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Revelation 11 Bible study: My two witnesses

In the elders' words, the nations' anger and God's wrath stand side by side: "The nations were angry, and your wrath came" (11:18).

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“saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and reigned.”
Revelation 11:17 · World English Bible

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“In Revelation 11:6, the two witnesses have power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain.”

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What's really going on

A reed like a rod

In the text

John says, "A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it." (11:1) "Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months." (11:2). The words that begin "Rise and measure" (11:1) run on to the end of 11:3. These notes give the temple, the altar, those who worship in it, the court outside, the nations and the holy city as the WEB has them, explain them no further than the verses' own words, and set no other verse beside them. They give "forty-two months" (11:2) as the verse has it, and don't reckon it, turn it into any other number, or set it beside any other time. They identify nothing in this chapter with any person, people, power, place, building, nation or event, give no time for anything in it, and apply none of it to anyone, then or now.

Where the Old Testament leads here

He will reign forever

Interpretation

Exodus 15:18leads toRevelation 11:15

The song ends, "The LORD will reign forever and ever" (15:18). Before Jesus is born, the angel tells Mary that her son "will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom" (Luke 1:33). In Revelation, loud voices in heaven say, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!" (Revelation 11:15). Neither passage cites Exodus 15, so this is a reading: some hear the song's last line answered in these verses; others read them as the New Testament's own words about God's kingdom.

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The Greek word behind it

ἐλαίαelaiasay el-AH-yah

Strong's: "an olive (the tree or the fruit)". "These are the two olive trees" (11:4): behind olive trees is this one noun. Revelation has it only here (counted in RP2018, and in all eight editions TAGNT compares).

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Revelation 11 Bible study questions

  1. 1"The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God’s throne, fell on their faces and worshiped God" (11:16). They sit on thrones, and they fall on their faces. What do you find hardest to lay down when you come to worship God?
  2. 2"those who fear your name" (11:18). What do you think it looks like to fear God's name in an ordinary week?
  3. 3The two witnesses are "standing before the Lord of the earth" (11:4). What would change in your day if you remembered that you live it before the Lord of the earth?

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Last reviewed October 12, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home