and the twenty and four elders, who before God are sitting upon their thrones, did fall upon their faces, and did bow before God, saying, `We give thanks to Thee, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art, and who wast, and who art coming, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and didst reign;

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become [those] of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

and in that hour came a great earthquake, and the tenth of the city did fall, and killed in the earthquake were names of men -- seven thousands, and the rest became affrighted, and they gave glory to the God of the heaven.

The second woe did go forth, lo, the third woe doth come quickly.

and they [the Two Witnesses] heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to them, `Come up hither;' and they went up to the heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them;

And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them [the Two Witnesses], and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,

and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these, the two prophets, [the two witnesses] did torment those dwelling upon the land.

and they shall behold, they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations,  their [the two witnesses] dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,

and their [the two witnesses]dead bodies [are] upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)

And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,

These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.

and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed.

these [the Two Witnesses] are the two olive [trees], and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand;

and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;

and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;

And there was given to me [John] a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it;

and he saith to me, `It behoveth thee again to prophesy about peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings -- many.'

And I took the little scroll out of the hand of the messenger, and did eat it up, and it was in my mouth as honey, sweet, and when I did eat it,  my belly was made bitter;

 and I went away unto the messenger, saying to him, `Give me the little scroll;' and he saith to me, `Take, and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey.'

And the voice that I heard out of the heaven is again speaking with me [John], and saying, `Go, take the little scroll that is open in the hand of the messenger who hath been standing upon the sea, and upon the land:'

but in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when he may be about to sound, and the secret of God may be finished, as He did declare to His own servants, to the prophets.

and did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages, who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that time shall not be yet,

And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven

and when the seven thunders spake their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Seal the things that the seven thunders spake,' and, `Thou mayest not write these things.

and he cried with a great voice, as a lion doth roar, and when he cried, speak out did the seven thunders their voices;

and he had in his hand a little scroll opened, and he did place his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the land,

And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of the heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,

 yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure;

by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,

Happy New Year 2014