REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Five - The Witnesses Are Killed - Continue

 From 1014 to 1918 te nations were occupied with the first world war. Nationalistic feelings ran high, and in the spring of 1918, the religiouos enemies of the two witnesses took advantage of the situaton. They maneuvered the State's legal apparatus so that resonsible ministers of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society were imprisioned on false charges of sedition.  Faithful coworkers were stunned.  Kingdom activity almost ceased. It was although the preaching work were dead.  In Bible times   it was  a terrible indignity not to be  interred in a memorial tomb.  (Psalm 70:1-3; 1Kings 13:21, 22)  Therefore, great reproach would attach to leaving the two witnesses  unburied. In the hot Palestinian climate, a corpse in the open  stree would really start to smell after three and half literal days.  (Compare John 11: 39.)   This detail in the prophecy thus indicates the shame that the two witnesses had  to endure.  Those mentioned above who were imprisoned were even denied bail while their cases were on appeal.  They were exposed publicly long enough to become a stench to the inhabitants of "the city." But what was this "great city"? 

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