The loud voice from heaven was directed to the two resurrected witnesses. That’s evident from the command the loud voice uttered to come up into heaven as well as from the witnesses’ obedience to this command. Yet there can be no doubt that the public gathered on the street of the great city heard the loud voice also. This voice further underscores the accuracy of what the witnesses had said during their allotted season of testifying. All the world’s effort to cancel God is futile, though the nations may try again and again.
12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.