The (Two Witnesses) will be literal prophets returned, that bring literal plagues upon this literal earth, they have physical bodies that die, that lay in a literal street, as a literal world watches in celebration of their deaths
Pretty close, except they have Glorious bodies that can not be killed unless God allows it. Notice it says they can not be harmed by anyone less that harm comes onto them, THEN it says that Apollyon, the Beast from the bottomless pit kills the Two-witnesses, but why does God all of the sudden allow them to die? Ever think about that? God allows this, which they never really "die die die", if you know what I mean, but God allow them to die even with Glorious bodies but again, WHY? The North star gives us a bearing and likewise THE TIMELINE of the end time is like the North star. Everything is centered around a 1260 Troubles in which both God's Wrath starts AND the Anti-Christ is allowed to go forth conquering, this this 1260 is like the North star for navigation. Hence, God also gives the Two-witnesses AND the Beast both 1260 day Ordained by God "office timelines", the Beast's timeline just so happens to parallel with the Wrath of God (because God planned it that way of course).
Now, if we understand plan English (the bible) we can see the Beast dies when Jesus returns of course, but the Two-witnesses as we know dies at the end of the 2nd Woe, this is God was of giving us a "navigational timeline" if you know what I mean. THIS MANDATES that the Two-witnesses have to show up BEFORE the Beast starts Conquering and JUST BEFORE the Day of the Lord arrives. Does that fit? Yes, we are told in Malachi 4:5-6 that Elijah shows up BEFORE the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord to turn his people back unto God. We also see in Zechariah 13:8-9 that 1/3 of Israel turn back to God and the very next verse (Zechariah 14:1) says the DOTL arrives/cometh, then Jerusalem gets sacked.
Putting all of this together is how I came to understand that the Two-witnesses are the "1335 Blessing". Now we can know (North star navigation like) that the Two-witnesses show up 75 days before the Day of the Lord AND Beast goes forth conquering. Thus we also know the last Woe must last around 75 days because as soon as the Two-witnesses die it says the 3rd Woe comes quickly. They have to die 75 days before the Beast dies so both will have 1260 day Ordained Offices.
Yes, they lay on the streets "as dead" same thing, God allows their glorious bodies to die or just commands their spirit to join Him in heaven for 3.5 days, its semantics on that part. I do not believe they can be killed no more than an Angel can be killed in reality, God just allows it, like I stated, its semantics. I also think they are allowed to die for a specific reason other than the timelines. I do not think there is any Euphrates River that has to "dry up" in order for an end time Army to cross it, I think its a metaphor. It makes no sense, today's armies can cross rivers in a few hours. So what does it really mean? Well, the celebration in the streets sort of gives us a clue. As you stated, the Two-witnesses bring every plague upon mankind, by the time the Second Woe ends billions have been killed by these plagues, the Four Trumps (Apophis Asteroid) and he first two woes kill billions, so as Seal 6 says (which is only a Prophetic Utterance by Jesus about the coming Trump Judgments) these people will be hiding in caves, begging rocks to fall on them, they are at their ends wit, they hate God and his Two-witnesses, so how can Satan, the Anti-Christ and False Prophet ever entice they cowards to COME OUT of their "caves/hiding places" and go to the Meggido site to try and defeat God?
Because God dries up their problem "Their Euphrates River barrier so to speak" which has really been the Two-witnesses who they see physically praying for certain events and these events always come to pass BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, like clockwork. So, God allows them to die, then the first 5 Vials happen, more die, then God DRIES UP THE RIVER (No more Plagues hit for a while) and thus now Satan, the Anti-Christ and False Prophet can entice them into going to Israel to kill the rest of the Jews so that there can never be another "Two-witnesses type situation". In other word God allows the Two-witnesses to die to give us a TIMELINE, and to give the cowards hiding in caves the courage to gather together at Armageddon one last time. Then Jesus returns, you see, it is Gods desire to wipe out every man willing to gather to kill the Jews, the rest seem to be allowed to live, they bring presents to the king of Israel Jesus every year.
The "Golden Oil" represents the "Golden Vials" full of the seven last plagues
Exactly, but I really think it represents the 7 Trumps, of which the 7 Vials is the 3rd Woe, the reason I went this direction was in Rev. 15, many years ago. It says the 7 "Last Plagues" fills up God's Wrath, so in other words all of God's plagues are his wrath, Trumps 1-4 and Woes 1 and 2. Bit I agree the 7 Vials end the plagues of God.
Tell Marty that the Transfiguration proves his theory in error. (SMILE). The Disciples say Moses & Elijah.