The account then says that the wild beast would “conquer them and kill them.”

Rev. 11:7,

At the end of their preaching in sackcloth, these anointed ones were symbolically killed when they were thrown into prison for a comparatively shorter period of time, a symbolic three and a half days. In the eyes of the enemies of God’s people, their work had been killed, causing those opponents much joy.​—Rev. 11:8-10.