1And a measuring reed like a rod was given to me, saying: “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it.
2But the court that is outside the temple, cast out and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
3And I will grant to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the Lord of the earth.
5And if anyone wants to harm them, fire pours out of their mouth and devours their enemies; and if anyone should want to harm them, in this way he must be killed.
6These have the authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophecy, and they have authority over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they may want.
7And when they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them and will conquer them and will kill them.
8And their corpse will lie on the street of the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
9And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their corpse for three and a half days, and they will not permit their corpses to be placed in a tomb.
10And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
11And after the three and a half days a spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who beheld them.
12And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them.
13And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand persons were killed in the earthquake, and the rest became terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14The second Woe has passed; behold, the third Woe is coming quickly.
The Seventh Trumpet
15And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying: “The kingdom of the world has become that of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.”
16And the twenty-four elders who sit before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,
17saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God the Almighty, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.
18And the nations were enraged, and your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to your servants the prophets and to the holy ones and to those who fear your name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
19And the temple of God that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple, and there were flashes of lightning and voices and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.
Where this passage connects across Scripture — each link typed and reasoned, part of the AIT Bible Nexus Chart.
The Two Witnesses
parallelRevelation 17:1— The beast coming up out of the abyss appears in both passages.
allusion1 Kings 17:1— The authority to shut the sky so no rain falls recalls Elijah's declaration that there would be no rain except by his word.
allusionDaniel 7:25— The forty-two months (three and a half times) of Gentile trampling recalls Daniel's 'time, times, and half a time' of the holy people being given into the oppressor's hand.
allusionDaniel 7:21— The beast making war on the witnesses and conquering them echoes Daniel's horn making war against the holy ones and prevailing.
allusionExodus 7:19— The authority to turn waters into blood and strike the earth with plagues recalls Moses' plagues on Egypt.
allusionEzekiel 40:3— The measuring reed given to the prophet to measure the temple echoes Ezekiel's vision of a man with a measuring reed measuring the temple.
allusionEzekiel 37:10— The spirit of life from God entering the corpses so they stood on their feet echoes Ezekiel's dry bones receiving breath and standing on their feet.
allusionIsaiah 1:9— The great city called 'Sodom' as a name for a sinful city echoes Isaiah's address to Jerusalem's rulers as those of Sodom.
allusionLuke 21:24— The nations trampling the holy city echoes Jesus' saying that Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles.
allusionZechariah 4:2— The two olive trees and two lampstands directly draw on Zechariah's vision of the lampstand and two olive trees.
echoed inZechariah 4:1— Revelation's two olive trees and lampstands standing before the Lord of the earth directly reuse Zechariah's two olive trees and 'Lord of all the earth' imagery.
The Seventh Trumpet
parallelRevelation 15:5— The opening of the heavenly temple recurs as the setting for the bowl judgments in Revelation.
allusionDaniel 7:14— The kingdom becoming the Lord's and his everlasting reign echoes Daniel's everlasting dominion given to the Son of Man.
echoed inDaniel 7:1— The everlasting kingdom given to the son of man that will not pass away parallels the kingdom becoming the Lord's forever.
allusionExodus 3:14— The title 'the one who is and who was' develops the divine name given at the burning bush.
allusionPsalms 2:2— The reference to 'our Lord and of his Christ' reflects Psalm 2's 'the LORD and against his Anointed.'
allusionPsalms 2:1— 'The nations were enraged' echoes Psalm 2's opening 'Why do the nations rage.'
thematicExodus 15:1— Both proclaim the eternal reign of the Lord, 'Yahweh will reign forever and ever.'
thematicObadiah 1:17— The climactic declaration that the kingdom belongs to Yahweh anticipates the kingdom of the world becoming the Lord's.
thematicPsalms 146:5— Both proclaim the eternal reign of the Lord/God from generation to generation.
thematicZechariah 14:1— Both proclaim Yahweh's universal kingship over all the earth in the eschaton.