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However, exclude the outer court of the temple from your measurements, because it has been handed over to the Gentiles and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.[a] I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for those twelve hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand in the presence of the Lord of the earth.

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  1. Revelation 11:2 Forty-two months . . . twelve hundred and sixty days . . . three and a half days . . . a year, two years, and a half year (12:14): symbolic durations, designating typical periods of persecution according to Dan 7:25.

But exclude the outer court;(A) do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles.(B) They will trample on the holy city(C) for 42 months.(D) And I will appoint my two witnesses,(E) and they will prophesy for 1,260 days,(F) clothed in sackcloth.”(G) They are “the two olive trees”(H) and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”[a](I)

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  1. Revelation 11:4 See Zech. 4:3,11,14.