Revelation 11:1-14 - The Two Witnesses
1 And I was given a reed like a rod, and told, "Rise up and measure the temple of God and the altar, numbering the worshippers; 2 but omit the court outside the temple, do not measure that, for it has been given over to the Gentiles; and the city will be under their heel for two and forty months. 3 But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth 4 (they are the two olive-trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth): 5 whoever tries to harm them, fire will issue from their mouth and consume their enemies; whoever should try to harm them, so must he be killed." 6 They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose.
7 But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 8 and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt ??where their Lord also was crucified. 9 For three days and a half men from all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations look at their corpses, refusing to let their corpses be buried; 10 and the dwellers on earth will gloat over them and rejoice, sending presents to congratulate one another ??for these two prophets were a torment to the dwellers on earth.
11 But after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered them; they stood on their feet (terror fell on those who saw them) 12 and heard a loud voice from heaven telling them, "Come up here." So up to heaven they went in a cloud, before the eyes of their enemies. 13 At that hour a great earthquake took place, a tenth of the City was destroyed, and seven thousand souls perished in the earthquake: the rest were awestruck, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14 The second woe has passed: the third woe soon is coming.