11:7 And when they shall have
finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit
shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street
of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our
Lord was crucified.
The beast that ascended out of
Hell will overcome these witnesses and kill them. This will not happen until
the witnesses have finished their work. This gives us a hint of the identity of
the angel that is the king over the bottomless pit.
Revelation 9:11 And they had a
king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the
Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Remember, he is the destroyer. No
other beast, a term that elsewhere in the Revelation refers to an animal-like
creature like the cherubim or living creatures around the throne of God, of
evil has appeared yet other than the one from the bottomless pit.
The city referred to, the locus of
the witnesses’ activities, is Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also
in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk
in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return
from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants
thereof as Gomorrah.
Or, is this the city on seven
hills that is coming up in Revelation 17? We will discuss that more when we get
there but Jerusalem has also been identified as existing on seven hills as Rome
has.[1]
The question is, will the last world kingdom of significance in these events be
centered in Rome, as in the Vatican, or in Jerusalem, as in a powerful Middle
Eastern entity, even secular Israel today, which is the most powerful nation in
the region? Any attack on Israel today by united Islamic nations surrounding it
would be like a bunch of midgets attacking a giant. I have read, but cannot
cite, that Israel has an extensive nuclear weapons stockpile. Wherever the
antichrist of Revelation would rule from, Rome or Jerusalem would work, but
which will work better we will discuss later.
11:9 And they of the people and
kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an
half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall
rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because
these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Social media or some future
version of that technology will show their bodies to the world. People are refusing
to bury them, probably even to touch them for fear. It will be a time of
rejoicing. My thinking is that they will have caused a great many catastrophes
we will read about next and a lost world will be so relieved when they are
“gone.”
[1] Ernest L. Martin, “The Seven Hills
of Jerusalem,” on Associates for Scriptural Knowledge, http://askelm.com/prophecy/p000201.htm. (updated February 1, 2000).
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