2 witnesses
Two witnesses are given prophetic ability and spiritual authority. They prophecy to the earth for 1,260 days.
Who are these people? I lean towards that this is an allegorical representation of the general church itself. "Two witnesses" in the Old Testament were required for the establishment of truthful testimony. Here, it seems allegorically used to just mean "truth" is shown. The people can reject it or not.
However, it gets strange because then the two witnesses die, but then are brought back to life. People can try to kill truth, but it cannot die.
Some people interpret these two witnesses as two literal people who will be modern-day Elijahs. For people who believe that, then everyone wants to be one of the "two witnesses".
The seventh trumpet
The seventh trumpet blows and all is accomplished. Jesus returns and judges the dead. The Kingdom of Heaven fully merges into earth.
But yet, we are still only in chapter 11 out of 22. To me, this indicates that these chapters do not indicate a chronological sequence of events.
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