For it is given ALSO unto the Gentiles.—With the deliverance of the Little Flock, the condition represented by the “Holy” ceases. This leaves the Great Company still in the “Court” and the special objects of Gentile wrath as their kingdoms fall into ruin. “Being denied the liberty accorded to the Priests, these will have merely the standing of justification, which, if they maintain, will constitute them worthy of eternal life. But that life will not be human life, because they gave that up in order to become Priests. Their failure puts them out of the Holy condition back into the Court condition.” (Z. ’11‐22.) “After the establishment of Messiah’s Kingdom, this distinction between the Church proper, joint‐heirs with Christ, and the larger company of antitypical Levites, will be perpetual, and the services of the two will be different. The former will be a Priesthood corresponding to that of Melchizedek—a Priest upon His Throne. The work of the latter will correspond more to that accomplished by the Levites; namely, teaching the people, etc., as servants of the Priests, from whom they will receive their directions.”—Z. ’14‐79. And the Holy City.—The embryo Kingdom of God. Shall they tread under foot.—“The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”—Matt. 11:12. Forty and two months.—1260 years from papacy’s establishment as a temporal power, 539 A. D. to 1799 A. D.—B. 91, 310; C. 50, 64; Dan. 7:25; 12:7; Rev. 12:6, 14; 13:5; Jas. 5:17. 11:3. And I will give power unto My Two Witnesses.—“The Lord refers to the Old and New Testament Scriptures, and faithfully they have borne their testimony to every nation.”—D. 258. And they shall prophesy.—Teach. A thousand, two hundred and three score days.—1260 years, from A. D. 539 to 1799. Clothed in sackcloth.—“Kept covered in dead languages.”—C. 50. 11:4. These are the Two Olive Trees.—Sources of the oil, the holy Spirit.—Zech. 4:1‐6; Rom. 11:17. And the Two Candlesticks.—“The _light_ of the world, during all the darkness of the past.”—D. 652. Standing before the [God] LORD of the earth.—Jehovah. “The earth is the Lord’s.”—Psa. 24:1. 11:5. And if any man will hurt them.—“And if any man _desireth_ to hurt them. The present tense here points to the continued enmity of the world to the Church, during the entire course of the Witnesses’ testimony.”—Cook. Fire proceedeth out of their mouth.—“I will make My words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.”—Jer. 5:14. And devoureth their enemies.—“History supplies the illustrations—the fire that consumed the opponents of Moses (Num. 16:28, 35), and that which came down at the word of Elijah. (2 Kings 1:10, 12)”—Cook. And if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.—“Therefore have I hewed them by the Prophets; and I have slain them by the words of My mouth.”—Hos. 6:5. 11:6. These have power to shut heaven.—The literal heavens and the spiritual heavens.—1 Ki. 17:1.