And a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, saying, ‘Rise and measure God’s temple and the altar and the worshipers in it, but exclude the courtyard outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty two months.’

‘And I will give my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.’

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing in front of the earth’s Lord. And if anyone desires to injure them, fire will come from their mouth and devour their enemies. And if anyone desires to injure them, he must be killed this way. These have the authority to shut the sky so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they desire.

And when they have completed their witness, the wild animal rising from the abyss will make war with them, and will conquer them and kill them. And their body will be on the street of the great city that is pneumatically called Sodom and Egypt (where their Lord was also crucified). And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will look at their bodies for three and a half days, and they will not allow their bodies to be placed in a tomb. And those dwelling on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate and send gifts to each other, because these two prophets tortured the ones who dwell on the earth.

And after the three and a half days, a pneuma of life from God went into them, and they stood on their feet. And a terrible fear fell on those looking at them. And they heard a loud voice from the sky, saying to them, ‘Ascend here.’ And they ascended to the sky in a cloud, and their enemies looked at them. And in that hour there was a massive earthquake and a tenth of the city fell, and the names of seven thousand men were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the god of the sky.