What does Revelation 11:11 mean?

In contrast to the glee felt when the two witnesses are killed, there comes a rude awakening: terror and dread, and one would assume surprise, shock, and dismay. These emotions will wash over unbelievers just three and a half days after the beast kills the two witnesses. Just as God breathed the breath of life into Adam's lifeless body after creating him, so God breathes into the lifeless bodies of His two witnesses, and they stand up.

It's important to remember that the world is watching these bodies rot in the streets, celebrating their deaths. One can imagine shock waves circling the globe as media viewers see the dead bodies become alive. This verse makes an expected observation: "great fear fell on those who saw them." Their resurrection prefigures the resurrection of righteous Old Testament saints at Christ's return to earth.

In Ezekiel 37, Ezekiel expressed what he saw and heard regarding this end-time resurrection. In a valley full of bones, he saw dry bones, but heard the Lord say, "Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live" (Ezekiel 37:5). Daniel, too, prophesied about the resurrection of Old Testament saints after the tribulation. He wrote: "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake" (Daniel 12:2).