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REVELATION. the sanctuary which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp scythe. 18 Then another angel from the altar, 5 1 who had authority over the hre, also spoke with a loud voice to him who Swing out your sharp scythe, aud gather the grapes from the vine of the earth; because her grapes are over-ripe! So the angel swunghis scythe over

the earth, and stripped the vine of the earth, and threw into the great winepress of the anger of God. And the press was trodden outside the city; and blood issued h·om the pres, up to the horses' bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs. I6 Then I ther si in thl saw anoe heaven, great and wondengui: seven angels having the lastseven lagues ; ; in which the anger of Gowill be completed. Then Isawas if aglassyseawere

mingled with tire ; and the victors over the beast and over his image, and over the number of his name, standing by the glassy sea, having God's harps. And they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and e song of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are Your works! Lord God Almighty! Your ways are just and true, King of the Eternities! Who will not reverence You, O And praise Your name? For You alone are holy; For all nations shall come and worship in Your sight; Now Your righteous judgments are displayed l ’ After this I saw, and the sanctuary

of the tent of the testimony in the heaven was opened; and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels possessing the seven plagues, each clothed in pure shining linen, and bound about the breast with golden girdles. Then one of the four Beings handed to the seven angels seven goldenvials full ofthe fury of God--of Him Who lives in the eternities of the eternities. And the sanctuary was Hlled with smoke from the Majesty of God, and from His might; and no one was able to enter into the sanc- tuary until the completion of the seven plagues of the seven angels. Then I heard a loudvoice from the sanctuary, saying tothe seven angels,

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‘ G0 and pour out upon the earth the seven vials of the fury of God. Then the first went, and emptied

his vial upon the earth: and a loath- some and foul ulcer appeared upon the men who were branded with the mark of the beast, and who wor- shipped his image. Then the second emptied his vial

into the sea; and it became as blood of a corpse; and every spirit of life in the sea died. Then the third emptied his vial into

the rivers and the water—springs: and they became blood. I also heard the angel of the waters, saying, ' You are righteous, The Existent, and Who was, Tun Hour, In these Your decisions! Because they poured out the blood of saints and prophets; Therefore You have given them blood to drink.

They deserve it I ' I also heard the attendant ofthe altar FMS. “ Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty! True and righteous are Your judgments. Then the fourth emptied his vial

upon the sun : and it was given to it to scotch mankind by fire. And men were scorched by a great heat ; and they re· viled the name of that God Who con- trols these plagues: but they changed not their minds to give Him glory. Then the fifth emptied his vial

upon the throne of the beast: and his kingdom became dark. And they gnawed their tongues in anguish; and they reviled the God of heaven on account of their anguish and their wounds: but- they did not turn from their practices. Then the sixth emptied his vial

upon the mighty river Euphrates: and its water was dried up, so that a road might be prepared for the kings from the- rising sun. ` lnext saw proceeding from the

mouth of the dragon, and from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet, three foul Spirits resembling frogs———-for they are spirits of demons-—-producing signs which they cause to be sent out to the kings of the whole habitable world, to muster them for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty al See l X approach like a. thief.

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