Revelation Scripture Study
Revelation 11
2 Chr 3:1-8 (The temple is built according to the measurements of Solomon)
Ez 40:1-5 (Ezekiel is told to measure the vision of the new temple, before the Lord’s glory comes to the temple)
Zech 2:1-5 [may be Zech 2:5-9] (Zechariah follows a man who measures a new Jerusalem)
Zech 4:1-14 (Zerubbabel rebuilt the temple after the exile. In the temple, Zechariah sees the lampstand fed by two olive trees)
Mat 1:17 (There were 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus, i.e. 3 times 14)
Dan 7:16-26, especially v. 25 (Daniel is told the fourth beast in his vision will reign for a time, two times, and half a time.)
Note: A year, two years, and half a year is three and a half years. 3.5 years comes to 42 months or 1260 days. Three and a half years is half of a seven year period.
Dt 19:15 (Two witnesses are required to substantiate a criminal charge)
Mt 26:59-61 (Two false witnesses testified against Jesus before the chief priests)
Jn 20:11-13 (Two angels bear witness to Jesus’ resurrection)
Acts 1:4-11 (Jesus ascends; the disciples shall be witnesses; two angels testify that Jesus will return)
Mk 9:2-13 (Moses and Elijah appear as two witnesses with Jesus at the Transfiguration)
Num 16:1-35 (Korah, a Levite, and Dathan and Abiram, Reubenites, seek the priesthood from Moses and are consumed by the earth and by fire)
2 Kgs 1:1-18 (King Ahaziah seeks the counsel of a pagan god; Elijah told him he would die; then Ahaziah sends out troops to bring Elijah, fire comes down to consume the soldiers)
1 Kings 18:19-40 (Elijah battles the prophets of Baal, calling down fire to consume his sacrifice)
Lk 9:51-56 (The disciples want to call down fire from heaven to consume the Samaritans)
1 Kgs 17:1-7 (Elijah declares that no rain shall fall)
Lk 4:25-26 (Jesus refers to Elijah who closed the heavens for three and a half years)
James 5:16-18 (Elijah was a righteous man who prayed and there was a drought for three and a half years)
Ex 7:19-21ff (Moses turns the water of the Nile to blood, nine more plagues follow)
Sir 45:1-5 (Moses worked mighty signs, gave the law, and beheld God face to face)
Sir 48:1-12 (Elijah was a prophet who closed the heavens and brought down fire)
Jn 5:33-35 (John the Baptist was a shining lamp bearing witnesses to Jesus)
Jn 5:37-40 (The scriptures also bear witnesses to Jesus)
Jn 5:45-46 (Moses wrote of Jesus; Moses will be the one to accuse those who reject Him)
Tob 1:18-20 (Tobit was punished for the corporal work of mercy of burying the dead)
Mt 14:3-11 (Herod imprisoned John because he preached against him. John is beheaded on the occasion of a party in which he head is asked for as a gift.)
2 Kgs 2:9-12 (Elijah is assumed into Heaven)
Ps 46:6-7 (The nations rage; God’s voice melts them; God is a refuge for Jacob)
2 Macc 2:1-8 (Jeremiah hid the ark of the covenant before going into exile; they will be made known by God when he gathers together his people again)
Revelation 11:1 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,
2 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 forty-two months.
3 And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth.
5 And if any one would harm them, fire pours out from their mouth and consumes their foes; if any one would harm them, thus he is doomed to be killed.
6 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 smite the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
7 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,
8 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.
9 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,
10 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.
11 But after the 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.
12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up hither!" And in the sight of their foes they went up to heaven in a cloud.
13 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.
14 The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.
15 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 for ever and ever."
16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,
17 saying, "We give thanks to thee, Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast, that thou hast taken thy great power and begun to reign.
18 The nations raged, but thy wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
19 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, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
2 Chr 3:1-8 (The temple is built according to the measurements of Solomon)
1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
3 These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
4 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house; and its height was a hundred and twenty cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.
5 The nave he lined with cypress, and covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it.
6 He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.
7 So he lined the house with gold -- its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8 And he made the most holy place; its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits; he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.
Ez 40:1-5 (Ezekiel is told to measure the vision of the new temple, before the Lord’s glory comes to the temple)
1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was conquered, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me,
2 and brought me in the visions of God into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city opposite me.
3 When he brought me there, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring reed in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.
4 And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your mind upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you; declare all that you see to the house of Israel."
5 And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length; so he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Zech 2:1-5 [may be Zech 2:5-9] (Zechariah follows a man who measures a new Jerusalem)
1 And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!
2 Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."
3 And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him,
4 and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, `Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.
5 For I will be to her a wall of fire round about, says the LORD, and I will be the glory within her.'"
Zech 4:1-14 (Zerubbabel rebuilt the temple after the exile. In the temple, Zechariah sees the lampstand fed by two olive trees)
1 And the angel who talked with me came again, and waked me, like a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
2 And he said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps which are on the top of it.
3 And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left."
4 And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
5 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."
6 Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
7 What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain; and he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of `Grace, grace to it!'"
8 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
9 "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
10 For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. "These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth."
11 Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?"
12 And a second time I said to him, "What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the oil is poured out?"
13 He said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."
14 Then he said, "These are the two anointed who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."
Mat 1:17 (There were 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus, i.e. 3 times 14)
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
Dan 7:16-26, especially v. 25 (Daniel is told the fourth beast in his vision will reign for a time, two times, and half a time.)
16 I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.
17 `These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, for ever and ever.'
19 "Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrible, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze; and which devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up and before which three of them fell, the horn which had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and which seemed greater than its fellows.
21 As I looked, this horn made war with the saints, and prevailed over them,
22 until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints received the kingdom.
23 "Thus he said: `As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces.
24 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings.
25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, two times, and half a time.
26 But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end.
NB: A year, two years, and half a year is three and a half years. 3.5 years comes to 42 months or 1260 days. Three and a half years is half of a seven year period.
Dt 19:15 (Two witnesses are required to substantiate a criminal charge)
15 "A single witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed; only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall a charge be sustained.