“And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.”
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them — after 1,260 days of testimony, the beast (therion, monster) ascends from the abyss and wages war (polemeo) against the witnesses, conquers, and kills them. The beast's emergence indicates the final intensification of evil; the witnesses' death represents the apparent triumph of evil before God's vindication.
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