Father Mike Schmitz

The riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lion's heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur issued from their mouths.

By these three plagues, a third of mankind was killed by the fire and smoke and sulfur issuing from their mouths.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails.

Their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, nor give up worshipping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or walk.

Nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their immorality or their thefts.

Chapter 10 The Angel with the Little Scroll

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.

He had a little scroll open in his hand, and he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land and called out with a loud voice like a lion roaring.

When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.

And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.

And the angel whom I saw standing on sea and land lifted up his right hand to heaven and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there should be no more delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God, as he announced to his servants, the prophets should be fulfilled.

Then the voice which I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, Go, take the scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.

Chapter 11 The Two Witnesses

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and I was told, rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there.

But do not measure the court outside the temple.

Leave that out for it is given over to the nations and they will trample over the holy city for 42 months.

And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for 1,260 days clothed in sackcloth.

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth.

And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes.