Revelation 11:11-14

After three and a half days. The two witnesses [the Church Militant] is "dead" only a short time. The world is happy too soon! God sends a life-giving breath, and they stand up! The wicked are terribly afraid! Come up here! God honors them by calling them to come up to where he is. They went op into heaven in a cloud. They go up in the same way that their Lord went up (Acts 1:9). A violent earthquake. Symbolic of God's judgment on the wicked. Compare Revelation 6:12-17. CENTRAL IDEA. Revelation 11:7-13 show a continuing cycle of events. Satan himself fights against the church of Christ [through the antichristian world] and destroys it. But after 3? days, God sends a life-giving breath into it. The church seems to die, and is reborn, AGAIN AND AGAIN! The church does not terminate. It is taken up to God and continues to be with him forever, in the eternal Wedding Feast of the Lamb (Revelation 19:7-9), God's purpose in the First Coming of Jesus, is stated in John 3:16-17.