Then I saw a Lamb standing on Mount Zion in Jeru shalem, and with were 144,000 who had His Name and His Father’s Name written on their fore-heads.
2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roaring of a great waterfall or the rolling of mighty thunder. It was the singing of a choir accompanied by harps.
3 This tremendous choir-144,000 strong-sang a wonderful new song in front of the throne of God, and before the four Living Beings and the twenty-four elders; and no one could sing this song except these 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
4 For they are spiritually undefiled, pure as virgins, following the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been purchased from among the men on the earth as a consecrated offering to God and the Lamb.
5 No falsehood can be charged against them; they are blameless.
6 And I saw another angel flying through the heavens, carrying the everlasting Good News to preach to those on earth to every nation, tribe, language and people.
7 “Fear God,” he shouted, “and extol His great-ness. For the time has come when He will sit as Judge. Worship Him who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all its sources.”
8 Then another angel followed him through the skies, saying, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen-that great city because she seduced the nations of the world and made them share the wine of her intense impurity and sin.”
9 Then a third angel followed them shouting, “Anyone worshiping the Creature from the sea and his statue and accepting his mark on the forehead or the hand,
10 Must drink the wine of the anger of God; it is poured out undiluted into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb.
11 The smoke of their torture rises forever and ever, and they will have no relief day or night, for they have worshiped the Creature and his statue, and have been ta toed with the code of his name.
12 Let this encourage God’s people to endure patiently every trial and persecution, for they are His
