Revelation 11:1-11 ▼

1 And a reed like a staff was given to me, saying, “Rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those worshiping in it.

2 And leave out the courtyard outside the temple, and do not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and they will trample upon the holy city forty and two months.

3 And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the Lord of the earth.

5 And if anyone should want to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone should want to harm them, thus it is necessary for him to be killed.

6 These have the authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they might want.

7 And when they shall have completed their testimony, the beast coming up out of the Abyss will make war with them and will overcome them and will kill them.

8 And their body will be upon the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

9 And those of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations look at their bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their bodies to be put into a tomb.

10 And those dwelling upon the earth rejoice over them and make merry, and they will send gifts to one another because these two prophets tormented those dwelling upon the earth.

11 And after the three and a half days, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon those beholding them.