Threefold Hallelujah Over Babylon’s Fall
1After 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,
2for 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.”
3And again they shouted:
“Hallelujah!
The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”
4The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried:
“Amen, Hallelujah!”
5Then a voice came from the throne, saying:
“Praise our God,
all you his servants,
you who fear him,
both great and small!”
6Then 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.
7Let us rejoice and be glad
and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
and his bride has made herself ready.
8Fine linen, bright and clean,
was given her to wear.”
(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people.)
9Then 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.”
10At 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
11I 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. 12His 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. 13He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”19:15 Psalm 2:9 He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
king of kings and lord of lords.
17And 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, 18so 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.”
19Then 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. 20But 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. 21The 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.
Shangwe Huko Mbinguni
119:1 Ufu 11:15; 7:10; 4:11Baada ya haya nikasikia sauti kama ya umati mkubwa mbinguni wakipiga kelele wakisema:
“Haleluya!
Wokovu na utukufu na uweza ni vya Mungu wetu,
219:2 Kum 32:43; Ufu 6:10kwa maana hukumu zake
ni za kweli na za haki.
Amemhukumu yule kahaba mkuu
aliyeuharibu ulimwengu kwa uzinzi wake.
Mungu amemlipiza kisasi
kwa ajili ya damu ya watumishi wake.”
319:3 Isa 34:10; Ufu 14:11Wakasema tena kwa nguvu:
“Haleluya!
Moshi wake huyo kahaba unapanda juu
milele na milele.”
419:4 Ufu 4:4-6; 5:14Wale wazee ishirini na wanne pamoja na wale viumbe wanne wenye uhai wakaanguka kifudifudi, wakamwabudu Mungu, aliyekuwa ameketi kwenye kile kiti cha enzi. Wakasema kwa sauti kuu:
“Amen, Haleluya!”
519:5 Za 134:1; Ufu 11:18Kisha sauti ikatoka katika kile kiti cha enzi, ikisema:
“Msifuni Mungu wetu,
ninyi watumishi wake wote,
ninyi nyote mnaomcha,
wadogo kwa wakubwa!”
619:6 Ufu 11:15Kisha nikasikia sauti kama ya umati mkubwa, kama sauti ya maji mengi yaendayo kasi na kama ngurumo kubwa ya radi wakipiga kelele wakisema:
“Haleluya!
Kwa maana Bwana Mungu wetu Mwenyezi anatawala.
719:7 Mt 25:10; Efe 5:32; Ufu 21:2, 9Tufurahi, tushangilie
na kumpa utukufu!
Kwa maana arusi ya Mwana-Kondoo imewadia
na bibi arusi wake amejiweka tayari.
819:8 Ufu 15:4; 19:14; 15:6; Isa 61:10; Eze 44:17; Zek 3:4Akapewa kitani safi, nyeupe
inayongʼaa, ili avae.”
(Hiyo kitani safi inawakilisha matendo ya haki ya watakatifu.)
919:9 Ufu 1:19; Lk 14:15; Ufu 21:5; 22:6Ndipo malaika akaniambia, “Andika: ‘Wamebarikiwa wale walioalikwa kwenye karamu ya arusi ya Mwana-Kondoo!’ ” Naye akaongeza kusema, “Haya ndiyo maneno ya kweli ya Mungu.”
1019:10 Ufu 22:8; Mdo 10:25, 26; Ufu 22:9; 12:17Ndipo nikaanguka kifudifudi miguuni pake ili kumwabudu, lakini yeye akaniambia, “Usifanye hivyo! Mimi pia ni mtumishi mwenzako pamoja na ndugu zako walio na ushuhuda wa Yesu. Mwabudu Mungu! Maana ushuhuda wa Yesu ndio roho ya unabii.”
Aliyepanda Farasi Mweupe
1119:11 Ufu 6:2; 3:14; Kut 15:3Kisha nikaona mbingu imefunguka na hapo mbele yangu akiwepo farasi mweupe, ambaye yeye aliyempanda aliitwa Mwaminifu na Kweli. Yeye huhukumu kwa haki na kufanya vita. 1219:12 Ufu 1:14; 6:2; 2:17Macho yake ni kama miali ya moto na juu ya kichwa chake kuna taji nyingi. Ana jina lililoandikwa ambalo hakuna mtu yeyote anayelijua isipokuwa yeye mwenyewe. 1319:13 Isa 63:2, 3; Yn 1:1Amevaa joho lililochoviwa katika damu, na Jina lake ni “Neno la Mungu.” 1419:14 Ufu 19:8; 3:4; 17:14Majeshi ya mbinguni walikuwa wakimfuata, wakiwa wamepanda farasi weupe, hali wamevaa mavazi ya kitani safi, nyeupe na nzuri. 1519:15 Ufu 1:16; 12:5; 14:20; Isa 11:4; 2The 2:8; Za 2:9Kinywani mwake hutoka upanga mkali ambao kwa huo atayaangusha mataifa. “Atayatawala kwa fimbo yake ya utawala ya chuma.” Hulikanyaga shinikizo la mvinyo wa ghadhabu ya Mungu Mwenyezi. 1619:16 Ufu 17:14; 19:12; 1Tim 6:15Kwenye joho lake na paja lake pameandikwa jina hili:
Mfalme wa wafalme, na Bwana wa mabwana.
Mnyama Na Majeshi Yake Yashindwa
1719:17 Ufu 8:13; Eze 39:17Nami nikamwona malaika amesimama ndani kwenye jua, akaita ndege wote warukao angani kwa sauti kuu, “Njooni, kusanyikeni kwa ajili ya karamu kubwa ya Mungu, 1819:18 Eze 39:18-20ili mpate kula nyama ya wafalme na ya majemadari, ya mashujaa, ya farasi na ya wapanda farasi, nyama ya wanadamu, wote walio huru na watumwa, wadogo na wakubwa.”
1919:19 Ufu 16:14, 16Kisha nikamwona yule mnyama na wafalme wa dunia pamoja na majeshi yao wakiwa wamekusanyika pamoja ili kufanya vita dhidi ya yule aliyempanda farasi pamoja na jeshi lake. 2019:20 Ufu 16:13; 13:12; Dan 7:11; Ufu 21:8; 14:19Lakini yule mnyama akakamatwa pamoja na huyo nabii wa uongo ambaye alikuwa amefanya ishara kwa niaba ya huyo mnyama, ambaye kwa ishara hizi aliwadanganya wale waliopokea chapa ya huyo mnyama na kuiabudu sanamu yake. Hawa wawili wakatupwa wakiwa hai ndani ya ziwa la moto liwakalo kwa kiberiti. 21Wale waliosalia waliuawa kwa upanga uliotoka kinywani mwa yule aliyekuwa amempanda farasi nao ndege wote wakajishibisha kwa nyama yao.
