It is interesting to not the state of those

who have been martyred.

Death is never then end of existence.

The saints that have been killed during

the Tribulation are under the altar, it is

more than likely

paradise or the

Third Heaven.

(2 Corinthians

12:1-4)

It is not as high a

heaven as the one

where God's throne

and the heavenly

temple is,

as expressed 'under the altar', but it is

close enough for those who are there

to be in the presence of God. "Absent

from the body, present with the Lord."

2 Corinthians 5:8