12 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.
and their enemies watched them (ascend to heaven) – the “time, times and half a times has ended,” and the 1,000 year reign of the Martyr’s with Christ begins; 2,300 days, in Dan 8:14, less 1,290 days in Dan12:11. This begins the “First Resurrection” described in Rev 20:4. Symbolically the whole persecution and massacre of the Reformation becomes a public event where the Martyrs willingly accept God’s call up to heaven.