Revelation 11:12 Revelation 11:12 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. The two prophetical witnesses being now raised and spirited for the work of the Lord, are called up into an high place and condition; which calling is, 1. By a great voice from Heaven, which they heard. 2. By that which the voice said unto them, Come up hither 3. By their ready and willing obedience unto that heavenly call; And they ascended up in a cloud 4. By their spectators; and their Enemies beheld them. This voice from Heaven is the voice of the Lord, who spake from Heaven, to his servants the prophets, in divers manners \ and he spake to his apostles in visions \ The Lord spake to his people of old by the voice of his prophets \ and here the Lord speaks to his raised witnesses, by the voice of the remnant of the woman’ s seed \ which kept the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ, all the time that these two witnesses were slain, and lay dead, and dispirited: who being gathered and congregated together, and having among them at this time an eminent spirit of prophecy (which is the testimony of Jesus) \ do call those raised witnesses, into whom the spirit of life from God was entered; saying unto them, Come up hither. Come and join with us in the Church of God; come and worship God with us; come and help us to carry on the work of the Lord in his churches of saints, according to his Holy Word. When the witnesses of Christ are killed and dispirited, and lie slain under deadness of spirit, there will be even then a remnant of the woman’ s seed, which will keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus. And they ascended up into Heaven in a cloud. By Heaven in this verse, we may understand the holy, spiritual, and glorious state of the Church of God here on earth in the latter days, prophesied of \ which shall be in the time of Christ’ s Kingdom on earth, when the Church of God shall be again like a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars \ even when the new Jerusalem shall come down from God, out of Heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband. \ This cloud is a cloud of testimony; and therefore were those former believers (and martyrs of Jesus) \ called a cloud of witnesses. \ This cloud may also bear some allusion to Christ’ s transfiguration \ or rather to his ascension. \ For the spirit of life from God entering into them, did not only transform them more and more into the image of Christ, but did also raise them into an higher and more heavenly frame of spirit, than they had attained unto before they were killed; in which respect they are said to stand upon their feet, as is prophesied the people of the Jews shall, at the time of their mystical resurrection Ezekiel 37:3-14 compared with Romans 11:15; Isaiah 60:2-11. And their enemies beheld them. The witnesses enemies are the Roman anti-Christian monarchy; the beast that killed them, mystical-Babylon; the great Whore and her daughters, those harlots, which are false churches; and the false prophet, those priests, Jesuits, false teachers, seducers, and all those adversaries, that rejoiced at the death of the witnesses, and made merry, and sent gifts one to another. \ Those enemies shall behold with amazement, fear, and horror, these two prophetical witnesses, when they shall ascend up to Heaven; that is, when they shall be honoured, exalted, and dignified in the glorious state of the Church of God on earth.