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11:1 The two witnesses

11 Then I was given a measuring stick and told, “Go and message God’s temple and the altar and the people who’re worshipping there,[ref] 2 but exclude the outer courtyard. Don’t measure that because it’s been given to the non-Jews, and they’ll tread around the holy city for three and a half years.[ref] 3 Then I’ll give my two witnesses the ability to speak out God’s message for six months, while dressed in mourning garb.

4 Those are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the master of the earth.[ref] 5 If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and burns up their enemies, yes, if anyone wants to harm them then they deserve to be killed. 6 Those witnesses have the power to stop the rain so that it doesn’t rain while they’re speaking out, and they have power to turn rivers and lakes into blood, and to damage the earth with every type of plague just as often as they want.[ref]

7 When the two witnesses have finished speaking out, the beast that comes up from the deep, dark pit will attack them. It’ll overpower them and then kill them.[ref] 8 Their corpses will lie on the road of the great city, which in spiritual terms is called Sodom and/or Egypt—where their master was executed on a stake.[ref] 9 People from every nation and tribe and language will look at their corpses for three and a half days and will prevent their corpses from being put into a tomb. 10 Those who’re living on the earth will be happy about it and celebrate and send gifts to each another because those two prophets had tormented them, 11 but after three and a half days, God’s breath of life will enter into them and they’ll stand up. The people who see that will be terrified.[ref] 12 Then the two witnesses will hear a loud voice from the sky telling them, “Come up here.” Then they’ll go up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watch them go up.[ref] 13 At that same time, there will be a huge earthquake which will cause a tenth of the city to collapse. That’ll kill 7,000 people and the rest will be terrified and will acknowledge the God of heaven.[ref]

14 The second terror has then passed, but the third will be coming soon.

11:1: Exo 40:3; Zech 2:1-2.

11:2: Luk 21:24.

11:4: Zech 4:3,11-14.

11:6: a 1Ki 17:1; b Exo 7:17-19; c 1Sam 4:8.

11:7: a Dan 7:7; Rev 13:5-7; 17:8; b Dan 7:21.

11:8: Isa 1:9-10.

11:11: Eze 37:10.

11:12: 2Ki 2:11.

11:13: Rev 6:12; 16:18.

11 And was _given to _me a_rod similar to_a_staff saying:
Be _raising, and measure the temple of_ the _god, and the altar, and the ones prostrating in it.
2 And the courtyard which outside the temple, throw _out outside and not it you _may _measure, because it _was _given to _the nations, and the city the holy they _will _be _treading forty for _months two.
3 And I _will _be _giving to _the two witnesses of _me, and they _will _be _prophesying for _days two _hundred a_thousand sixty, having _been _clothed in _sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive _trees and the two lampstands, which before the master of _the earth having _stood.
5 And if anyone them is _wanting to _injure, fire is _going _out of the mouth of _them, and is _devouring the enemies of _them.
And if anyone may _want them to _injure, thus it _is _fitting him to _be _killed _off.
6 These are _having the power to _shut the sky, in _order _that no rain may _be _raining in _the days of _the prophecy of _them, and power they _are _having over the waters, to _be _turning them into blood, and to _strike the earth with every plague, as _often _as if they _may _want.
7 And whenever they _may _finish the testimony of _them, the wild _animal which going _up out _of the abyss will _be _making with them war, and will _be _overcoming them, and will _be _killing _off them.
8 And the corpse of _them will _be on the road of _the city the great, which is _being _called spiritually, Sodoma/(Şədom) and Aiguptos/(Miʦərayim), where also the master of _them was _executed _on _a _stake.
9 And they _are _looking of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations, the corpse of _them three for _days and a_half, and the corpses of _them not they _are _allowing to _be _put into a_tomb.
10 And the ones dwelling on the earth are _rejoicing over them, and are _being _gladdened, and gifts they _will _be _sending to _one _another, because these the prophets two tormented the ones dwelling on the earth.
11 And after the three days and a_half, the_spirit of _life from the god came _in into them, and they _stood on the feet of _them, and fear great fell _on on the ones observing them.
12 And they _heard a_voice great out _of the heaven, saying to _them:
Go _up here.
And they _went _up to the sky in the cloud, and observed them the enemies of _them.
13 And in that the hour became an_earthquake great, and the tenth of _the city fell, and were _killed _off in the earthquake, the_names of _people seven thousands, and the rest frightened became, and they _gave glory to _the god of_ the _heaven.
14 The woe the second went _away, see, is _coming the woe the third quickly.

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The two witnesses

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