Terrifying visions of the Apocalypse revealed the fears of medieval Spain - Gallery II

The beast of hell, which rises from the bottomless pit

God takes his two witnesses up into a cloud, while sinners are destroyed in an earthquake.

Revelation 11: “‘And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days’ . . . 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 . . . The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts . . . But after the three and a half days the breath 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.”