1. Then I was given a measuring reed like a rod, with these words: “Go and measure God’s sanctuary and the altar, and count those who worship there.
2. But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
3. I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, , dressed in sackcloth. ”
4. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
5. If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies; if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
6. These men have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.
7. When they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, conquer them, and kill them.
8. Their dead bodies will lie in the public square of the great city, which prophetically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.