Shalom, veteran, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Actually, it's very simple. Based on the context surrounding these two prophets, they are VERY hated! People will be trying to kill them and get killed themselves by the very same method by which they attacked them! Furthermore, they were the supposed source of the plagues that they were exacting on the people. They will be GLAD to see them dead!
Revelation 11:3-14
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
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.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 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.
KJV
Because they are such a "thorn in everyone's side," the people will actually CELEBRATE when the two are finally killed! Also, Jewish law states that a person is not declared dead until the third day to be sure they haven't just swooned or gone into some necroleptic state from which they could recover. It's the same reason why embalming in our country is delayed. There are horror stories of real people with necrolepsy who have awakened, screaming from the pain before they really died, finding themselves pumped full of embalming fluid!
