Father Mike Schmitz

If anyone would harm them, thus he is doomed to be killed.

They have power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying.

And they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to afflict the earth with every plague as often as they desire.

And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends from the bottomless pit will make war upon them and conquer them and kill them.

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

For three days and a half, men from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb.

And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.

But after three and a half days, a breath of life from God entered them and they stood up on their feet and great fear fell on those who saw them.

Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, Come up here.

And in the sight of their foes, they went up to heaven in a cloud.

And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell.

Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The second woe has passed.

Behold, the third woe is soon to come.

The Seventh Trumpet Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.

And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshipped God, saying, We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who are and who were, that you have taken your great power and begun to reign.

The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged.

for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.

Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple.

And there were flashes of lightning, loud noises, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.