5. If anyone wants to hurt them, fire comes out of the witnesses’ mouths and burns up their enemies. If anyone wants to hurt them, he must be killed the same way.
6. These witnesses have authority to shut the sky in order to keep rain from falling during the time they speak what God has revealed. They have authority to turn water into blood and to strike the earth with any plague as often as they want.
7. When the witnesses finish their testimony, the beast which comes from the bottomless pit will fight them, conquer them, and kill them.
8. Their dead bodies will lie on the street of the important city where their Lord was crucified. The spiritual names of that city are Sodom and Egypt.
9. For 3½ days some members of the people, tribes, languages, and nations will look at the witnesses’ dead bodies and will not allow anyone to bury them.
10. Those living on earth will gloat over the witnesses’ death. They will celebrate and send gifts to each other because these two prophets had tormented those living on earth.
11. After 3½ days the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who watched them.
12. The witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven calling to them, “Come up here.” They went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.
13. At that moment a powerful earthquake struck. One-tenth of the city collapsed, 7,000 people were killed by the earthquake, and the rest were terrified. They gave glory to the God of heaven.
14. The second catastrophe is over. The third catastrophe will soon be here.
15. When the seventh angel blew his trumpet, there were loud voices in heaven, saying,“The kingdom of the world has becomethe kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,and he will rule as king forever and ever.”
16. Then the 24 leaders, who were sitting on their thrones in God’s presence, immediately bowed, worshiped God,