Daniel 9Daniel 10Revelation 13.11->Revelation 14.1-20Daniel 9
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In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans
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In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.
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And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.
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And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders
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We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:
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We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.
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O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.
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O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
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With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him
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And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.
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And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.
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And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.
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As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.
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So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.
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And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day we are sinners, we have done evil.
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O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.
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And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.
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O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.
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O Lord, give ear O Lord, have forgiveness O Lord, take note and do let there be no more waiting for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.
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And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God
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Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering.
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And teaching me and talking to me he said, O Daniel, I have come now to give you wisdom.
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At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.
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Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.
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Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.
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And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no...and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war the making waste which has been fixed.
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And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Daniel 10
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In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.
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In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.
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I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.
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And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was by the side of the great river
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And lifting up my eyes I saw the form of a man clothed in a linen robe, and round him there was a band of gold, of the best gold:
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And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.
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And I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see it but a great shaking came on them and they went in flight to take cover.
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So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me and the colour went from my face.
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But the sound of his words came to my ears, and on hearing his voice I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth.
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Then a hand gave me a touch, awaking me, and putting me on my knees and my hands.
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And he said to me, O Daniel, you man dearly loved, take in the sense of the words I say to you and get up on to your feet: for to you I am now sent and when he had said this to me I got on to my feet, shaking with fear.
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Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.
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But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.
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Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days for there is still a vision for the days.
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And after he had said these words to me, I kept my face turned to the earth and was unable to say anything.
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Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength.
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For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body.
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Then again one having the form of a man put his hand on me and gave me strength.
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And he said to me, O man greatly loved, have no fear: peace be with you, be strong and let your heart be lifted up. And at his words I became strong, and said, Let my lord say on, for you have given me strength.
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Then he said, It is clear to you why I have come to you. And now I will give you an account of what is recorded in the true writings:
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But I am going back to make war with the angel of Persia, and when I am gone, the angel of Greece will come. And there is no one on my side against these, but Michael, your angel.
Revelation 13
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And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb, and his voice was like that of a dragon.
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And he makes use of all the authority of the first beast before his eyes. And he makes the earth and those who are in it give worship to the first beast, whose death-wound was made well.
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And he does great signs, even making fire come down from heaven on the earth before the eyes of men.
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And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.
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And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.
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And he gives to all, small and great, the poor and those who have wealth, the free and those who are not free, a mark on their right hand or on their brows
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So that no man might be able to do trade but he who has the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.
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Here is wisdom. He who has knowledge let him get the number of the beast because it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty-six.
Revelation 14
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And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.
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And a voice from heaven came to my ears, like the sound of great waters, and the sound of loud thunder: and the voice which came to me was like the sound of players, playing on instruments of music.
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And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.
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These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
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And in their mouth there was no false word, for they are untouched by evil.
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And I saw another angel in flight between heaven and earth, having eternal good news to give to those who are on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people,
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Saying with a loud voice, Have fear of God and give him glory because the hour of his judging is come and give worship to him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.
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And a second angel came after, saying, Destruction has come to Babylon the great, which gave to all the nations the wine of the wrath of her evil ways.
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And a third angel came after them, saying with a loud voice, If any man gives worship to the beast and his image, and has his mark on his brow or on his hand,
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To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb:
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And the smoke of their pain goes up for ever and ever and they have no rest day and night, who give worship to the beast and his image, and have on them the mark of his name.
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Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.
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And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles for their works go with them.
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And I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud I saw one seated, like a son of man, having on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp curved blade.
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And another angel came out from the house of God, crying with a loud voice to him who was seated on the cloud, Put in your blade, and let the grain be cut: because the hour for cutting it is come for the grain of the earth is over-ready.
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And he who was seated on the cloud sent in his blade on the earth and the grain of the earth was cut.
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And another angel came out from the house of God which is in heaven, having a sharp curved blade.
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And another angel came out from the altar, who has power over fire and he gave a loud cry to him who had the sharp curved blade, saying, Put in your sharp blade, and let the grapes of the vine of the earth be cut for her grapes are fully ready.
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And the angel sent his blade into the earth, and the vine of the earth was cut, and he put it into the great wine-crusher of the wrath of God.
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And the grapes were crushed under foot outside the town, and blood came out from them, even to the head-bands of the horses, two hundred miles.
