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. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall
prophecy a thousand two hundred and three score days, clothed in
sackcloth" (chap. 11:1-3).

It is clear that two powers in the Christian era are here represented,
the one continuing "forty and two months" and the other twelve hundred
and sixty days, or years, heretofore explained as measuring the length
of the beast's reign, also of the woman's seclusion in the wilderness.
This similarity naturally suggests that we have here the same general
facts set forth under other symbols. Jerusalem, the holy city, the
temple, and the two witnesses therefore correspond to the woman of
chapter 12. The crowd of uncircumcised Gentiles and their profanation
of the city of God for twelve hundred and sixty years correspond to
the beast-power of chapter 13.

Wonderful truth is represented in the vision of this chapter. The
symbols are drawn from Old Testament history, from the religious life
of the Jews--God's chosen people in contrast with the uncircumcised
Gentiles. It is evident, therefore, that the true church and the false
church of the gospel era are represented.

Notice carefully the symbols: holy city, temple, altar, worshipers,
and living witnesses, or prophets. These represent the sum and
substance of all divine revelation in the Mosaic age: holy city,
Jerusalem--_the place where God set his name_; the temple--_divinely
authorised, holy, acceptable worship_ based on careful adherence to
God's commandments formerly given; the altar--_the great symbol of
atonement, the reconciliation of humanity with the divinity_;
the worshipers in one temple--_all of God's people in unity_; the
prophets--_the divinely commissioned representatives of God bearing
a living message for the people of their time_. These conditions
represent the Judaic ideal. Whether they were ever able to reach their
ideal or not, it is evident that the Jews had the conception of a
unified, holy, acceptable service (see Isa. 4:3; 52:1; 62:1-7). The
two witnesses referred to are clearly represented as prophets; for
the work ascribed to them as attesting their divine commission is a
repetition of the miraculous works of Moses and Elijah by which
they established their claims to be prophetic leaders authorized by
Jehovah. The witnesses seem to be distingui