Live from Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE, covering KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2017. Brought to you by Red Hat, the Linux Foundation, and the Kube's ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone. Live here in Austin, Texas, the Kube's exclusive coverage of the CNCF, CloudNativeCon, which is yesterday and today is KubeCon, for Kubernetes conference and a little bit tomorrow as well. Some sessions are next because of Adrian Cockroft, VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at AWS Amazon Web Services, and my co-host, Stu Miniman. Obviously, Adrian, an industry legend on Twitter and the industry, formerly with Netflix, knows a lot about AWS now. VP of Cloud Architecture, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. This is our first time as an AWS employee on theCUBE. You've been verified. You've been on theCUBE before. Many times. You've been verified. What's going on now with you guys obviously coming off a hugely successful reinventment. A ton of video of me ranting and raving about how you guys are winning and there's no second place in the rear view mirror. Certainly, Amazon's doing great, but CloudNative's got the formula here. This is a cultural shift. What is going on here that's similar to what you guys are doing architecturally? Why are you guys here? Are you evangelizing? Are you recruiting? Are you proposing anything? What's the story? Yeah, it's really all of those things. We've been doing CloudNative for a long time and the key thing with AWS, we always listen to our customers and go wherever they take us. That's a big piece of the way we've always managed to keep on top of everything. And in this case, the whole container industry is on market there. A lot of different pieces. We've been working on that for a long time. We found more and more people interested in CNTF and Kubernetes and really started to engage. Part of my role is to host the open-source team that does outbound engagement with all the different open-source communities. So I've hired a few people. I had Arun Gupta who's very active in CNTF earlier this year and internally we were looking at we need to join CNTF at some point. We've got to do that eventually and then she went let's go make it happen. So last summer, we just did all the internal paperwork and running around talking to people and got everyone on the same page and then in August, we announced, hey, we're joining. We got that done. I'm on the board of CNTF, Arun's my alternate for the board and technical running around and really keep deeply involved in as much of the technology and everything. And then that was largely so that we could kind of get our contributions from engineering on a clear footing. We were starting to contribute to Kubernetes like as an outsider to the whole thing. So I was like, what's going on here? So getting that in place was like the basis for getting the contributions in place. We start hiring, we get the teams in place and then getting our ducks in a row if you like. And then last week at re-invent, we announced EKS, the easy to Kubernetes service. And this week we're, we all had to be here. It's like last week after re-invent, everyone at AWS wants to go and sleep for a week. But no, we're going to go to Austin. We're going to do this. So we have about 20 people here and came in, I did a keynote yesterday. Can talk through the different topics there. But fundamentally we wanted to be here where we've got the engineering teams here. We've got the engineering managers, they're in full on hiring mode because we've got the basic teams in place but there's a lot more we want to do and we're just going out and engaging and really getting to know the customers in detail. So that's really what drives it. Customer interactions, a little bit of hiring and just being present in this community. Adrien, you're very well known in the open source community.  Amazon, many of us from the outside looked in trying to understand. Obviously Amazon used a lot of open source. Amazon has participated in a number of source. I mean, MXNEC got a lot of attention, joined the CNCF or something. I know this community, it's been very positively achieved, everybody's been waiting for it. What can you tell us about how Amazon, how do they think about open source? Is that something that fits into the strategy or is it a tactic? Obviously you're building out your teams, that sends certain signals to the market but can you help clarify for those of us that have been watching what Amazon thinks about when it comes to this space? I think we've been, so we didn't really have a team focused on outbound communication of what we were doing in open source until I started building this team a year ago. I think that was the missing link. We were actually doing a lot more than most people realized. I'd summarize it as saying, we were doing more than most people expected but less than we probably could have been at given the scale of what we are. The scale of the AWS is at. So part of what we're doing is unlocking some internal demand where engineering teams were going we'd like to open source something, we don't know how to engage with the communities, we're trying to build trust with these communities and I've hired a team of several people now who are mostly from the open source community. We're at Oskar interviewing people like crazy. That was our sourcing for this team, right? So we get these people in and then we kind of say, we have somebody that understands how to build these communities, how to respond, how to engage with the open source communities. It's a little different to a standard customer, enterprise, data. Those are different entities that you'd want to relate to. But from a customer point of view and being customer obsessed as AWS is, how do we get AWS to listen to an open source community and work with them and meet all their concerns? So we've been, I think, doing a better job of that now, pretty much got the team in point. You're at your point. Customer focus is the ethos there. The communities are your customers in this case. So you're formalizing that for Amazon, which has been so busy building out and contributing here and there. So it sounds like there was a lot of activity going on within AWS. Just, it was just kind of like contributing, but so much work on building out cloud. Well, there was a lot going on, but if no one was out there telling the story, he didn't know about it. I mean, we've been, so actually one of the best analogies we have for the EC, for EKS is actually our EMR, our Hadoop service, which launched, you know, 2010 or something, 2000 or no, had it forever. But from the first few years when we did EMR, it was actually a fork. We kept just sort of building our own version of it to do things, but about three or four years ago, we started upstreaming everything, and it's a completely clean, upstreamed version of all the Hadoop and all the related projects. But you make one API call and a cluster appears, right? Hey, give me a Hadoop cluster. Boom, and I want Spark and I want all these other things on it. And we're basically taking Kubernetes, it's very similar. We're going to reduce that to a single API call. A cluster appears, and it's a fully upstreamed experience, right? So that's, you know, in terms of engineering relationship to open source, we've already got a pretty good success story that nobody really knew about, and we're following a very similar pattern. Yeah, Adrian, can you help us kind of unpack the Amazon Kubernetes stack a little bit? One of the announcements had a lot of attention, definitely got our head fargate and kind of sits underneath what Kubernetes is doing. My understanding, where are you sitting with the service measures? Kind of bring us through the Amazon stack. What does Amazon do on its own versus, you know, the open source and how those all fit together?  That's easy to give me a virtual machine from 10 years ago. Everyone gets that, right? And then about three years ago, three years ago we announced Lambda. Two or three years ago? I lose track of how many re-invents ago it was. But what Lambda is like, well, here's, just give me a function, right? But as a first-class entity, there's an API, give me a function, here's the code I want you to run. We've now added two new ways that you can deploy to, two things you can deploy to. One of them is Bare Metal, which is another announcement, one of the many, many, many announcements last week that you might have slipped by without you noticing, but Bare Metal is a service. Yeah, people go, those machines are really big. Yes, of course they're really big. You got the whole machine and you can do it. Bring your own virtualization or run whatever you want. But you could launch, you could run, you can add this on that if you want to. I don't really care what you run it on, but so we have Bare Metal and then we have Container. So Fargate is Container as a first-class entity that you deploy to, so here's my Container registry, point you at it and run one of these for me, right? You don't have to think about deploying the underlying machines it's running on. You don't have to think about what version of Linux it is, build an AMI, all of the agents and fussing around. And you can get it in much smaller chunks. So you can say you get CPU and half a gig of RAM and have that as just a small container. So it becomes much more granular for, and you can get a broader range of mixes. A lot of our instances are sort of powers of two of a ratio of CPU to memory. And with Fargate you can ask for a much broader ratio to get more CPU, less memory and go back the other way as well because we can mix it up more easily at the Container level. So it gives you a lot more flexibility and if you buy into this, basically you'll be able to do a lot of cost reduction for the sort of smaller scale things that you're running, maybe test environments. You can shrink them down to just the containers and not have a lot of wasted space where you're trying to, you have too many instances running that you want to put it in. So that's partly the finer grain giving you more ability to save money. More consumption choice. Yeah, and we've also, the other thing that we did recently was move to per second billing. After the first minute it's per second. So the granularity of cloud is now getting to be extremely fine grain and lander is per 100 milliseconds. So it's just a little bit. Four alls and three cents for your bill. I mean, this is the key thing. I mean, you guys have simplified the consumption experience. You've got bare metal, VMs, containers, and functions. Pick one. Pick one. Or pick all of them. It's fine. And when you look at the way Fargate's deployed in ECS, it's a mixture. It's not all one or all the other. You deploy a number of instances with your containers on them plus Fargate to deploy some additional containers that maybe didn't fit those instances. Maybe you've got a fleet of GPU enhanced machines but you want to run a bit of logic around it. Some other containers in the same execution environment but these don't need to be on the GPU. That kind of thing. You want to mix it up. So the other part of the question was, so how does this play into Kubernetes? And the discussions have just started. We had to release the thing first and then we can start talking. Okay, how does this fit? And it sort of, parts of the model fit into Kubernetes parts don't. So we have to expose some more functionality in Fargate for this to make sense. Cause we've got a really minimal initial release right now and we're going to expose it and add some more features. And then we possibly have to look at ways that we mutate Kubernetes a little bit for it to fit. So the initial EKS release won't include Fargate because we're just trying to get it out based on what everyone knows today. We'd rather get that out earlier and then we'll be doing development work in the meantime. So a subsequent release will have done the integration work which will happen in public in discussion with the community and we'll have a debate about, okay, this is the features Fargate needs to properly integrate into Kubernetes and there are other similar services from other cloud providers that want to integrate to the same API. So it's all going to be done as a public development of how we are. So I started tweeting, I want to get your comments on it from your keynote. Someone retweeted, managing over 100,000 pluses on ECS hashtag Fargate integrated into ECS, you know, your hashtag open, 80 episodes open. What is that 100,000 number? Is that the total number? Is that an example on Elastica Containers Service? What does that number mean? So ECS is our very large scale, multi-tenant container operation service that we've had for several years. It's in production, if you compare it to Kubernetes, it's running much larger clusters and it's been running at production grade for longer. So it's a little bit more robust and secure and all those kinds of things. I think it's missing some Kubernetes features and there's a few places where we want to bring in capabilities in Kubernetes and make ECS a better experience for people. Think of Kubernetes as somewhat optimized for the developer experience and ECS more for the operations experience in which we're trying to bring all this together. Yeah, it is operating over 100,000 clusters of containers. Over 100,000 clusters and I think the other number was hundreds of millions of new containers are launched every week or something like that. I think it was for hundreds of millions a week. So it's a very large scale system that is already deployed and we're running some extremely large customers like Expedia and MacBook, MacBook, MacBooks who are, and some of these people are running tens of thousands of containers in production as a single, we have single clusters in the tens of thousands. So it's a different beast and it meets a certain need and we're going to evolve it forwards and Kubernetes is solving a very different purpose. I mean, just if you look at our data science space, if you want exactly the same Hadoop thing, you can get that on-prem, you can run EMR, but we have Athena and Redshift and all these other ways that are more native to the way we think where we can go iterate and build something very specific to AWS. So you blend these two together and it depends on what you're trying to achieve. Well, Adrian, congratulations on a great opportunity. I think the world is excited to have you in your role who clarify and just put us the narrative around what's actually happening in AWS, what's been happening and what you guys going to do forward. I'll give you the last minute to let folks know what your job is, what your objective is, what you're looking for to hire and your philosophy in the open source for AWS. Yeah, I think there's a couple of other projects. We talked, this is really all about containers. The other two key project areas that we've been looking at are deep learning frameworks. It's all of the deep learning frameworks are open source. A lot of Kubernetes people are using it to run GPUs and do that kind of stuff. So Apache MXNet is another focus for my team. It became incubated, went into the incubation phase last January. We're walking it through, helping it on its way. It's something where we're 30, 40% of that project is AWS contributions. We're not dominating it, but we're one of its main sponsors. And we're working with other companies. There's joint work with, it's also open source projects around here. We're working with Microsoft on Glue-On. We're working with Facebook and Microsoft on Onyx, which is an open neural network exchange. There's a whole lot of things going on here and I have somebody on my team who hasn't started yet, I can't tell you who it is, but they're starting pretty soon, who's going to be focusing on that open source, deep learning AI space. And the final area I think is interesting is IoT, serverless, edge, that whole space. One announcement recently is FreeRTOS. So again, we've sort of acquired the founder of this thing, the free roll time operating system. Everything you have probably, you probably personally own hundreds of instances of this without knowing it. It's in everything.  So it's incredibly pervasive and we did an open source announcement last week where we switched its license to be a pure MIT license to be more friendly for the community and announced an Amazon version of it with better Amazon integration, but also some upgrades to the open source version. So again, we're pushing an open source platform strategy in the embedded and IoT space as well. Enabling people to build great software, take the software engineering hassle out for the application developers, while giving the software engineers more engineering opportunities to create some good stuff. Thanks for coming on theCUBE and congratulations on your continued success and looking forward to following up. The Amazon Web Services open source collaboration, contribution, and of course innovation. It's theCUBE doing its part here with its open source content, three days of coverage of Cloud DativeCon and KubeCon. It's our second day. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. We'll be back with more live coverage in Austin, Texas after this short break. Thank you.


Chapter 1 of the Revelation of John, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Sam Stinson, by hisfaith.com. Chapter 1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass, and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John, who bear witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein, for the time is at hand. John, to the seven churches that are in Asia, grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits that are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth, unto him that loveth us and loosed us from our sins by his blood, and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father, to him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever, amen. Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him, even so, amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, sayeth the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. I, John, your brother, and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom, and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet saying, what thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches, unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea, and I turned to see the voice that spake with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks, and in the midst of the candlesticks, one like unto a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and gird about at the breasts with a golden girdle, and his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace, and his voice as the voice of many waters, and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp, two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength, and when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead, and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one, and I was dead, and behold, I am alive, for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades, right therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter, the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are seven churches. End of chapter one. Chapter two of the Revelation of John, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Sam Stinson by his faith.com. Chapter two. To the Angel of the Church in Ephesus. Right. These things sayeth he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and it's try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and it's find them false. And thou hast patience, and it's bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary. But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love. Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works. Or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He that hatheneer, let him hear what the spirit sayeth to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give, to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. And to the angel of the church, in Smyrna, right. These things sayeth the first and the last, who was dead and lived again. I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou art rich, and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they are not but are a synagogue of Satan. Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. He that hatheneer, let him hear what the spirit sayeth to the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. And to the angel of the church, in Pergamum, right. These things sayeth he that hath the sharp two-edged sword. I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan's throne is, and thou holdest fast my name, and it's not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, were Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balaak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou also some that hold the teaching of the Nicoliotans in like manner. Repent, therefore, or else, I will come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. He that hatheneer, let him hear what the spirit sayeth to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it. And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things sayeth the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass. I know thy works, and thy love, and faith, and ministry, and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.  And I gave her time that she should repent, and she willeth not to repent of her fornication. Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works.  But to you, I say, to the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, who know not the deep things of Satan, as they are want to say, I cast upon you none other burden. Nevertheless, that which ye have hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers, as I also have received of my father, and I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit sayeth to the churches. End of chapter 2. Chapter 3 of the Revelation of John, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Sam Stinson, by his faith.com. Chapter 3. And to the angel of the church in Sardis, write, These things sayeth he that hath the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars. I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead. Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die, for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God. Remember therefore how thou hast received, and its tear, and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. But thou hast a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. He that over cometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my father, and before his angels. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit sayeth to the churches. And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write, These things sayeth he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openness and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth. I know thy works, behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which none can shut, that thou hast a little power, and its keep my word, and its not deny my name. Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not. But do lie, behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee, from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. I come quickly, hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown. He that over cometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, in mine own new name. He that hath in ear, let him hear what the spirit sayeth to the churches, and to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, these things sayeth thee, amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou work colder hot, because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold. I will spew thee out of my mouth, because thou sayest I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched one, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked? I counsel thee to buy of me gold, refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich, and white garments that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest, and eyesaf to anoint thine eyes that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will supp with him, and he with me. He that over cometh, I will give to him, to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my father in his throne. He that hatheneer, let him hear what the Spirit sayeth to the churches. End of chapter 3. Chapter 4 of the Revelation of John, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Sam Stinson by hisfaith.com. Chapter 4. After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter. Straight way I was in the Spirit, and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne.  And there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon. And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones. And upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting arrayed in white garments, and on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. And before the throne as it were a sea of glass like unto crystal. And in the midst of the throne and round about the throne four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.  And the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.  And they have no rest day and night saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the almighty, who was and who is, and who is to come. And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth forever and ever, the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth forever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were and were created. 5. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals, and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof, and no one in the heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look thereon. And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not, behold the lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David hath overcome to open the book and the seven seals thereof. And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a lamb, standing as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth unto all the earth. And he came and he taketh out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb, having each one a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou was slain, and its purchase unto God with thy blood, men of every tribe, and tongue and people and nation, and made us them to be unto our God, a kingdom and priests, and they reign upon the earth. And I saw and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, saying with a great voice, Worthy is the lamb that hath been slain to receive the power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. And every created thing which is in the heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea and all things that are in them heard I saying unto him that sitteth on the throne and unto the lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the elders fell down and worshiped. Please visit lippervox.org, recording by Sam Stinson, by his faith.com, chapter six. And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, Come. And I saw and behold a white horse and he that sat thereon had a bow and there was given unto him a crown and he came forth conquering and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come. And another horse came forth, a red horse and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth and that they should slay one another. And there was given unto him a great sword. And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come. And I saw and behold a black horse and he that sat thereon had a balance in his hand. And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, a measure of wheat for a shilling and three measures of barley for a shilling, and the oil and the wine hurt thou not. And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come. And I saw and behold a pale horse and he that sat upon him, his name was Death. And Hades followed with him and there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with famine and with death and by the wild beasts of the earth. And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a great voice saying, How long, O master, the holy and true, does thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And there was given them to each one a white robe and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little time until their fellow servants also in their brethren who should be killed even as they were should have fulfilled their course. And I saw when he opened the sixth seal and there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sat cloth of hair and the whole moon became as blood and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind and the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up and every mountain and island were moved out of their places and the kings of the earth and the princes and the chief captains and the rich and the strong and every bond man and freedmen hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains and they say to the mountains and to the rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb for the great day of their wrath is come and who is able to stand. End of chapter six chapter seven of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox.org recording by sam stinson by his faith dot com chapter seven after this i saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth that no wind should blow on the earth or on the sea or upon any tree and i saw another angel ascend from the sun rising having the seal of the living god and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea saying hurt not the earth neither the sea nor the trees till we shall have sealed the servants of our god on their foreheads and i heard the number of them that were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand sealed out of every tribe of the children of israel of the tribe of juda were sealed 12 000 of the tribe of rubin 12 000 of the tribe of gad 12 000 of the tribe of asher 12 000 of the tribe of naftali 12 000 of the tribe of manasa 12 000 of the tribe of simian 12 000 of the tribe of levi 12 000 of the tribe of izakar 12 000 of the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, of the tribe of Joseph 12,000, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed 12,000. After these things I saw and behold a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation, and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes and palms in their hands, and they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation unto our God, who sitteth on the throne and unto the Lamb. And all the angels were standing round about the throne and about the elders and the forliving creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God, saying, Amen, blessing in glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be unto our God, for ever and ever, Amen. And one of the elders answered saying unto me, these that are arrayed in white robes, who are they and whence came they? And I say unto him, my Lord, thou knowest, and he said to me, these are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat, for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. End of chapter 7. Chapter 8 of the Revelation of John, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Sam Stinson, by hisfaith.com. Chapter 8. And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven, about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels that stand before God, and there were given unto them seven trumpets, and another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add it unto the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints went up before God, out of the angel's hand, and the angel takeeth the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the earth, and there followed thunders and voices and lightnings and an earthquake. And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound, and the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth, and the third part of the earth was burned up, and the third part of the trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up. And the second angel sounded, as it were a great mountain burning with fire, was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood, and there died the third part of the creatures, which were in the sea, even they that had life, and the third part of the ships was destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a great star burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became Wormwood, and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, that the third part of them should be darkened, and the days should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner. And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, Whoa, whoa, whoa, for them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels who are yet to sound. Fallen unto the earth, and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss, and he opened the pit of the abyss, and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads. And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months, and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikeeth a man. And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it, and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war, and upon their heads, as it were, crowns like unto gold. And their faces were as men's faces, and they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breast plates, as it were, breast plates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses rushing to war. And they have tails like unto scorpions and stings, and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months. They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name Apollyon. The first woe is passed. Behold, there come yet two woes hereafter. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar, which is before God, one saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet. Loose the four angels that are bound at the Great River Euphrates, and the four angels were loosed that had been prepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they should kill the third part of men. And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard the number of them, and thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them having breastplates as a fire and hyacinth of brimstone, and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three plagues was the third part of men killed by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads, and with them they hurt. And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. And they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. End of chapter nine. Chapter 10 of The Revelation of John, American Standard Version This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Sam Stinson, by hisfaith.com. Chapter 10. And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, and he had in his hand a little book open, and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth, and he cried with a great voice as a lion roared, and when he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write. And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven, and swear by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, that there shall be delay no longer. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants, the prophets. And the voice which I heard from heaven, I heard it again speaking with me and saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel saying unto him that he should give me the little book, and he saith unto me, Take it, and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter. But in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up. And it was in my mouth sweet as honey. And when I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter. And they say unto me, Thou must prophecy again over many peoples and nations and tongues and kings. End of chapter 10. Chapter 11 of the Revelation of John, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Sam Stinson by hisfaith.com. Chapter 11. 40 and two months. And I will give unto my two witnesses. And they shall prophecy a thousand two hundred and three scored days clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the Lord of the earth.  And if any man shall desire to hurt them in this manner, must he be killed. These have the power to shut the heaven that reign not during the days of their prophecy. And they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with every plague as often as they shall desire. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them and overcome them and kill them. And their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom in Egypt where also their Lord was crucified. And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies three days and a half and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them and make merry and they shall send gifts one to another because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth. And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them that beheld them and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them come up hither and they went up into heaven in the cloud and their enemies beheld them and in that hour there was a great earthquake and the tenth part of the city fell and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand persons and the rest were affrighted and gave glory to the God of heaven the second woe is passed behold the third woe cometh quickly and the seventh angel sounded and there followed great voices in heaven and they said 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 foreign twenty elders who sit before god on their thrones fell upon their faces and worshiped god saying we give thee thanks oh lord god the almighty who art and who lust because thou hast taken thy great power and its reign and the nations were wroth and thy wrath came and the time of the dead to be judged and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets and to the saints and to them that fear thy name the small and the great and to destroy them that destroy the earth and there was opened the temple of god that is in heaven and there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant and there followed lightnings and voices and thunders and an earthquake and great hail end of chapter 11 chapter 12 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox dot org recording by sam stinson by his faith dot com chapter 12 and a great sign was seen in heaven a woman arrayed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of 12 stars and she was with child and she cried out travailing and birth and in pain to be delivered and there was seen another sign in heaven and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and upon his heads seven diadems and his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth and the dragon standeth before the woman that is about to be delivered that when she is delivered he may devour her child and she was delivered of a son a man child who is to rule all the nations with the rod of iron and her child was caught up unto god and unto his throne and the woman fled into the wilderness where she had the place prepared of god that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and three score days and there was war in heaven michael and his angels going forth to war with the dragon and the dragon warred and his angels and they prevailed not neither was their place found any more in heaven and the great dragon was cast down the old serpent he that is called the devil and satan the deceiver of the whole world he was cast down to the earth and his angels were cast down with him and i heard a great voice in heaven saying now is come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down who accuseth them before our god day and night and they overcame him because of the blood of the lamb and because of the word of their testimony and they loved not their life even unto death therefore rejoice oh heavens and ye that dwell in them woe for the earth and for the sea because the devil is gone down unto you having great wrath knowing that he hath but a short time and when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth he persecuted the woman that brought forth the manchild and there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent and the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream and the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth and the dragon waxed wroth with the woman and went away to make war with the rest of her seed that keep the commandments of god and hold the testimony of jesus end of chapter 12 chapter 13 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox dot org recording by sam stinson by his faith dot com chapter 13 and he stood upon the sand of the sea and i saw a beast coming up out of the sea having 10 horns and seven heads and on his horns 10 diadems and upon his heads names of blasphemy and the beast which i saw was like unto a leopard and his feet were as the feet of a bear and his mouth as the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power and his throne in great authority and i saw one of his heads as though it had been spittin unto death and his death stroke was healed and the whole earth wondered after the beast and they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority unto the beast and they worshiped the beast saying who is like unto the beast and who was able to war with him and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and there was given to him authority to continue 40 and two months and he opened his mouth for blasphemies against god to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle even them that dwell in the heaven and it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation and all that dwell on the earth shall worship him everyone whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb that hath been slain if any man hath a near let him hear if any man is for captivity into captivity he goeth if any man shall kill with the sword with the sword must he be killed here's the patience and the faith of the saints and i saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like unto a lamb and he spake as a dragon and he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his sight and he maketh the earth and them that dwell there into worship the first beast whose death stroke was healed and he doeth great signs that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men and he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived and it was given unto him to give breath to it even to the image of the beast that the image of the beast shall both speak and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed and he causeth all the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the free and the bond that there be given them a mark on their right hand or upon their forehead and that no man should be able to buy or to sell save he that hath the mark even the name of the beast or the number of his name here is wisdom he that hath understanding let him count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred and sixty and six end of chapter 13 chapter 14 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox dot org recording by sam stinson by his faith dot com chapter 14 and i saw and behold the lamb standing on the mount zion and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand having his name and the name of his father written on their foreheads and i heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and the voice which i heard was as the voice of harpers harping with their harps and they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders and no man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four thousand even they that had been purchased out of the earth those are they that were not defiled with women for they are virgins these are they that follow the lamb with or so ever he goeth these were purchased from among men to be the first fruits unto god and unto the lamb and in their mouth was found no lie they are without blemish and i saw another angel flying in mid heaven having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people and he saith with a great voice fear god and give him glory for the hour of his judgment is come and worship him that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters and another a second angel followed saying fallen fallen is babbling the great that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and another angel a third followed them saying with a great voice if any man worshipeth the beast and his image and receive it a mark on his forehead or upon his hand he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of god which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb and the smoke of their torment goeth up forever and ever and they have no rest day and night they that worship the beast and his image and who so receive it the mark of his name here is the patience of the saints they that keep the commandments of god and the faith of jesus and i heard a voice from heaven saying right blessed are the dead who die in the lord from henceforth yay say at the spirit that they may rest from their labors for their works follow with them and i saw and behold a white cloud and on the cloud i saw one sitting like unto a son of man having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle and another angel came out from the temple crying with a great voice to him that sat on the cloud send forth thy sickle and reap for the hour to reap his come for the harvest of the earth is ripe and he that sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth and the earth was reaped and another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven he also having a sharp sickle and another angel came out from the altar he that half power over fire and he called with a great voice to him that had the sharp sickle saying send forth thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe and the angel cast his sickle into the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth and cast it into the wine press the great wine press of the wrath of god and the wine press was trodden without the city and there came out blood from the wine press even unto the bridles of the horses as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs end of chapter 14 chapter 15 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libravox recording all libravox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libravox.org recording by sam stinson by his faith dot com chapter 15 and i saw another sign in heaven great and marvelous seven angels having seven plagues which are the last for in them is finished the wrath of god and i saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire and them that come off victorious from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name standing by the sea of glass having harps of god and they sing the song of moses the servant of god and the song of the lamb saying great and marvelous are thy works oh lord god the almighty righteous and true are thy ways thou king of the ages who shall not fear oh lord and glorify thy name for thou only art holy for all the nations shall come and worship before thee for thy righteous acts have been made manifest and after these things i saw and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened and there came out from the temple the seven angels that had the seven plagues arrayed with precious stone pure and bright and gird about their breasts with golden girdles and one of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of god who liveth forever and ever and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of god and from his power and none was able to enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels should be finished end of chapter 15 chapter 16 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox.org recording by sam stinson by his faith dot com chapter 16 and i heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels go ye and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of god into the earth and the first went and poured out his bowl into the earth and it became a noisome and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast and that worshipped his image and the second poured out his bowl into the sea and it became blood as of a dead man and every living soul died even the things that were in the sea and the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters and it became blood and i heard the angel of the water saying righteous art thou who art in who lust thou holy one because thou didst thus judge for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets and blood has thou given them to drink they are worthy and i heard the altar saying yay oh lord god the almighty true and righteous are thy judgments and the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire and men were scorched with great heat and they blasphemed the name of god who had the power over these plagues and they repented not to give him glory and the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast and his kingdom was darkened and they nod their tongues for pain and they blasphemed the god of heaven because of their pains and their sores and they repented not of their works and the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river the river euphrates and the water thereof was dried up that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sun rising and i saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet three unclean spirits as it were frogs for they are spirits of demons working signs which go forth unto the kings of the whole world to gather them together unto the war of the great day of god the almighty behold i come as a thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame and they gathered them together into the place which is called in hebrew har magidan and the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air and there came forth a great voice out of the temple from the throne saying it is done and there were lightnings and voices and thunders and there was a great earthquake such as was not since there were men upon the earth so great an earthquake so mighty and the great city was divided into three parts and the cities of the nations fell and babel and the great was remembered in the sight of god to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath and every island fled away and the mountains were not found and great hail every stone about the weight of a talent cometh down out of heaven upon men and men blasphemed god because of the plague of the hail for the plague thereof is exceeding great end of chapter 16 chapter 17 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox dot org recording by sam stinson by his faith dot com chapter 17 and there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls and spake with me saying come hither i will show the the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication and he carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness and i saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns and the woman was a raid and purple and scarlet and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations even the uncleaned things of her fornication and upon her forehead a name written mystery babbling the great the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth and i saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of jesus and when i saw her i wondered with a great wonder and the angel said unto me wherefore dits thou wonder i will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carryeth her which have these seven heads and the ten horns the beast that thou sawed was and is not and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world when they behold the beast how that he was and is not and shall come here is the mind that hath wisdom the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth and they are seven kings the five are fallen the one is the other is not yet come and when he cometh he must continue a little while and the beast that was and is not is himself also an eighth and is of the seven and he goeth into perdition and the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour these have one mind and they give their power and authority unto the beast these shall war against the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them for he is lord of lords and king of kings and they also shall overcome that are with him called and chosen and faithful and he saith unto me the waters which thou sawest where the harlot sitteth are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues and the ten horns which thou sawest and the beast these shall hate the harlot and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and shall burn her utterly with fire for God did put in their hearts to do his mind and to come to one mind and to give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God should be accomplished and the woman whom thou sawest is the great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. End of chapter 17. Chapter 18 of the revelation of john, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Sam Stinson by his faith.com. Chapter 18. After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven having great authority and the earth was lightened with his glory and he cried with a mighty voice saying fallen fallen is Babylon the great and has become a habitation of demons and a hold of every unclean spirit and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird for by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness and I heard another voice from heaven saying come forth my people out of her that ye have no fellowship with her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues for her sins have reached even unto heaven and God hath remembered her iniquities render unto her even as she rendered and double unto her the double according to her works in the cup which she mingled mingle unto her double how much so ever she glorified herself and waxed wanton so much give her of torment and mourning for she saith in her heart I sit a queen and am no widow and shall in no wise see mourning therefore in one day shall her plagues come death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burned with fire for strong is the Lord God who judged her and the kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her shall weep and wail over her when they look upon the smoke of her burning standing afar off for the fear of her torment saying whoa whoa the great city Babylon the strong city for in one hour is thy judgment come and the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her for no man buyeth their merchandise anymore merchandise of gold and silver and precious stone and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet and all thion wood and every vessel of ivory and every vessel made of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble and cinnamon and spice and incense and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep and merchandise of horses and chariots and slaves and souls of men and the fruits which thy soul lusted after are gone from thee and all things that were dainty and sumptuous are perished from thee and men shall find them no more at all the merchants of these things who were made rich by her shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment weeping and mourning saying whoa whoa the great city she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl for in one hour so great riches is made desolate and every shipmaster and everyone that saileth any with her and mariners and as many as gained their living by sea stood afar off and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning saying what city is like the great city and they cast dust on their heads and cried weeping and mourning saying whoa whoa the great city wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness for in one hour is she made desolate rejoice over her thou heaven and ye saints and ye apostles and ye prophets for god hath judged your judgment on her and a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea saying thus with a mighty fall shall babble in the great city be cast down and shall be found no more at all and the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee and no craftsmen of whatsoever craft shall be found any more at all in thee and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee for thy merchants were the princes of the earth for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived and in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that have been slain upon the earth. End of chapter 18. Chapter 19 of The Revelation of John, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Sam Stinson, by hisfaith.com. Chapter 19. After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven saying hallelujah salvation and glory and power belong to our garment for true and righteous are his judgments for he hath judged the great harlot her that corrupted the earth with her fornication and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. In a second time they say hallelujah and her smoke goeth up forever and ever and the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God that sitteth on the throne saying amen hallelujah and a voice came forth from the throne saying give praise to our God all ye his servants ye that fear him the small and the great and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thunders saying hallelujah for the Lord our God the almighty reigneth. Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad and let us give the glory unto him for the marriage of the lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready and it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen bright and pure for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints and he saith unto me right blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper of the lamb and he saith unto me these are true words of God and I fell down before his feet to worship him and he saith unto me see thou do it not I am a fellow servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy and I saw the heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sat there on called faithful and true and in righteousness he doth judge and make war and his eyes are a flame of fire and upon his head are many diadems and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself and he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood and his name is called the word of God and the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and pure and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God the almighty and he hath on his garment and on his thighs a name written king of kings and lord of lords and I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven come and be gathered together unto the great supper of God that ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon and the flesh of all men both free and bond and small and great and I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse and against his army and the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshiped his image they too were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse even the sword which came forth out of his mouth and all the birds were filled with their flesh end of chapter 19 chapter 20 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox.org recording by sam stinson by hisfaith.com chapter 20 and i saw an angel coming down out of heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand and he laid whole on the dragon the old serpent which is the devil and satan and bound him for a thousand years and cast him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years should be finished after this he must be loosed for a little time and i saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given unto them and i saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of jesus and for the word of god and such as worshiped not the beast neither his image and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand and they lived and reigned with christ a thousand years the rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished this is the first resurrection blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection over these the second death hath no power but they shall be priests of god and of christ and shall reign with him a thousand years and when the thousand years are finished satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth gog and may gog to gather them together to the war the number of whom is as the sand of the sea and they went up over the breath of the earth encompassed the camp of the saints about and the beloved city and fire came down out of heaven and devoured them and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where are also the beast and the false prophet and they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever and i saw a great white throne in him that sat upon it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them and i saw the dead the great and the small standing before the throne and books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books according to their works and the sea gave up the dead that were in it and death and hades gave up the dead that were in them and they were judged every man according to their works and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death even the lake of fire and if any was not found written in the book of life he was cast into the lake of fire and of chapter 20 chapter 21 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox.org recording by sam stinson by his faith.com chapter 21 and i saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away and the sea is no more and i saw the holy city new jerusalem coming down out of heaven from god made ready as a bride adorned for her husband and i heard a great voice out of the throne saying behold the tabernacle of god is with men and he shall dwell with them and they shall be his peoples and god himself shall be with them and be their god and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes and death shall be no more neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore the first things are passed away and he that sitteth on the throne said behold i make all things new and he saith right for these words are faithful and true and he said unto me they are come to pass i am the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end i will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely he that over cometh shall inherit these things and i will be his god and he shall be my son but for the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death and there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls who were laden with the seven last plagues and he spake with me saying come hither i will show thee the bride the wife of the lamb and he carried me away in the spirit to a mountain great and high and showed me the holy city jerusalem coming down out of heaven from god having the glory of god her light was like unto a stone most precious as it were a jasper stone clearest crystal having a wall great and high having 12 gates and at the gates 12 angels and names written thereon which are the names of the 12 tribes of the children of israel on the east were three gates and on the north three gates and on the south three gates and on the west three gates and the wall of the city had 12 foundations and on them 12 names of the 12 apostles of the lamb and he that spake with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall thereof and the city lieth four square and length thereof is as great as the breadth and he measured the city with the reed 12 000 furlongs the length and breadth and height thereof are equal and he measured the wall thereof 144 cubits according to the measure of a man that is of an angel and the building of the wall thereof was jasper and the city was pure gold like unto pure glass the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones the first foundation was jasper the second sapphire the third chalcedony the fourth emerald the fifth sardonyx the sixth sardius the seventh chrysalite the eighth beryl the ninth topaz the tenth chrysophrase the eleventh jason the twelfth amethyst and the 12 gates were 12 pearls each one of the several gates was of one pearl and the street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass and i saw no temple therein for the lord god the almighty and the lamb are the temple thereof and the city hath no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine upon it for the glory of god did lighten it and the lamp thereof is the lamb and the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it and the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day for there shall be no night there and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean or he that maketh an abomination and a lie but only they that are written in the lamb's book of life end of chapter 21 chapter 22 of the revelation of john american standard version this is a libra vox recording all libra vox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit libra vox dot org recording by sam stinson by his faith dot com chapter 22 and he showed me a river of water of life brightest crystal proceeding out of the throne of god and of the lamb and in the midst of the street thereof and on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruits yielding its fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations and there shall be no curse anymore and the throne of god and of the lamb shall be therein and his servants shall serve him and they shall see his face and his name shall be on their foreheads and there shall be night no more and they need no light of lamp neither light of sun for the lord god shall give them light and they shall reign forever and ever and he said unto me these words are faithful and true and the lord the god of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly come to pass and behold i come quickly blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book and i john am he that heard and saw these things and when i heard and saw i fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed me these things and he saith unto me see thou do it not i am a fellow servant with thee and with thy brethren the prophets and with them that keep the words of this book worship god and he saith unto me seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book for the time is at hand he that is unrighteous let him do unrighteousness still and he that is filthy let him be made filthy still and he that is righteous let him do righteousness still and he that is holy let him be made holy still behold i come quickly and my reward is with me to render to each man according as his work is i am the alpha and the omega the first and the last the beginning and the end blessed are they that wash their robes that they may have the right to come to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city without are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone that loveth and maketh a lie i jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things for the churches i am the root and offspring of david the bright the morning star and the spirit and the bride say come and he that heareth let him say come and he that is a thirst let him come he that will let him take the water of life freely i testify unto every man that here at the words of the prophecy of this book if any man shall add unto them god shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy god shall take away his part from the tree of life and out of the holy city which are written in this book he who testifies these things sayeth yay i come quickly amen come lord jesus the grace of the lord jesus be with the saints amen end of chapter 22 and also the end of the revelation of john and also