This will require wisdom and careful thought: Anyone who can solve puzzles should figure out what the beast’s number means. It’s the number of a man, and that number is 666.
Then I saw something that looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire. Those who had won the battle over the beast were standing next to the sea. They had also overcome the beast’s statue and the number of its name. They held harps that God had given them,
The angel measured the city with the rod, and he found that it was 1,400 miles long and that it was as wide and high as it was long. The angel measured the thickness of the wall and found that it was more than 200 feet thick, according to human measurements.
Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy out loud, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart everything it says. The time when these things will come true is drawing near.
“You’ll see ‘the detestable thing that brings desolation’ standing where it doesn’t belong.” (Let the one who reads this be sure to understand.) “Then those who are in Judea should escape to the mountains.
But some people might be thinking about this in a human way and ask, “Doesn’t the fact that we’re wrong prove more clearly that God is right? So how is it fair for God to punish us?”