Chapter 15.11
Two Witnesses
Identity
– Purpose – Their Rapture – Supernatural Power – Immortality
Turn
Water into Blood – Fire – Drought – The Earthquake – Abyss King
One witness shall not rise up against a man for
any iniquity, or sin.
In any sin that he sins: at the mouth of TWO WITNESSES,
or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the
matter be established.[1]
First
Word
We
pick up the story of the Two Witnesses as
part
one of Christ’s return in THE AIR has already
happened and He has RAPTURED the dead
believers as well as the believers that are still alive.[2]
(Part two takes place when He returns to THE EARTH and reigns for
1,000 years.)
The Seven Year Tribulation period has already
begun... 144,000 Jewish Evangelist have already been sanctioned for
the last time to evangelize the world with the Gospel Message. The Two Witnesses appear
during the LAST 3 ½ years of the tribulation period as mentioned
in the 1,260 days of Revelation.
Symbols.
In the scriptures, the two olive trees and two lamp stands are
symbolic of the two
witnesses. Olive oil and lamp
stands both
give light and are also symbolic
of the light of the “WORD” of God.
Revelation 11:3-5 - Two Witnesses, Two
Evangelist, Two Prophets
3 And I will
give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in
sackcloth."
4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that
stand before the Lord of the earth.
5 If anyone
tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies.
This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. NIV
Purpose
Two purposes for the Tribulations (also known as “Jacobs Trouble”).
1)
To
purge Israel
and prepare the believing Jewish remnant for the return of the Messiah.
2)
To
punish the
wicked for their sins.
The purpose of the Two Jewish
Evangelist; the Watchman on the
Wall also known as “prophets” is
ü
To
display the
power of God, and foretell the great events of wrath to come. Jew and Gentile alike will come to the Lord
because of their testimony.
The two witnesses will be hated by the antichrist and his minions,
his people. The two prophets cannot be
harmed until their assignment has been carried out and is finished.
These “Two
Witnesses” PARALLEL the OT,
when God’s servants Zerubbabel and Joshua, were chosen to reclaim
and rebuild the Jewish temple after the Babylon captivity. The Lord God almighty said it will be rebuilt
and accomplished; “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit”.[3]
God
endued the TWO of them with His Spirit to accomplish His work.
Why Two Witnesses
The
Law of Moses requires Two Witnesses for a
thing to be established as true.[4]
ü The Disciple’s sent out by Jesus
Two by Two[5]
ü Two Angels witnessed Jesus
death[6]
ü Two Angels witnessed the
translation of Jesus.[7]
ü The Gospel; Jesus is one
witness and His Father is the Second Witness.[8]
ü The Messiah; the OLD
TESTAMENT one
witness; the NEW
TESTAMENT
the second witness[9]
Supernatural Power
These
two evangelists have been granted unlimited power and authority and
only have to “SPEAK” and fire
consumes their enemies.[10] They can turn water into blood,[11] bring
drought,
and plagues
which are very similar to the MIRACLES wroth by Moses[12]
and Elijah.[13] They cannot be harmed; they are IMORTAL till their assignment on earth is
finished.
Did you see it? The
believer will NOT die until they have
finished what God has sent them to do, whether they are 1 or 101.[14]
Identity
ONE
of the Two Witnesses we believe for sure will be Elijah, because Jesus said
Elijah would come before the great and terrible day of the Lord.[15]
The other of the
Two Evangelist could be MOSES as the
tribulation miracles performed by Moses are like those performed by him while
freeing the Israelites from Egypt. Moses
with Elijah
APPEARED with Jesus as His face and clothes begin
to glow white as He was transfigured on the mountain.[16] Satan tried to take possession of the body of Moses
so that he could not be resurrected.[17]
Others
think
the two witness’s will be ENOCH[18] and
Elijah[19] as NEITHER ONE DIED, but were both translated directly to
Heaven.[20]
From the APOCRYPHA... The
Gospel of Nicodemus 20:3-4
I am Enoch who pleased God, and was translated
by Him, and this is Elijah the Tishbite. We are also to live to the end of the age; but then we are
about to be sent by God to resist Antichrist, and be slain by him, and to rise
after three and one half days, and to be
caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord.- (Is the Apocrypha interesting or what)
The supporting
argument is that Enoch and Elijah will die for the first time on earth when then are killed and RAPTURED. However this argument is a little thin as MANY Christians will
be raptured before they die; besides that Enoch was a Gentile not a Jew.
Just something to ponder....
How
about this?
John the Baptist who
was the forerunner of Christ had a similar message as that of Elijah
and both of them dressed in the same manner...
ü Elijah and John the
Baptist Both would certainly be
at home preaching in SACKCLOTH.[21]
ü Elijah brings forth FIRE and John the Baptist taught
baptism by FIRE.[22]
ü Elijah represents the Old
Testament and John the Baptist represents
the New
Testament.
We really don’t know who the Two Witnesses will be; God can raise up
whomever He chooses.
If the names of the Two
Witnesses were important for us to know, God would have told us so.
Killing the Two Witnesses
The two witnesses are allowed to be killed
after their assignment has been completed.[23] Many people are saved right up to the time of
the prophets deaths. The beast that
kills the two
witnesses is not Satan,
the Antichrist
or his False
Prophet. He is a fallen angel;
He is The King
that rules over the abyss and has been locked away with his
minions and demon subjects.[24] Although Satan is not their King; he is still in control.
The
Greek word for WITNESS is martus,
which is where we get our English
word MARTYR.
Party Time
Three and a half days is the
literal time that the Two Witnesses lie
slain in the street as three and a half years as some
scholars teach would not work out chronologically.
This
is victory for the beast and his followers as they hated and feared these two evangelists. They are happy now because they think they
no longer have to fear the wrath of God.
All criminals
were granted burial the same day of their execution, however these two witnesses were not buried. This illustrates the pure hatred and spite towards them, even mocking and gloating over their decaying,
rotting, stinking carcasses in the streets; treating them like dead dogs. These vexing, persecuting prophets are now
dead; so they PARTY, CELEBRATING with the EXCHANGING
of GIFTS;
this might possibly denote the (Satanic) Christmas
season.
The
whole world will see the TWO SLAIN
WITNESSES lying
in the street via SATELLITE
TECHNOLOGY.[25] We already have smart phones and wrist devices that
will display these images over and over again.
It would have seemed impossible just 100 years ago for the whole world at
the same time, to see the two witnesses lining
DEAD in the street and then being raptured. Leaping Lizards.
The Resurrection and Rapture
The
world hears an audible voice say, “COME
UP HERE”.
Via Satellite Television, the
world sees the two
witnesses resurrected back to
life and then RAPTURED into heaven.[26] In the FIRST Rapture
of the SAINTS, the
translation happens in the blink of an eye;
HOWEVER this catching up into Heaven of the Two Witnesses will be slow enough that everybody will see it as
well as all the instant replays.
You can be sure, that because of the
awareness of the book of “Revelation”, that many cameras will be trained
on them from every possible angle, including “looking upward”, not wanting to
miss a thing. I will get to see this up
close and personally, not from earth, but from far up above “looking downward” as they come up welcomed by multitudes of angels
clapping, singing and glorifying God... AWESOME
God gets their attention
As
the two witnesses begin their ascension, a severe earthquake occurs and seven thousand
men are killed in the city; fear grips the hearts of the survivors. The JEWS recognize that this is the hand of God and give him Glory.[27] Before this earthquake, one-half of the
world’s population has already been killed and this seven thousand is added to
that. For the sake of the believers,
this was a reduced number.[28]
The Take Away
God sends two witnesses to preach one
more time to just the Jews in Jerusalem... They do miracles... Many are
saved. There are at least three options on who these two witnesses might
be
ü
Option
One might
be Elijah
and Enoch,
as both did not die and were previously
raptured or translated.
ü
Option
Two is
Elijah
and Moses
because they performed the same miracles
as the two witnesses, plus Satan fought over the bones of Moses to keep him
from the resurrection.
ü
Option
Three is
Elijah
and John the
Baptist representing the Old and New Testament.
The Two
Witnesses preach the Gospel for
the last 3 ½ years of the
tribulation period and are supernaturally protected during their mission; they
are temporally
IMMORTAL. They perform great miracles; call down fire
from Heaven, and cause droughts.
When their mission is complete, God allows the King of the Abyss to kill them.
This king is a fallen angel controlled by Satan. The Two Witnesses lie
in the streets of Jerusalem for 3 ½ days
which is televised by satellite television all over the world. People are happy and give each other gifts… Might
be at Christmas time.
The
Heavens thunder and the Two Witnesses are resurrected back to life and then raptured or
translated to heaven; in my BS I see the process slow enough for everybody on
earth to see it via satellite.
A
great earthquake hits and a tenth
of Jerusalem is destroyed and seven thousand men are killed. The survivors
recognize that this is the power of God and now He has everybody’s attention
and they see His invitation to salvation.
The Wrath of God has been partially displayed, not just to punish
or to purge, but to sound the alarm as the “Watchman on the Wall”. It’s a trumpet call to attention, to make the
world aware of the need for a “COURSE
CORRECTION”
before it’s too late.
OVER
AND OVER
again; God reaches out... He
takes no pleasure in the death of man.[29]
God left the door to Noah’s Ark open an extra week after everything was on board,
hoping others would come; then He CLOSED
THE DOOR.
Once the door is closed, it will not be re-opened.
Through His Son Jesus Christ, our loving God
has opened a NEW door...
He will only
show you the door;
YOU MUST CHOOSE TO WALK THROUGH IT, BEFORE IT
CLOSES.
The next thing to occur is the first stage
of Armageddon, you have already chosen to be a participant or be an observer... Life is choice driven
[1]
Deuteronomy 19:15 - In the mouth of two or three witnesses is a thing
established.
[2] 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 –
Rapture; Dead believers First then the living
[3] Zechariah 4:6 - Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit
[4] Matthew 18:16 – Two Witnesses establish something as true
[5] Luke 10:1 – Jesus sent
out the witnesses Two by Two
[6] John 20:12 – Two Angels witnessed the slain body of Jesus
[7] Acts 1:10 – Two Angels witnessed Jesus translation
[8] John 8:17-18 – Why Two Witnesses? The Law
requires it. I am one who testifies for myself; my
other witness is the Father
[9] Deuteronomy 19:15 – At
the mouth of Two Witnesses is a thing
established
[10] Revelation 11: 6 – The TWO
WITNESSES have
supernatural POWER
to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
[11] Exodus 7:17 – Moses Changed the waters into BLOOD
[12] Numbers 16:35 – Moses Called FIRE down from Heaven
[13] 2 Kings 1:10 – Elijah Called FIRE down from Heaven
[14] Isaiah 55:11 – You will accomplish what you were
sent to do before you die.
[15] Mark 9:11-12 – The Law says Elijah must
come first. -- Malachi 4:5 – Elijah must come
first before that Dreadful Day -- Matthew 17:9-11 - Elijah comes first and will restore all
things
[16] Matthew 17:2-3 – Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus as he was
transfigured
[17] Jude 1:9 – Satan tried to take possession
of Moses body
[18] Hebrews 11:5 – Enoch did not experience death - Raptured
[19] 2 Kings 2:11 – Elijah did not experience death - Raptured
[20] Hebrews 9:27 – At some
point Elijah and Enoch
must die
[21] Revelation 11:3 – Two witnesses will
prophesy clothed in Sackcloth
[22] Matthew 3:11 – John the Baptist said Jesus
will Baptize with FIRE
[23] Revelation 11:7 – The Two Witnesses are allowed to be killed after their
assignments have been completed.
[24] Revelation 9:11 – The Beast is the King of the Abyss; a Fallen Angel whose
name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon
[25] Revelation 11:8-10 – The Two Witnesses will lie dead
in the street for 3 ½ days then raptured;
Televised by Satellite worldwide.
[26] Revelation 11:11-12 – The
Two Witnesses were Resurrected
and Raptured
[27] Revelation 11:13 –
Earthquake Survivors are terrified, and recognize this is the hand of God and give Glory to God
[28] Matthew 24:22 - For sake of the elect
the tribulation days will be cut short
[29] Ezekiel 18:32 - I take no pleasure in the death of anyone
Therefore, repent and live
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