11:12
The witnesses were then called up to heaven and their enemies looked on. It says they went up to heaven “in a cloud”, this reminds us of the ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:9). So in all this you can see a parallel with the life of Jesus. He bore witness, powerfully. He was violently opposed and killed. His enemies thought they had won, but Jesus then rose again and ascended to heaven.
11:13,14
There was then an earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed, and seven thousand people died. So we have a serious, but not absolutely catastrophic event (though it was catastrophic for the seven thousand). It was a warning, and it seems that the survivors heeded the warning, at least to some extent. For they gave glory to God. This means they attributed the actions to God. This was the end of the second woe, with the third about to follow.
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