Threefold
Hallelujah
Over
Babylon’s
Fall
1
After this
I heard
what
sounded
like the
roar of a
great
multitude
in heaven
shouting:
“Hallelujah!
Salvation
and glory
and power
belong to
our God,
2 for
true and
just are
his
judgments.
He has
condemned
the great
prostitute
who
corrupted
the earth
by her
adulteries.
He has
avenged on
her the
blood of
his
servants.”
3 And
again they
shouted:
“Hallelujah!
The smoke
from her
goes up
for ever
and ever.”
4 The
twenty-four
elders and
the four
living
creatures
fell down
and
worshiped
God, who
was seated
on the
throne.
And they
cried:
“Amen,
Hallelujah!”
5 Then a
voice came
from the
throne,
saying:
“Praise
our God,
all
you his
servants,
you who
fear him,
both
great and
small!”
6 Then I
heard what
sounded
like a
great
multitude,
like the
roar of
rushing
waters and
like loud
peals of
thunder,
shouting:
“Hallelujah!
For
our Lord
God
Almighty
reigns.
7 Let
us rejoice
and be
glad
and
give him
glory!
For the
wedding of
the Lamb
has come,
and
his bride
has made
herself
ready.
8 Fine
linen,
bright and
clean,
was
given her
to wear.”
(Fine
linen
stands for
the
righteous
acts of
God’s holy
people.)
9 Then the
angel said
to me,
“Write
this:
Blessed
are those
who are
invited to
the
wedding
supper of
the Lamb!”
And he
added,
“These are
the true
words of
God.”
10 At this
I fell at
his feet
to worship
him. But
he said to
me, “Don’t
do that! I
am a
fellow
servant
with you
and with
your
brothers
and
sisters
who hold
to the
testimony
of Jesus.
Worship
God! For
it is the
Spirit of
prophecy
who bears
testimony
to Jesus.”
The
Heavenly
Warrior
Defeats
the Beast
11 I saw
heaven
standing
open and
there
before me
was a
white
horse,
whose
rider is
called
Faithful
and True.
With
justice he
judges and
wages war.
12 His
eyes are
like
blazing
fire, and
on his
head are
many
crowns. He
has a name
written on
him that
no one
knows but
he
himself.
13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
16 On his
robe and
on his
thigh he
has this
name
written:
king of
kings and
lord of
lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
18 so that
you may
eat the
flesh of
kings,
generals,
and the
mighty, of
horses and
their
riders,
and the
flesh of
all
people,
free and
slave,
great and
small.”
19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.
20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
21 The
rest were
killed
with the
sword
coming out
of the
mouth of
the rider
on the
horse, and
all the
birds
gorged
themselves
on their
flesh.