Rev 6:9  The fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, for the testimony they held: They cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? It was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their brethren, should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Q 125.  When will the time occur for those with the testimony of God to be persecuted and possibly killed?

Once the end time is well underway, which will be more than obvious once it has started, the real battle for many of the Saints is with the beast. His empire is the ‘state’ and the Church will be standing against him, by default they will become ‘enemies of the state’. He is saying he is god, the Church says he is possessed by Satan and should not be believed or followed. That conflict and the adulation the public have for the beast will see the Church being pursued to the last man, woman and child.
The time to denounce the beast begins before the beast comes on the scene. The fact that the Church ‘got it right’, (all the details in advance) will only make matters worse for them.

Mark 13:9  But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Q 101.  When will the saints be hated and beaten but have to endure to the end?

As above repeated here: Once the end time is well underway, which will be more than obvious once it has started, the real battle is with the beast. His empire is the ‘state’ and the Church will be standing by default against him becoming ‘enemies of the state’. He is saying he is god, the Church says he is possessed by Satan and should not be believed or followed. That conflict and the adulation the public have for the beast will see the Church being pursued to the last man woman and child.
The time to denounce the beast begins well before the beast comes on the scene. The fact that the Church ‘got it right’, (all the details in advance) will only make matters worse for them.
 Once they make a stand against the beast, there is no going back. This will last for almost three years before the resurrection.

Matt 24:9  Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. Then shall many be offended, betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Q 93.  When will the saints be hated and many others offended (by the truth)?

As above. The real reason the Church is so hated at this time is because it is so obvious they are right. People get very angry when shown to be wrong yet still refusing to accept what they know they should do. In the areas under control by the beast no food or any other day-to-day necessities are available without being a follower of the beast. (Complying with the state regulations).
That for most people makes the choice very one sided and all the more difficult to ‘do what is right’.

Matt 10:17  But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. Take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father.
Q 86.  When will the saints be brought before ‘councils’ as a witness?

From the moment it can determined beyond doubt that Christ is about to return i.e. the day of the Lord has officially begun, the Church (in this case defined as those that were ‘ready’) will be proclaiming very unpopular messages. For whole nations to be told they have no option to not only believe in God but obey Him implicitly as well ‘or else’ is not a popular message. Nonetheless that message must be broadcast. God has determined that the best way to bring it to a head is in the ‘courts’. That will ensure the maximum publicity.
For 'from the moment it can be determined' See: The Gospel to All the World

Matt 10:22   And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Q 87.  When will the saints be hated and fleeing from city to city?

The moment the gospel goes to the entire world, (Rev 14:6, Joel 2:28, Acts 2:16) God’s people will know for a certainty that Christ is about to return, i.e. the ‘day of the Lord’ has officially started. That technically is when the cry goes up ‘the Lord cometh’. From this moment on various stages of activity will develop. First will come the warning that Babylon is about to fall; the nations of Israel that comprise the house of Joseph (including Judah) will fall. From the start that will not be popular. Telling your own nation they have been a ‘stench up God’s nose’ will not go down too well. Telling them in addition they will have to endure seven years of captivity from which there will be few survivors will cause them to be treated as Jeremiah was; which was being thrown in a ‘cesspit’. All of this is just the start. However, the object is not to upset people or insult them but to turn them back to God, which is their only hope for survival.
The interesting point in this chapter of Matthew is that it is qualified as being applicable right up to the day Christ returns: ‘till the Son of man be come’. Working out the demarcation point in both this chapter and Luke 10 and other portions of the New Testament is the interesting part. Is the command to raise the dead and heal the sick still valid today? This will be studied in an article in conjunction with Come Out of Babylon. See:  Who Is Babylon

Luke 21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
Q 105.  ‘Before all these’ (wars, pestilences great signs) they shall lay hands on you, when will this start?

Rev 17:6  I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Q 170.  In the end time, when will the scarlet woman persecute the saints?

After the initial message that Christ is returning and all nations must turn to Christ (which is unpopular enough), the Church will be also warning that the beast and the false prophet will rise.
Approximately six to seven months after the gospel goes to the world Babylon falls, the beast and false prophet do indeed rise as foretold, and from then on it will be a full-scale confrontation between the Saints and the false religion. The point is the Church has a duty to warn and protect as many as possible from the deceptions of Satan. Many ‘Christians’ will not rise to this challenge. The end time is not a matter of ‘what God can do for you, but what the Church will be required to do for God’. This is part of what will determine who the true Saints are. See: Come out of Babylon

Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
Q 157.  When does the persecution of the saints begin?

(Answer repeated from Q.170) After the initial message that Christ is returning and all nations must turn to Christ (which is unpopular enough) next the Church will be warning that the beast and the false prophet will rise.
Approximately six to seven months after the gospel goes to the world Babylon falls, the beast and false prophet do indeed rise as foretold and from then on it will be a full-scale confrontation between the Saints and the false religion. The point is the Church has a duty to warn and protect as many as possible from the deceptions of Satan. Many ‘Christians’ will not rise to this challenge. The end time is not a matter of ‘what God can do for you, but what the Church will be required to do for God’. This is part of what will determine who the true Saints are.  See: Come Out of Babylon

Rev 20:6   Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Q 191. When does the first resurrection take place?

The short answer is at the sixth seal, when the moon fails to give its light and the sun is darkened etc. in Matt 24:29  and Luke 21:25. In those verses it states the angels shall gather the elect from one end of heaven to the other accompanied by the long trumpet sound. The identical event is described in Rev 6 as the sixth seal.
For a full explanation See: When Is The Resurrection  (See: Charts also).

1 Cor 15:51  Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Q 111.  When will the trumpet sound and the first resurrection take place?

(Short answer: at the sixth seal). The ‘trumpet’ being referred to is mentioned in a number of places. Even as far back as Exodus 19 we see the pattern of the ‘trumpet sounding long’ and God’s people ‘going up the mountain’ then continuing the account in Ch. 24 the ‘sea of Glass’ (God’s throne) coming down to meet them.
…when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. Ex 19:13
Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.  Ex 24:9
This is the theme in Heb 12:22 where it is explained instead of the pattern we are preparing for the real thing; which will still nevertheless follow the ‘pattern’.
See:  When Is The Resurrection  for full details.

1 Cor 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Q 110.  When is the first resurrection?

The really technical answer is the first resurrection was Christ Himself. He was the ‘first’ of the first fruits. What we are referring to is the balance of the first fruits. Their resurrection is at the sixth seal. This is what is meant by the first resurrection. There are other resurrections; one is mentioned occurring a thousand years later at the end of the millennium.
…they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.  Rev 20:4 The ‘first resurrection of course referring to the ‘first’ group mentioned that lived and reigned with Christ.
The first resurrection is also referred to as the ‘better’ resurrection for obvious reasons.
… and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:   Heb 11:35
Full details for the first resurrection See: When is the Resurrection

Heb 12:22   But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn.
Q 119  When is the resurrection of the Church of the firstborn?

The Church of the firstborn refers to the first resurrection of the ‘firstfruits’ or the first ‘harvest’ of resurrected beings. This occurs at the sixth seal. (See: Charts )
Full details See: When Is the Resurrection

Matt 24:29   Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, (stars fall, heaven shaken, sign of Son of man, all tribes of man mourn, Son in great glory) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Q 97.  When will the gathering of the elect (resurrection) from the four winds occur?

The gathering of the ‘elect’ occurs at the sixth seal. Compare the Matt 24:29 verse with Rev 6:12 to see they are the same event that is defined as the sixth seal.

John 14:2   In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Q 108.  When does Christ come again to receive the saints?

Christ ‘comes again’, this time to gather the saints at the sixth seal.
Of interest is the description here for what is also described as the ‘sea of glass’ elsewhere. In Exodus 24:9 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. In Rev 4:6 and Rev 15:2
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.  Rev 15:2
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.   Rev 4:6

Full details See: When Is the Resurrection

1 Thess 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.
Q 113.  When will the trumpet sound and the first resurrection occur?

The resurrection takes place at the sixth seal. Matt 24:29 mentions the loud trumpet call, Rev 6:12 lists the details of the sixth seal and they are identical to the events listed in Matt 24:29 when the elect are gathered from the four winds.
For a full explanation See: When is the Resurrection

Rev 14:15  Another angel came out of the temple, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Q 158.  When is this first of two reapings?

Most commentaries discuss three angels being active in Rev 14. There are five. The one in question here is the fourth one. This section of scripture is one of the chronological timelines of the day of the Lord. The first angel has the job of proclaiming the gospel to the world. The second one announces the fall of Babylon. The third warns that next the mark of the beast will follow which must be avoided. The next event is a reaping. Not much more information is given. However the fifth angel is also conducting a ‘reaping’ but this time it is distinctly a harvest of worthless material fit only for eradication. The second harvest or reaping of the fifth angel goes into the ‘winepress of the wrath of God’. By contrast the earlier one is recorded as a normal reaping, an actual harvest, it was ‘ripe’, fit for reaping to gather a crop.
When we take the overall circumstances or outline of events of the end time and compare them to this timeline of Rev 14 we find a simple consistency. First the gospel goes to the entire world, which is consistent with all scriptures. This is however the first seal which is Christ stepping back onto the stage depicted by the rider on the white horse going forth to conquer. Next is the first ‘physical’ event: the fall of Babylon. This causes a very fast reorganisation of political balances and the beast power emerges as the winner. His ‘mark’ must not be taken. Now we are left with the two ‘reapings’. The last one is similar in wording found in Joel 3:13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.  That corresponds to Armageddon without any difficulty.
Now for the earlier reaping of the fourth angel. Since the resurrection occurs at the mid point of the end time, the sixth seal, this ‘reaping’ corresponds perfectly with the resurrection taking place well before Armageddon.
See:  When is the Resurrection

Ephesians 5:31  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Q 112.  When will the marriage of the Lamb take place?

The resurrection takes place at the sixth seal. The resurrected Saints are on the sea of glass (God’s throne) for the next three and a half years until Christ with all the resurrected Church including the list of bible heroes in Heb 11 return to establish the final kingdom of God. Pointing to exactly when the ‘marriage’ takes place during this time is bound up in complicated patterns laid down in the fine print of instructions concerning the Holy Days. These all have significance for the future. The following is a compilation of answers given for Q 129 and 138:

“At the sixth seal the resurrection occurs. The seventh seal goes ‘on hold’ for a short while. Is this a reflection on the appalling events about to unfold or is it because those on the ‘sea of glass’ have other things on their mind? It is not clear exactly when the ‘wedding’ takes place but it is between the resurrection and the return of Christ with the saints in three and a half years time. In Revelation 10 the seventh angel (the one in charge of the other seven trumpet angels that make up the seventh seal) is waiting until the ‘mystery of God should be finished’.
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. Rev 10:7
In Ephesians 5 we have the mystery defined as a ‘wedding’ between Christ and the Church.
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.  Eph 5:32
This looks as if the wedding is taking place before the seventh seal gets underway.

The seventh seal is the great tribulation, the last three and a half years. This seal is made up of seven subdivisions that are also seven angels each blowing a trumpet. The angel in charge of the seven gives the order to begin ‘when the mystery of God is finished’. That would appear to be an allusion to Eph 5:32 where marriage is being discussed as the ‘mystery’: This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. The wedding on the ‘sea of glass’?

Rev 15:2  I saw another sign in heaven,  seven angels having the seven last plagues; in them is the wrath of God. I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Q 160.  Before the seven last plagues are trumpeted, those who had gotten victory over the beast were on the sea of glass. When is this?

This is the sixth seal at the mid point of the end time.
See:  The Sixth Seal   When is The Resurrection

Luke 21:25   There shall be signs in the sun, in the moon, in the stars; distress of nations, perplexity; the sea and waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things come to pass, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.
Q 107.  When will the ‘redemption’ take place?

The ‘redemption’, the taking back to God what is His is the resurrection. This occurs at the sixth seal. See:  The Sixth Seal   When is The Resurrection

Rev 12:6  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Q 144.  When does the Church go to the ‘wilderness’ for three and a half years?

The Church ‘goes’ when it is resurrected. It goes to the sea of glass; God’s throne. The question here is how do we equate a ‘wilderness’ with God’s throne. Wilderness here does not mean some deserted place on earth. There are several examples where ‘wilderness’ is not a desert. John receiving his vision for the book of Revelation is one example.  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.  Rev 17:3 The wilderness here is somewhere in John’s mind. Another example of wilderness not being a hostile environment is in Hosea:

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.  15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.  
Here we are at the point in time when both Israel and Judah finally accept Christ with no further thoughts of resistance. In this passage the ‘wilderness’ is a place of comfort and solace, much needed after the seven years of the end time.

This is the new covenant in Heb 8 taking place shortly after Christ arrives as seen in the verses just before the above:
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.  11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.    Hos 1:10
The ‘one head’ is ultimately Christ and the day of Jezreel is the end time in general, Armageddon specifically.
Back to the Rev 12:6 verse, ‘wilderness’: Vine’s says it is an adjective and that it is often used as a noun and eremos when used properly as an adjective denotes persons “deserted, desolate or deprived of friends and kindred.” The Saints certainly have been separated from all their old contacts when they arrive on the sea of glass. They will come back later.

Rev 14:1  A Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. 4 These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Q 153.  When is this first fruit harvest redeemed from the earth?

153   The ‘first fruits’, the participants of the first resurrection are ‘redeemed’ (gathered) at the sixth seal.  See: When Is the Resurrection

Rev 12:14  And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Q 147.  When does the ‘woman’ ‘fly into the wilderness’ for three and a half years protected from the serpent?

The answer to this is essentially the same as for Q 144 so is repeated here: The Church ‘goes’ when it is resurrected. It goes to the sea of glass, God’s throne. The question here is how do we equate a ‘wilderness’ with God’s throne. Wilderness here does not mean some deserted place on earth. There are several examples where ‘wilderness’ is not a desert. John receiving his vision for the book of Revelation is one example.  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.  Rev 17:3 The wilderness here is somewhere in John’s mind. Another example of wilderness not being a hostile environment is in Hosea:

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.  15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.  
Here we are at the point in time when both Israel and Judah finally accept Christ with no further thoughts of resistance. In this passage the ‘wilderness’ is a place of comfort and solace, much needed after the seven years of the end time.

This is the new covenant in Heb 8 taking place shortly after Christ arrives as seen in the verses just before the above:
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.  11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.    Hos 1:10
The ‘one head’ is ultimately Christ and the day of Jezreel is the end time in general, Armageddon specifically.
Back to the Rev 12:6 verse, ‘wilderness’: Vine’s says it is an adjective and that it is often used as a noun and eremos when used properly as an adjective denotes persons “deserted, desolate or deprived of friends and kindred.” The Saints certainly have been separated from all their old contacts when they arrive on the sea of glass. They will come back later.

Rev 7:3  Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Q 128.  When will the servants of God be ‘sealed’?

128    This expression ‘sealed’ involves a setting apart of certain individuals. Who the 144,000 are is not the subject of this question, the timing is. This occurs just before the seventh seal (the great tribulation) gets underway. This is the resurrection at the sixth seal. 
See:  When Is The Resurrection

Matt 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Q 99.  When will the cry be made: ‘behold, the bridegroom comes’?

Not specifically a resurrection question, however only those that are ‘ready’ when the ‘cry is made, behold the bridegroom cometh’ have a real chance to be in it. That is the lesson of the parable of the wise virgins: Matt 25. Once the very first event of the end time occurs it will be obvious that Christ has stepped back on to the stage and that He will ‘come’ as per the schedule of the day of the Lord. The cry goes up literally on the very first day of the end time.
See: I Come As A Thief   The Rider On The White Horse

Rev 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.
Q 139.  When does the three and a half year mission of the two witnesses begin?

The two witnesses begin their mission three and a half years before the end of the day of the Lord. This can be clearly understood from the timing of their death which is the just before the ‘third woe’. In Rev 11 the two witnesses are killed, resurrected in the site of ‘everyone’, which causes even the followers of the beast to capitulate and worship the God of heaven v 13.

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. 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. 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. 
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Christ returns immediately after the two witnesses are killed. Three and a half years before that the resurrection occurred and the beast was ‘resurrected’ from his fatal wound. Just when he thinks he can get away with saying he is god, along come the two witnesses to show otherwise. If the two witnesses are not literally ‘prophets of old’ resurrected, then it would be a reasonable assumption to see them as being the two most capable people during the first three and a half years when the beast rose to power. They ‘volunteer’ to stay behind.

Rev 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. (v14: the second woe is past; the third woe cometh quickly).
Q 140.  When are the two witnesses killed?

The answer is repeated from Q139: The two witnesses begin their mission three and a half years before the end of the day of the Lord. This can be clearly understood from the timing of their death which is the just before the ‘third woe’. In Rev 11 the two witnesses are killed, resurrected in the site of ‘everyone’, which causes even the followers of the beast to capitulate and worship the God of heaven v 13.

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. 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. 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. 
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Christ returns immediately after the two witnesses are killed.

Rev 11:12-14    A great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud, their enemies beheld them .. the same hour was there a great earthquake .. and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
Q 142.  When do these followers of the beast amend their ways to worship the God of heaven?

In Rev 11 the two witnesses are killed, resurrected in the site of ‘everyone’, which causes even some of the followers of the beast to capitulate and worship the God of heaven v 13.

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. 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. 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. 
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

This is just before Armageddon. Christ returns immediately after the two witnesses are killed.
The whole episode is very similar to what happened with the Prophets of Baal:
1 Kings 18:39
Once Elijah had proved his point they all knew who the real God was.

In Rev 11 the two witnesses are killed, resurrected in the site of ‘everyone’, which causes even some of the followers of the beast to capitulate and worship the God of heaven v 13.

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. 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. 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. 
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

This is just before Armageddon. The next event will be more than a shock to the system.
To reject the ‘proof’ that the two witnesses were able to demonstrate shows the sheer vindictiveness of those that refuse to acknowledge the truth. If they had been there when Christ died they would have been cheering madly.