£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 11 1-14

       WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - Then I (disciple/apostle John) was given a measuring rod like a staff (clue about the “rod of iron” Jesus will rule the nations with after shattering them with it). And I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, 2 but don’t measure the court outside the temple. Leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months”. (Cross reference? - 1Cor.6:19 - “do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit”/Presence of God.. I.e. waiting for a ‘third temple’ in prophecy, could be an error?)

     3 “And I will grant authority to my two witnesses (Rev.7:9,4?) and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” (Poverty, mourning, and has to be during the second half of the lauded treaty that will last only seven years and be broken in the middle against Israel, Dn.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44-which verses prove the “70 weeks” gap between 69 and 70; and w/ 1Cor.3:16. A math problem revealing what?) 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and utterly ruins their foes. If anyone wants and is willing to harm them, thus it is [dei - necessary, inevitable] they will be killed. 6 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may rain during the days of the prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they wish. 7 And when is completed the testimony of them, the beast rising from the bottomless pit (from the abyss of potential that imperfect/straying is) will make war upon them and will conquer them and will kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. (Which was “outside the gate” of Jerusalem, so outside Jerusalem, not solely Jerusalem as Sodom and Egypt.) 9 And will gaze those of the peoples, tribes and tongues, and nations, upon them for three and a half days, not allowing them to be put into tombs/graves. 10 And they will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to them. 11 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up in a cloud, as their enemies watched. 13 And at that hour, there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. (Zech.14:4)

     14 The second woe has passed, behold, the third woe is coming quickly. [The word is tachu - quickly. But translated here and elsewhere as ‘soon’. Which is not quite the same.]