM HEAVEN

LIKE RUSHING WATERS IT ROARED.

LIKE A PEAL OF THUNDER EVEN

AS THEY SANG AND CHRIST ADORED.

LIKE THE SOUND OF HARPISTS PLAYING

BEFORE THE LORD'S THRONE THEY SANG.

NO ONE KNEW WHAT THEY WERE SAYING

AS FROM THEM GREAT PRAISES RANG.

III

NO ONE ELSE COULD LEARN THEIR GREAT SONG

BUT THOSE WHO HAD BEEN REDEEMED.

THEY IN SEX HAD NEVER DONE WRONG

ALL WOMEN THEY HAD ESTEEMED.

THEY WERE PURCHASED FROM AMONG MEN

OFFERED TO GOD AS FIRST FRUITS.

NO LIES EVER FROM THEM BEGIN

THEY ARE BLAMELESS TO THEIR ROOTS.

IV

THEN I SAW AN ANGEL FLYING

PROCLAIMING TO ALL ON EARTH.

IN CONTRAST TO OTHERS LYING

HE ANNOUNCED ETERNAL WORTH.

EVERY TRIBE AND EVERY NATION

HEARD HIM PROCLAIM IN LOUD VOICE.

FEAR GOD, GIVE HIM ADORATION

TIME HAS COME TO MAKE A CHOICE.

V

WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE CREATION

HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND SEA.

FILL YOUR HEARTS WITH JUBILATION

JUDGMENT IS ABOUT TO BE.

THEN A SECOND ANGEL FOLLOWED

FALLEN HE CRIED IS THE GREAT.

BABYLON THE GREAT IS HOLLOWED

NO MORE LIFE CAN GENERATE.

VI

SHE MADE NATIONS BE IMMORAL

DRINKING HER MADDENING WINE.

HEARTS WERE HARDENED JUST LIKE CORAL

MAKING THIS CITY DECLINE.

A THIRD ANGEL THEN DID PROCLAIM

THOSE WHO DO WORSHIP THE BEAST.

WILL GOD'S WRATH UPON THEM INFLAME

AND HIS FURY THEY INCREASE.

VII

THEY IN JUDGMENT ARE TORMENTED

WHEN GOD'S CUP OF WRATH IS FULL.

THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER REPENTED

THEY GOD'S WRATH CANNOT ANNUL.

THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT RISES

THERE IS NO REST DAY OR NIGHT.

HIM WHO THE BEAST IDOLIZES

GOD AND HIS SWIFT WRATH WILL SMITE.

VIII

THIS CALLS FOR PATIENT ENDURANCE

ON THE PART OF GOD'S OWN SAINTS.

THEY HAVE GOD'S SPECIAL INSURANCE

HE HAS OF THEM NO COMPLAINTS.

THEY OBEY ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS

ALWAYS FAITHFUL TO JESUS.

HE TOOK FOR THEM ALL THE TORMENTS

HIS GRACE IS SO FABULOUS.

IX

THEN I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN

WRITE BLESSED NOW ARE THE DEAD.

WHO DIE IN THE LORD FROM NOW ON

YES IS WHAT THE SPIRIT SAID.

YES THEY WILL FROM THEIR LABOR REST

FOR THEIR DEEDS WILL FOLLOW THEM.

THEY WILL NOW FOREVER BE BLEST

IN GOD'S CROWN THEY'LL BE A GEM.

X

BEFORE ME THERE WAS A WHITE CLOUD

ON WHICH SAT THE SON OF MAN.

CROWN OF GOLD HIS HEAD DID ENSHROUD

SHARP SICKLE WAS IN HIS HAND.

ANGEL FROM THE TEMPLE CALLED HIM

TAKE YOUR SICKLE, TIME TO REAP.

THE HARVEST IS FILLED TO THE BRIM

SO THE WHOLE EARTH HE DID SWEEP.

XI

THEN AN ANGEL WITH SHARP SICKLE

ANOTHER IN CHARGE OF FIRE.

SAID HARVEST WITH YOUR SHARP SICKLE

SO HE REAPED EARTH'S VINES ENTIRE.

HE THREW THE GRAPES IN THE WINEPRESS

OF THE LORD GOD'S HOLY WRATH.

THEY WERE TRAMPLED IN THE WINEPRESS

IN BLOOD THE EARTH TOOK A BATH.

REV.15

THEN I SAW AGAIN IN HEAVEN

A GREAT AND MARVELOUS SIGN.

SEVEN ANGELS WITH PLAGUES SEVEN

WHICH WOULD BE THE LAST IN LINE.

WITH THEM GOD'S WRATH WAS COMPLETED

THEN I SAW A SEA LIKE GLASS.

AROUND IT, STANDING, NOT SEATED

WAS ONE OF GOD'S FAVORITE CLASS.

II

AROUND THIS SEA MIXED WITH FIRE

WERE THESE VICTORIOUS ONES.

THEY HELD HARPS AND SANG IN CHOIR

THIS SONG OF THE LAMB, THAT RUNS.

GREAT AND MARVELOUS ARE YOUR DEEDS

OUR GREAT LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.

JUST AND TRUE YOUR WAY ALWAYS LEADS

KING OF THE AGES YOU BE.

III

WHO WILL NOT FEAR YOU O MY LORD

AND BRING GLORY TO YOUR NAME.

YOU ALONE ARE HOLY, ADORED

ALL NATIONS BEFORE YOU CAME.

THEY COME TO WORSHIP BEFORE YOU

FOR YOUR RIGHTEOUS ACTS REVEALED.

THEY GIVE YOU THE WORSHIP YOUR DUE

THEIR LIPS OF PRAISE CAN'T BE SEALED.

IV

THEN I SAW THE TEMPLE OPEN

ANGELS CAME WITH SEVEN PLAGUES.

THEY WERE DRESSED IN SHINING LINEN

GOLD SASHES THEIR CHEST ENGAGE.

ONE OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES

GAVE THEM BOWLS FILLED WITH GOD'S WRATH.

GOD'S GLORY TOOK ON SUCH FEATURES

NO ONE COULD ENTER HIS PATH.

V

GOD LIVES FOREVER AND EVER

HIS POW'R FILLED THE ROOM WITH SMOKE.

IT WAS GOD'S WAY TO ENDEAVOR

TO FROM SOME HIS WRATH TO CLOAK.

UNTIL SEVEN PLAGUES ARE OVER

NO ONE CAN THE TEMPLE SEE.

THE GREAT JUDGMENT MUST NOW OCCUR

THE WORST THAT WILL EVER BE.

REV. 16

THEN A LOUD VOICE FROM THE TEMPLE

TOLD SEVEN ANGELS TO GO.

DO THIS TASK WHICH IS QUITE SIMPLE

LET GOD'S WRATH FROM BOWLS FLOW.

THE FIRST ANGEL OF THE SEVEN

POURED OUT HIS BOWL ON THE LAND.

UGLY AND PAINFUL SORES WERE THEN

BREAKING OUT TO BEAT THE BAND,

II

THE SECOND ANGEL POURED HIS BOWL

AND IT TURNED THE SEA TO BLOOD.

KILLING ALL LIFE WAS IT'S GOAL

JUST AS IT WAS IN THE FLOOD.

THE THIRD ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL

ON RIVERS AND WATER SPRINGS.

BLOOD THEY ALL BECAME IN WHOLE

THEN THE ANGEL SAID THESE THINGS.

III

IN THESE JUDGMENTS YOU ARE JUST

HOLY ONE WHO ARE AND WERE.

YOU HAVE DONE JUST WHAT YOU MUST

THESE ARE THINGS THAT MUST OCCUR.

THEY HAVE SHED THE BLOOD OF YOUR SAINTS

AND YOUR PROPHETS THEY HAVE KILLED.

THESE REBELS HAVE NO COMPLAINTS

WHEN THEIR CUP WITH BLOOD IS FILLED.

IV

THEN I SAW THREE EVIL SPIRITS

THEY LOOKED JUST LIKE FROGS TO ME .

THEY WERE CLEARLY DEMON SPIRITS

PLOTTING THEIR EVIL WITH GLEE.

FROM THE MOUTHS OF BEAST AND PROPHET

FROM THE DRAGONS MOUTH ALSO.

THEY COME FORTH TO MAKE A GREAT THREAT

SHOWING SIGNS TO KINGS BELOW.

V

THEY GATHER KINGS FOR A BATTLE

ON THE GREAT DAY OF OUR GOD..

BUT HE WILL THEIR WHOLE PLAN RATTLE

WHEN HE COMES TO RULE WITH ROD.

BEHOLD I COME LIKE A THIEF

BLESSED THOSE WHO STAY AWAKE.

CLOTHED, NOT NAKED, SUCH RELIEF

WE NEED NOT IN FEAR TO SHAKE.

VI

THEN THEY GATHERED KINGS IN A PLACE

IN HEBREW, ARMAGEDDON.

GOOD AND EVIL MEET FACE TO FACE

THE FINAL PHENOMENON.

THE SEVENTH ANGEL POURED HIS BOWL

FROM THE TEMPLE CAME A VOICE.

IT IS DONE, FINISHED IN WHOLE

GOD HAS MADE HIS FINAL CHOICE.

VII

THEN THERE CAME THE LIGHTNING FLASHES

RUMBLINGS AND THUNDER PEALS.

AND A SEVERE EARTHQUAKE CRASHES

IT GOD'S GREAT FURY REVEALS.

NEVER BEFORE IN HISTORY

SINCE LIFE ON THIS EARTH BEGAN.

WAS THERE SUCH AN EARTHQUAKE STORY

THAT DID SUCH DAMAGE TO MAN.

VIII

THE GREAT CITY SPLIT IN THREE PARTS

CITIES OF THE WORLD COLLAPSED.

TO BABYLON GOD NOW IMPARTS

WRATH AS HIS FURY UNWRAPS.

EVERY ISLAND THEN FLED AWAY

THE MOUNTAINS COULD NOT BE FOUND.

FROM THE SKY HUGE HAIL STONES GAVE WAY

WEIGHT NEARING A HUNDRED POUNDS.

IX

FALLING UPON MEN WHO CURSED GOD

THEY WERE REBELS TO THE END..

THEY WOULD CLING TO THEIR EARTHLY SOD

AND IN PRIDE REFUSE TO BEND.

THE PLAGUE WAS SO TERRIBLE, YET

IN CHANGING HEARTS IT DID FAIL.

THEY DESERVED JUST WHAT THEY DID GET

THIS AWFUL PLAGUE OF THE HAIL.

REV. 17

THEN ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS

SAID TO ME, COME I WILL SHOW.

PUNISHMENTS THAT I ARRANGE WILL

DEAL THAT PROSTITUTE A BLOW.

WITH HER THE KINGS OF THE WHOLE EARTH

DID ADULTERIES COMMIT.

HER WINE FILLED THEM WITH SUCH GREAT MIRTH

THEY WERE TO HER EVIL KNIT.

II

THEN HE CARRIED ME IN SPIRIT

TO A DESERT WHERE I SAW.

A WOMAN SITTING ON SCARLET

IT WAS A BEAST WITHOUT LAW.

IT HAD SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS

COVERED WITH BLASPHEMOUS NAMES.

PURPLE AND SCARLET HER ADORNS

GOLD AND PRECIOUS JEWELS HER GAME.

III

IN HER HAND A GOLDEN CUP HELD

FILLED WITH TRULY AWFUL THINGS.

ON HER FOREHEAD THEN I BEHELD

WHAT MADE HER SO LOVED BY KINGS.

SHE WAS BABYLON THE GREAT WHORE

MOTHER OF ALL PROSTITUTES.

MOTHER OF ALL GOD DOES ABHOR

SHE ALL EVIL INSTITUTES.

IV

SHE WAS DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF SAINTS

THOSE WHO LOVED THE LORD JESUS.

WHEN JOHN SEES HER HE ALMOST FAINTS

THE ANGEL EXPLAINS TO US.

THE BEAST WHICH HE SAW WHO ONCE WAS

NOW IS NOT BUT IS TO COME.

FROM THE ABYSS, AND WHEN HE DOES

HE WILL BE DESTROYED LIKE SCUM.

V

PEOPLE WILL BE SO ASTONISHED

THOSE NOT WRITTEN IN GOD'S BOOK.

THEY HAVE BEEN BY GOD ADMONISHED

BUT STILL TO THIS BEAST THEY LOOK.

THIS CALLS FOR A MIND WITH WISDOM

SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN HILLS.

THEY REPRESENT SEVEN KINGDOMS

FIVE ARE GONE, ONE'S TO COME STILL.

VI

WHEN HE COMES HE MUST FOR AWHILE

REMAIN LIKE THE ONE WHO IS.

THE BEAST WHO IS OF THE MOST VILE

IS IN EVIL QUITE A WHIZ.

EIGHTH KING HE IS BUT OF SEVEN

WHO ONCE WAS AND NOW IS NOT.

HE WILL BE DESTROYED BY HEAVEN

FOR HIS REBELLIOUS PLOT.

VII

THE TEN HORNS YOU SAW ARE TEN KINGS

WHO HAVE KINGDOMS NOT RECEIVED.

BUT ALONG WITH THE BEAST, THESE KINGS

WILL BE TOTALLY DECEIVED.

THEY WILL MAKE WAR AGAINST THE LAMB

WHO EVER HEARD OF SUCH THINGS.

TRYING TO DEFEAT THE I AM

LORD OF LORD AND KING OF KINGS.

VIII

THE ANGEL TOLD ME THE WATERS

ON WHICH THE PROSTITUTE SITS.

ARE THE WORLD OF MEN AND DAUGHTERS

NO LANGUAGE ON EARTH OMITS.

BEAST AND TEN HORNS ARE FILLED WITH HATE

FOR THIS WHORE THEY BRING TO SHAME.

THEY LEFT HER NAKED AND FLESH ATE

BURNED HER WITH FIRE, CURSED HER NAME.

IX

FOR GOD PUT IT INTO THEIR HEARTS

HIS PURPOSE TO ACCOMPLISH.

EACH WOULD AGREE TO PLAY THEIR PARTS

UNTIL THEY GOD'S WORD FINISH.

THE WOMEN IS THE GREAT CITY

RULER OF THE KINGS ON EARTH.

BUT HER JUDGMENT WE CAN'T PITY

SHE REJECTED ALL OF WORTH.

REV. 18

THEN ANOTHER ANGEL CAME DOWN

HE HAD GREAT AUTHORITY.

EARTH WAS LIT UP BY HIS RENOWN

SPLENDOR EVERYWHERE MEN SEE.

WITH A MIGHTY VOICE HE SHOUTED

FALLEN!, FALLEN BABYLON.

SHE BECAME A CITY HAUNTED

BY EVERY EVIL DEMON.

II

EVERY EVIL AND UNCLEAN BIRD

MADE ITS DETESTABLE HAUNT.

NATIONS DRUNKER THAN EVER HEARD

DID HER EVIL LIFE-STYLE FLAUNT.

KINGS WITH HER COMMIT ADULTERY

MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH GROW RICH.

THEY LOVE EXCESSIVE LUXURY

THAT'S WHY GOD CALLS US TO SWITCH.

III

COME OUT OF HER YOU MY PEOPLE

IS GOD'S CALL UNTO HIS OWN.

IF YOU STAY AND SIN YOU'RE FEEBLE

HER PLAGUE THEN TOO YOU MUST OWN.

HER SINS ARE PILED UP TO HEAVEN

GOD HAS REMEMBERED HER CRIMES.

GIVE BACK TO HER AS SHE'S GIVEN

DOUBLE WHAT SHE GAVE AT TIMES.

IV

GIVE HER AS MUCH TORTURE AND GRIEF

AS THE LUXURY SHE HAD.

IN HER HEART SHE BOASTED BELIEF

AS QUEEN SHE'LL NOT HAVE IT BAD.

ONE DAY PLAGUES WILL OVERTAKE HER

DEATH, MOURNING AND FAMINE TOO.

SHE WILL BE CONSUMED BY FIRE

GOD'S JUDGMENT ON HER IS DUE.

V

KINGS WHO SHARED WITH HER LUXURY

SEE HER BURN AND START TO WEEP.

TORMENTED BY HER INJURY

STAND AND CRY OVER THIS HEAP.

THEY CRY WOE! WOE IS THIS CITY

GREAT CITY OF BABYLON.

NOW THIS GREAT POWER WE PITY

IN ONE HOUR YOUR DOOM HAS COME.

VI

MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH WEEP AND MOURN

THEIR GOODS DON'T SELL ANYMORE.

EVERY LUXURY SHIPS HAVE BORNE

HAVE NO BUYERS AS BEFORE.

CARGOES OF PRECIOUS METALS, GEMS

THE FINEST OF CLOTH AND SILK.

WOOD, IVORY THINGS MADE OF THEM

BRONZE, IRON, MARBLE AND THEIR ILK.

VII

CARGOES OF CINNAMON AND SPICE

INCENSE, MYRRH AND FRANKINCENSE.

WINE, OLIVE OIL AND GRAINS SO NICE

ANIMALS AND MAN'S ESSENCE.

THAT WHICH YOU LONGED FOR IS NOW GONE

VANISHED ARE ALL YOUR RICHES.

YOU AGAIN WILL NEVER COME ON

GOD HAS MADE CRUCIAL SWITCHES.

VIII

IT IS YOUR TIME NOW FOR MOURNING

MERCHANTS WEEP AS THEY CRY OUT.

NO LONGER ARE YOU ADORNING

THOSE GREAT RICHES YOUR ABOUT.

ALL HAS BEEN LOST IN ONE HOUR

ALL THAT GREAT ENORMOUS WEALTH.

HOW COULD ONE OF SUCH GREAT POWER

END UP IN SUCH AWFUL HEALTH.

IX

CAPTAINS, SAILORS ALL ON THE SEA

WHO THERE MAKE THEIR LIVELIHOOD.

SAW THE SMOKE OF THIS GREAT CITY

WEEPING AS FAR OFF THEY STOOD.

THEY CRIED WOE! WOE, O GREAT CITY

WHERE MEN WITH SHIPS BECAME RICH.

IN ONE HOUR SUCH A PITY

SHE'S NOW JUST MUD IN A DITCH.

X

REJOICE OVER HER O HEAVEN!

ALL GOD'S PEOPLE NOW REJOICE.

GOD HAS FOR YOU NOW GOT EVEN

PUNISHING HER FOR HER CHOICE.

THEN A MIGHTY ANGEL PICKED UP

A BOULDER OF A GREAT SIZE.

THIS HE SAID IS THE JUDGMENT CUP

BY WHICH GOD WILL HER CHASTISE.

XI

HE THREW THAT BOULDER IN THE SEA

WITH SUCH VIOLENCE HE SAID

BABYLON WILL NO LONGER BE

SHE'S THROWN DOWN AND NOW IS DEAD.

MUSIC THERE WILL NEVER BE HEARD

NO WORKMANS TRADE WILL BE FOUND.

ALL LIGHT BLOTTED OUT NOT JUST BLURRED

NEVER AGAIN MILLSTONE SOUND.

XII

NO VOICE OF THE BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM

WILL BE HEARD IN YOU AGAIN.

YOU WHO LED ECONOMIC BOOM

CASTING MAGIC SPELLS ON MEN.

YOU LED SO MANY MEN ASTRAY

SHEDDING BLOOD OF GOD'S DEAR SAINTS.

NOW IT'S COME TO THAT GREAT PAY DAY

WHEN GOD'S WRATH HAS NO RESTRAINTS.

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AFTER THIS I HEARD WHAT SOUNDED

LIKE THE ROAR OF MULTITUDES.

HEAVEN WITH PRAISES ABOUNDED

FILLED WITH GRATEFUL ATTITUDES.

THEY WERE SHOUTING HALLELUJAH

SALVATION, GLORY AND POW'R.

BELONG TO OUR GOD WHO HAS THE

JUDGMENTS THAT TRUE AND JUST ARE.

II

HE CONDEMNED THE GREAT PROSTITUTE

WHO HAD CORRUPTED THE EARTH.

NOTHING COULD BE SAID TO REFUTE

SHE DESTROYED LIVES OF GREAT WORTH.

SHE SHED THE BLOOD OF GOD'S SERVANTS

NOW HER OWN BLOOD WOULD BE SHED.

IT'S TO LATE FOR HER TO RECANT

GOD'S REVENGE FALLS ON HER HEAD.

III

SHOUTS AGAIN OF HALLELUJAH

ROSE UP ALONG WITH HER SMOKE.

ALSO AMEN, HALLELUJAH

WERE WORDS THAT THE ELDERS SPOKE.

A VOICE FROM GOD'S THRONE WAS SAYING

PRAISE OUR GOD ALL WHO FEAR HIM.

SMALL AND GREAT SHOULD BE CONVEYING

JOYFUL GRATITUDE TO HIM.

IV

THEN I HEARD WHAT TO ME SOUNDED

LIKE A MIGHTY MULTITUDE.

NOISES EVERYWHERE ABOUNDED

EXPRESSING THEIR GRATITUDE.

HALLELUJAH, FOR OUR GOD REIGNS

LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD.

GIVE HIM GLORY FOR HE NOW DEIGNS

THE LAMBS WEDDING TO BE HAD.

V

HIS BRIDE HAS MADE HERSELF READY

FINE LINEN SO BRIGHT AND CLEAN.

RIGHTEOUS ACTS THAT KEPT HER STEADY

IS WHAT HER CLEAN GARMENTS MEAN.

THEN THE ANGEL SAID TO ME, WRITE

BLESSED ARE THOSE INVITED.

TO THIS WEDDING OF GREAT DELIGHT.

GOD AND MAN ARE UNITED.

VI

JOHN FELL TO WORSHIP AT HIS FEET

BUT THE ANGEL SAID DO NOT.

WITH GOD'S WORSHIP I DON'T COMPETE

HE ONLY DESERVES THAT SLOT.

I LIKE YOU AM JUST A SERVANT

JESUS IS THE ONE I SERVE.

ALL YOUR WORSHIP UNTO HIM GRANT

AND FROM SUCH ACTS NEVER SWERVE.

VII

I SAW HEAVEN STANDING OPEN

AND BEFORE ME A WHITE HORSE.

A FAITHFUL AND TRUE CITIZEN

ROAD, AND IT WAS CHRIST OF COURSE.

WITH JUSTICE HE JUDGES, MAKES WAR

HIS EYES ARE LIKE BLAZING FIRE.

HEAD WITH MANY CROWNS LIKE A CZAR

A NAME, PART OF HIS ATTIRE.

VIII

NO ONE BUT HIMSELF COULD KNOW IT

THIS NAME WAS UNIQUE, HIS OWN

HIS ROBE DIPPED IN BLOOD DOES SHOW IT

BY THE WORD OF GOD HE'S KNOWN.

THE ARMIES OF HEAVEN JOINED HIM

RIDING ON WHITE HORSES TOO.

DRESSED IN CLEAN LINEN JUST LIKE HIM

AND LIKE HIM LOYAL AND TRUE.

IX

OUT OF HIS MOUTH CAME A SHARP SWORD

THE NATIONS HE WOULD STRIKE DOWN.

WITH IRON SCEPTER HE WAS LORD

HIS RULE WOULD EVIL CONFOUND.

HE TREADS THE WINEPRESS OF FURY

WRATH, ALL EVIL HE AWARDS.

ON HIS THIGH HIS NAME ALL CAN SEE

KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

X

THEN I SAW AN ANGEL STANDING

IN THE SUN WHO CRIED ALOUD.

TO ALL THE BIRDS WHO WERE FLYING

AT GOD'S SUPPER YOU'RE ALLOWED.

YOU CAN COME, EAT THE FLESH OF KINGS

GENERALS AND MIGHTY MEN.

HORSES, RIDERS AND ALL SUCH THINGS

ANY FLESH FOR WHICH YOU YEN.

XI

THEN I SAW THE BEAST AND HIS KINGS

GATHERED AGAINST CHRIST TO WAR.

BUT IT DIDN'T LAST LONG, HIS FLING

COLLAPSED AND FELL THROUGH THE FLOOR.

HE WAS CAPTURED AND HIS PROPHET

WHO WITH SIGNS THE WORLD DECEIVED.

THEY WERE TO ALL MANKIND A THREAT

NOW THEIR JUDGMENT THEY RECEIVED.

XII

FIREY LAKE OF BURNING SULPHUR

THIS THERE FINAL DESTINY.

THEY WERE AGENTS OF LUCIFER

NOW THEY'LL WITH HIM EVER BE.

THE WHITE RIDER KILLED THEIR ALLIES

WITH A SWORD IN HIS MOUTH HELD.

ALL THE BIRDS SAW THIS AS THEIR PRIZE

GORGING ON ALL WHO WERE FELLED