When are the two witnesses resurrected and ascended?
The two witnesses are resurrected and ascended at the midpoint of the seven-year tribulation. This occurs probably within a matter of 72 hours or three or four days, coinciding with the sixth seal, the great earthquake, and the onset of the day of His wrath.
Les explains that the two witnesses are resurrected and ascended at the midpoint of the seven years, probably within a matter of 72 hours or three or four days. He places this at the sixth seal, when a great earthquake occurs and the sun becomes black as sackcloth and the moon as blood due to cataclysmic events like earthquakes and probably volcanoes. He notes the first three and a half years are not a Sunday school picnic or utopia; the Antichrist may seem in control for only a few months, but war, invasion in Israel, famine, and related troubles crescendo. At the midpoint comes the specific earthquake, then verse 17 announces the day of His wrath has come, beginning the last three and a half years.