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The Book Of
Revelation

[Introduction]

This is the Revelation of Yeshua the Messiah,
which God gave him to show to his servants the
things which must happen soon, which he sent
and made known by his angel to his servant,
Yochanan, who testified to God's word, and
of the testimony of Yeshua the Messiah,
about everything that he saw.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear
the words of the prophecy, and keep the things
that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

[The Return of the Messiah]

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and
every eye will see him, including those who
pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will
mourn over him. Even so, Amein.

"I am the Alef and the Tav," says the
Lord God "who is and who was and
who is to come, Shaddai.(The Almighty)"

[The Messiah]

And among the menorot was one like a son of man,
clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and
with a golden sash around his chest.
His head and his hair were white as white wool,
like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire. His
feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been
refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of
many waters. He had seven stars in his right hand.
Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword.
His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man.
He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid.
I am the first and the last, and the Living one. I was
dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.
Amein. I have the keys of Death and of She'ol(Hell).

Read:
chapter 2
and
chapter 3

[The throne]

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven,
and the first voice that I heard, like a shofar speaking with me,
was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things
which must happen after this."

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set
in heaven, and one sitting on the throne that looked like a
jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the
throne, like an yahalom to look at.
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones
were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments,
with crowns of gold on their heads. Out of the throne proceed
lightnings, sounds, and thunders.
There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne,
which are the seven Spirits of God. Before the throne was
something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst
of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures
full of eyes before and behind.
The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like
a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the
fourth was like a flying eagle.
The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings,
are full of eyes around about and within. They have no rest day
and night, saying,

"Holy, holy, holy, holy,
holy, holy, holy, holy,
holy is the Lord God, Shaddai,
who was and who is and who is to come!"

[The book]

I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne,
a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with
seven seals. I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a
loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to
break its seals?" No one in heaven above, or on the
earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book,
or to look in it. And I wept much, because no one was
found worthy to open the book, or to look in it. One
of the elders said to me, "Don't weep. Behold, the Lion
who is of the tribe of Yehudah, the Root of David,
has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven
seals." I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four
living creatures, and in the midst of the elders,
a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having
seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. Then he
came, and he took it out of the right hand of him
who sat on the throne. Now when he had taken the
book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four
elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a
harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the
prayers of the holy ones.
They sang a new song, saying:

[The song]

"You are worthy to take the book,
      And to open its seals:
 For you were killed,
      And bought us for God with your blood,
      Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
And made them kings and kohanim(priests) to our God,
      And they reign on earth."

[All creatures]

I heard every created thing which is in heaven,
on the earth, under the earth, on the sea,
and everything in them, saying:
"To him who sits on the throne, and to the
Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory,
and the dominion, forever and ever! Amein!"

[The first seal]

I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals,
and I heard one of the four living creatures saying,
as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!"
And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it
had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he
came forth conquering, and to conquer.

[The second seal]

When he opened the second seal, I heard the second
living creature saying, "Come!" Another came forth,
a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power
to take peace from the earth, and that they should
kill one another.
There was given to him a great sword.

[The third seal]

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying,
"Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had
a balance in his hand. I heard a voice in the midst of the four living
creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix
of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

[The fourth seal]

When he opened the fourth seal,
I heard the fourth living creature
saying, "Come and see!" And
behold, a pale horse, and he
who sat on it, his name
was Death. She'ol followed
with him.
Authority over one fourth of
the earth, to kill with the sword,
with famine, with death, and by
the wild animals of the earth was
given to him.

[The fifth seal]

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath
the altar the souls of those who had been killed
for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the
Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice,
saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until
you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell
on the earth?" A long white robe was given to each
of them. They were told that they should rest yet
for a while, until their fellow servants and their
brothers, who would also be killed even as they
were, should complete their course.

[The sixth seal]

I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake.
The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon
became as blood. The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree
dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. The sky was
removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were
moved out of their places. The kings of the earth, the princes,
the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave
and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of
the mountains. They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us,
and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from
the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come;
and who is able to stand?"

[144 000]

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth,
holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth,
or on the sea, or on any tree. I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise,
having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels
to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Don't harm the
earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants
of our God on their foreheads!" I heard the number of those who were sealed,
one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children
of Yisra'el.