Revelation 11:9

shall see Read, see: and so "suffer not" … "rejoice … and make merry," but "shall send." The presents seem to make the transition from the prophecy to the narrative a little easier.

three days and a half Should probably be " the three &c." The halfday lends a certain support to the "year-day" hypothesis that 3½ years are meant. But the traditional explanation takes the days literally they rise, not on the third day like their Lord, but on the fourth being like Him, though not equal to Him. Whether the periodsnamed are to be taken literally or no, there seems no reason why we should not follow the traditional view, and understand this chapter as foretelling a sign which shall literally come to pass in the last days. The prophets Moses and Elijah will appear upon earth or at the least two prophets will arise in their "spirit and power:" the scene of their prophecy will be Jerusalem, which will then be re-occupied by the Jewish nation. Antichrist (under whose patronage, it is believed, the restoration of the Jews will have taken place) will raise persecution against them, and kill them: but they will rise from the dead, and then, and not till then, the heart of Israel will turn to the Lord.