The document summarizes the first 19 chapters of Revelation in poetic form. It retells the visions that John saw on the island of Patmos in poetic verses, including visions of Jesus, the seven lampstands and stars, and messages to the seven churches. The summary focuses on conveying the high-level content while keeping it concise.

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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!

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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

25. 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 .

26. 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

27. 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.

28. 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

29. 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.

30. 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

31. 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.

32. 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

33. 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