The witnesses (Ch.11)

This is a key chapter of the book: two witnesses show up, testify, and are killed for it.

They represent the church, identified here as lampstands. Their success comes not through wonders and miracles, as we might hope, but through their dedication to God and their willingness to accept weakness and even death. It is that costly testimony, not any display of power, that leads, in the book’s symbolic numbers, to most of the people turning to God (11:13).