Revelation 11:7-10

⁷ But when they have finished their testimony and their evidence is all in, the beast (monster) that comes up out of the Abyss (bottomless pit) will wage war on them, and conquer them and kill them.

• Jesus Alone holds the keys of death, so the two witnesses will not be allowed to die until our Father says that they are finished. Predestination, so many struggle with it, but it seems that the scriptures tell us about it over and over and over. Our Father is in control of all things.
• Notice that the beast, or the anti-Christ, comes from the Abyss. He is not human. He may look human, act human, or even inhabit a human body, but he is not human.  

⁸ And their dead bodies [will lie exposed] in the open street (a public square) of the great city which is in a spiritual sense called [by the mystical and allegorical names of] Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

• Jerusalem is where these two witnesses will be killed. 

⁹ For three and a half days men from the races and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and will not allow them to be put in a tomb.

• During the Great Tribulation the Word of Truth will be active everywhere.
• And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end. Matthew 24:14
• So when these witnesses are killed the lost will glory in it. Just another example in Revelation of just how powerfully we will be used during the Great Tribulation. 

¹⁰ And those who dwell on the earth will gloat and exult over them and rejoice exceedingly, taking their ease and sending presents [in congratulation] to one another, because these two prophets had been such a vexation and trouble and torment to all the dwellers on the earth.

• The actions of the world shows us just how successfully our Father will use us and how Babylon, or the worlds system, will be effected by what our Father uses us to do during the end times. 
• If the world had lost all of its green grass and a 1/3^rd of the trees had died and a 1/3^rd of the waters were actually destroyed, how would people send gifts to each other? But if these things that we are being shown are all spiritual analogies and the true harm was to peoples souls and not their bodies, then they would be able to send gifts. 
• Think of how the anti-christ and the false prophet will have been preaching against the two witnesses of God. They will have cursed these two witnesses for 3 1/2 years. Through the news and spin doctors the anti-christ and false prophet will try to preach to people that their false religion is right, not what the two witnesses will be preaching. The anti-christ and false prophet will tell people to pray to graven images, and those images will probably be those of Bible figures: Mary, John, Peter, Paul, and others. They will preach that the works that the witnesses do is of the devil, just like the Pharisees and Sadducees did with the works that our Father had Jesus do. So of course when the witnesses are killed the wicked will rejoice, thinking their false doctrine of man is right and that they are the ones who are truly of God.
• Satan is a deceiver and so are the anti-christ and false prophet. Their followers will actually believe they are doing God’s work. Many will be celebrating what they believe is the defeat of the devil when they see these two witnesses killed.