olive trees” (11:4) of Zechariah’s vision, by which the prophet meant the priestly Joshua and kingly Zerubbabel (Zechariah 4:1-14), with the activity of Elijah and Moses, who “shut the sky, so that no rain may fall” and turned water into blood (Revelation 11:6; 2 Kings 1:10; Exodus 7:17, 19). When the two witnesses “have finished their testimony,” they are attacked and killed by the beast from the bottomless pit (Revelation 11:7; see Revelation chapters 13 and 17). Their witness and martyrdom take place