This study was written by Roger D. Christopherson, and provided here with permission.

The Two Witnesses - Revelation Chapter 11

Part 2

Kenites, satan's children in the flesh to deceive you for this five month period. You are either sealed or you are not sealed, there is no half way.

Revelation 9:5
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

When "a scorpion strikes a man", the damage is done within the person's own body. The first thing that shuts down is your mind and central nervous system. The scorpion has no stomach, and thus the digestive juices and the process is done within the body of the man that the scorpion struck. With the mind and nervous system out of control, the digestive processes of the scorpion takes place within the person being rendered helpless, and incapable to defend himself [herself].

This is how the spiritual battle of the end times will take place, for the battlefield when satan is playing the role of Antichrist will be in the minds of those people here on earth. God will allow satan to render the people spiritually helpless during that five month period of time, and through satan's lying wonders, and deceiving tongue, they will believe satan to be Jesus Christ. All but the elect, and those sealed with the truth sealed away in their minds, will not see through satan's lies, and will run to worship him.

Holy Communion will cease for the people, even many Christians will believe satan to be Christ, and they will believe that Jesus has returned. In their minds and through their traditions they will believe satan's system will be Christ's kingdom here on earth. Yet all this while, God will have his "two witnesses" in that time of this great deception [tribulation], and these "two witnesses" are the subject of this chapter.

Revelation 11:3
3
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

This chapter will focus on the last three and a half days of the final five months of this age of the flesh which brings about the last days before our Lord Jesus Christ's return. The church [many membered body of Christ] is still here on earth during this period of time. However, the witnesses will be witnessing for the entire thousand two hundred and threescore days [shortened to five months] during this final period. God is placing these two witnesses on earth for the sole purpose of witnessing for Him. These two witnesses will warn all mankind, and "being clothed in sackcloth" indicates that this warning of the people of their sins is to be the witnesses only mission.

Daniel 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty,
but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25
And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

Daniel 8:13-25 tells us that when satan comes, he will bring peace to the world and make the world to prosper. If your mind is set on prospering and making money while getting ahead in the things of this world, you are definitely not clothed in sackcloth. Those two witnesses will be focused on the things of God, and not on the gimmicks and promises that the Kenites (who call themselves "Jews" but do lie) are using, and their puppets are offering the world.

Notice also that the time of the two witnesses witnessing are given in days. These witnesses are the children of the light, and their message is of God. When you compare the forty two months of Antichrist, from Daniel 9, with the 1,260 days of the two witnesses, they are the same.

Rev 11:4
4 These are the
two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God [Lord] of the earth.

in Zechariah 4:3, 11 and 14 these "two witnesses" are the "olive trees" that are spoken of there:

Zechariah 4:11
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon
the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

Zechariah 4:12
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

Zechariah 4:13
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

Zechariah 4:14
14 Then said he,
These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.

This is the answer given by this angel of God to Zechariah's question as to who the "two olive trees" are that were in his vision. The two witnesses are anointed are anointed by God, they that shall stand by "the Lord in the whole earth". Not satan, but God the Father. They stand against satan the Antichrist's one world system [one worldism], and on the side of God's elect in these final days of this second earth age of the flesh.

The "candlesticks" represent the churches", and we saw in Revelation 2 and 3, that there are only two churches, or types of churches that God will respect at the close of this earth age. Jesus is telling John to write the things that he is revealing to him, and John is revealing to us by the words of Jesus Christ himself who these candlesticks are.

Revelation 1:19
19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

Those things that John is writing is called the book of Revelation.

Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

When you know that the "candlesticks" represent all of the types of the seven churches of the final generation, than we know that when the "angel of God" is talking about "candlesticks", he is talking about "churches". From Revelation 2:9 and 3:9, God tells us that only two of the seven churches were acceptable to him. Those were the Churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia. The reason for their acceptance was because they knew who the "Kenites" are, and would not allow the false doctrine of the Kenites to come into their churches.

So we see, when satan the Antichrist is upon the earth, the witnesses for God will be the two witnesses [the "olive trees"]. The churches that give doctrine, and know who the Kenites are, like the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia [the two candlesticks]. The "elect" will come from those types of churches and also all those saints which understand their doctrine.

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