Revelation 11:1-8

1Then I was given a measuring reed like a rod, with these words: “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who worship there.

2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

3I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”

4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

5If 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.

6They have authority 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.

7When they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war on them, conquer them, and kill them.

8Their dead bodies will lie in the main street of the great city, which figuratively is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.