While were on the subject...

 

I hadn't listened to The Temptations in...a good bit, I'll just put it that away and the voice of truth just says...there's some songs of theirs you need to listen to...so I did...

Again...Fits yo...

I

Can turn the gray sky blue

I can make it rain, whenever I want it to, oh I

I can build a castle from a single grain of sand

I can make a ship sail, on dry land tell 'em yeah

But my life is incomplete and I'm so blue

'Cause I can't get next to you

I can't get next to you, babe (next to you)

I can't get next to you (I just can't get next you)

I can't get next to you, babe

I can't get next to you

I

Can fly like a bird in the sky

Hey, and I can buy anything that money can't buy

Oh, I

I can turn a river into a raging fire

I can live forever if I so desired

Unimportant are all the things I can do

'Cause I can't get next to you

I can't get next to you, babe (no matter what I do)

I can't get next to you

Uh-ya

Ooo-ooo

Ooo-ooo

Chica boom, chica boom

Chica boom, boom, boom

I can turn back the hands of time, you better believe I can

I can make the seasons change, just by waving my hand

Oh, I

I can change anything from old to new

The things I want to do the most, I'm unable to do

Unhappy am I with all the powers I possess

'Cause girl you're the key to my happiness

And I

Can't get next to you

Girl, you're blowing my mind 'cause I can't get (next to you)

Can't you see these tears I'm crying? I can't get (next to you)

Girl, it's you that I need, I gotta get (next to you)

Can't you see these tears I'm crying? I can't get (next to you)

I, I, I, I, I can't get (next to you)

I, I, I, I, I can't get (next to you)

Girl, you're blowing my mind

Revelation 11

The Two Witnesses

I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.” If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.

Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

But after the three and a half days the breath[b] of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.

At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.

The Seventh Trumpet

The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:

“The kingdom of the world has become

    the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,

    and he will reign for ever and ever.”

And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:

“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,

    the One who is and who was,

because you have taken your great power

    and have begun to reign.

The nations were angry,

    and your wrath has come.

The time has come for judging the dead,

    and for rewarding your servants the prophets

and your people who revere your name,

    both great and small—

and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.