Well, the Lord will not return until the full number is martyred. The poor souls under the Altar of Souls. I feel so bad for them. Soon maybe. But on The Lord's time.

"These souls are not disembodied spirits. They are, after all, visible to John. Nor are they the "lives" or "selves" of slaughtered victims as a kind of abstraction, nor are they typical of what theologians like to call "the intermediate state" (the interval between a believer's physical death and the final resurrection). Rather, at least within the horizons of John's vision, these souls are people with voices and real bodies, like the "beheaded" souls of 20:4. They are martyrs, not just in the sense of bearing testimony (Greek martyria, v. 9), but in the sense of having been "killed" (v. 11) for their testimony. Like Abel, the first martyr, who "still speaks, even though he is dead" (Heb 11:4; compare Gen 4:10), they cry out for justice to be done. Their prayer (v. 10) is the heart of the fifth seal. It is the prime example of what was meant by the "prayers of the saints" (5:8; compare 8:3-4)."

Well, the Lord will not return until the full number is martyred. The poor saints under the Altar of Souls. I feel so bad for them. Soon maybe. But on The Lord's time.