When do 2 Witnesses die and lay there on ground for 3,5 days?
Do I understand it correctly that 7 year tribulation starts , 2 witnessess are send and they preach untill Middle of the week , then they are overcomed by the Beast who is doing Abomination of Desolation same day and then 3,5 days after they resurrect ?
Are they warning people to not take the Mark of Beast ?
I do not believe the two witnesses refer to actual men. Here's why.
If we look at Revelation 11 is in symbolic language. In verse 2, we see a 42 month prophecy.
Revelation 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
In verse 3, it gives the same prophetic time, but in days.
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Forty two months (30 days per month) is 1260 days. The 1260 day prophecy is actually a 1260 year prophecy, if we use the day for a year principle for prophecy (Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6).
The 1260 year prophecy (Revelation 13:5, Revelation 12:6) took place between 538 AD and 1798 AD, the dark ages. Notice that in verse three (above), we see that the two witnesses are clothed in sackcloth (darkness). The Bible was kept out of the hands of the people and it had to be translated in secret and smuggled to distribute it. There was Christian persecution and millions were killed.
In verse 4 we see two olive trees and two candlesticks.
Revelation 11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Olive trees provide oil (Holy Spirit) for lamps/candlesticks (the word of God, light). We see this in Zechariah 4:1-10 also.
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Given the symbolic language, the two witnesses are the Old and New Testaments—the word of God.
In verse 5 we see that there are consequences to hurting the witnesses.
Revelation 11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Fire represents the Holy Spirit, but also the wrath of God and the lake of fire (Deuteronomy 9:3, Revelation 20:14-15).
Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Symbolic language. Shut heaven, means being cut off from God. Rain being another symbol for the Holy Spirit, but can also mean actual drought (or drought of the Holy Spirit).
Revelation 11:7 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.
Satan waging war against God and His word, which happened in a big way during the French Revolution. The French Revolution having started at the end of the prophesied 1260 years.
Revelation 11:8-10 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Spiritual Sodom and Gomorrah (symbolic). The absence of God. During the French Revolution, God's word was burned in the streets.
Revelation 11:11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
The 3 1/2 days (prophetic years) appear to be the years before the end of the dark ages (1793-1797) and events surrounding the French Revolution, which took place in 1798. In the same year, the deadly wound spoken of in Revelation 13:3 would take place when the Pope Pius VI was taken prisoner by French general Berthier (and would later die). The end to the dark ages and Christian persecution.
God's word, however, came back from persecution stronger than ever and went to the world.
Revelation 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
We see that God's word is elevated; raised to heaven (symbolic).
Revelation 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Earthquakes cause destruction, but can also be used to symbolize change. Big changes did occur surrounding these events. Seven thousand is symbolic and points to God's hand in the changes that took place.
How can we know this is in the past? The 1260 year prophecy. How can we know that Revelation 11 is symbolic? It's describing prophecy, which is symbolic.