Thinking Thursday

[Rev 11:9-13 ESV] 9 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 

The witnesses are dead.

10 and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 

For the world, this is an event worth celebrating and rejoicing over.

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 them. 

But God.  He breathes the life back into the witnesses and they resurrect.  The world is in shock.

12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 

The witnesses ascend into heaven, their mission complete.

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.

As this happened, God shows His might and power with a great earthquake.