This explores the fate of the holy city, the mission of two powerful witnesses, and the announcement of the seventh trumpet, which signifies the dominion of God’s kingdom over the world. The text is a riveting testament of divine authority, judgment, and hope for the ultimate triumph of good over evil.
It reads in Revelation 11:1-6 Easy:
Someone gave me a stick, like the sticks that people use to measure things. He told me, ‘Go and measure the size of the temple and the altar. Also count the number of people who worship God there. But do not measure the yard that is outside God’s house. Do not measure it, because God has given that yard to Gentiles who do not believe in him. They will stamp all over God’s own city for 42 months and they will destroy it. I will give authority to my two servants who speak my message clearly. They will tell people my messages for 1,260 days. They will wear rough clothes made from goats’ hair.’ These servants are the two olive trees and the two lampstands. They stand in front of God who is the Lord of the earth. If anyone tries to hurt them, fire comes out of the servants’ mouths. This fire destroys their enemies. Anyone who wants to hurt the two servants must die in this way. These servants of God have authority to shut up the sky. Then there will be no rain during the time that they tell their messages from God. They also have authority to cause the water on earth to become blood. They can cause many different kinds of trouble to happen on the earth. They can do this as often as they want to.
Father God, I thank You and praise You for Your word has told us the end from the beginning and that evil will one day be entirely put away. I thank You for sending Jesus to be the atonement for our sins, freeing us from eternal damnation, and clothing us in His perfect righteousness. I praise You and thank You that sin, death, Satan, and hell, will one day be completely thrown into the eternal lake of fire and Jesus will put all things under His feet. Make me a faithful witness in the position where You have placed me and continue to work the works of God, during my life on earth. I thank You and praise You Jesus left the Holy Spirit to abide in all believers. The Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, will empower God’s two witnesses during the Great Tribulation. And this is the same Holy Spirit that indwells us: “Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.” I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.