THE TWO WITNESSES -13 OF 13 By Steven M. Collins The Resurrection of the Two Witnesses: The beast and false prophet refuse to let the bodies of the two witnesses be buried, likely as a testimony to their “victory” over them. It will be easy to air live coverage of their bodies and have live webcams broadcasting pictures of their corpses to the world. After three and ½ days, Revelation 11:11-12 prophesies that the two witnesses will be resurrected and “great fear” will fall on all who see this event. The resurrection of the two witnesses proves that their ministry was, indeed, empowered by the God of the Bible who resurrects them according to his prophesied timetable in the Bible. The two witnesses will surely have been instructing people to watch for their resurrection three and ½ days after their death. The world will be shocked when it happens. When the two witnesses are resurrected in the full view of their enemies and the world, their worldly mission is over. Revelation 11:13 prophesies that within the same hour that the two witnesses are resurrected, a great earthquake will occur which will ruin a tenth of the city (presumably, Jerusalem) and kill 7000 people. This is not likely to be a slaying of 7000 people at random. God will decide where to send that earthquake so he will be deciding which region of the city suffers 7000 dead (plus an unspecified number of wounded casualties). Perhaps God will send the earthquake upon the region of the city where the beast and false prophet have their headquarters set up. The combined effect of these events will convince many to realize the two witnesses’ warnings were true, and they will “give glory” to God. Conclusion: This concludes my article about the two witnesses. There are many other prophetic subjects, and some of them are covered in my other article in the “Prophecy” links at this website, stevenmcollins. Readers are urged to review them as well for a fuller picture of the events prophesied to occur at the end of our age. How soon will the two witnesses arrive on the world scene? I do not know, and I doubt any man or woman does know. They will come at the appropriate time that God wants to send them. We do know that they will come during the latter days at the end of our age. Many biblical prophesies about the latter days have been and are being fulfilled in world events all around us. Consider the following examples. Zephaniah 2:1-7 prophesied that Judah (the Jews) would establish a nation in the old Promised Land prior to the “day of the Lord.” That was fulfilled in 1948. Daniel 12:4 prophesied “the time of the end” would be characterized by a time when the “many” would be able to “run to and fro.” This was fulfilled with the widespread use of automobiles by the general populations of many nations in the 20th century. Daniel 12:4 also prophesied the “time of the end” would be marked by a knowledge explosion (i.e. “knowledge shall be increased”). This prophecy foretells an exponential increase in mankind’s knowledge as the word “increase” is the same Hebrew word used to describe how the waters “increased” to cover the entire earth during the time in Noah’s time. This increase became possible with the invention of the computer, the internet and numerous other aspects of our “high-tech” society. This prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes to a greater degree every year. Matthew 24:21-22 prophesies a time will come which is so dangerous that “no flesh” would be saved on earth unless Jesus Christ returned to intervene in world events. This prophecy could never literally have been fulfilled until the invention of the nuclear bomb and its first use in 1945. As nuclear bombs were deployed to many times the number needed to destroy all life on earth, the circumstances for fulfilling this prophecy have already been in place for decades. The prophecies about the conditions which will characterize the arrival of the latter days of biblical prophecy were fulfilled, literally, in the 20th century and especially after 1945. Readers are referred to my article about “Ezekiel 38-39 and World War III” in the prophecy links of this website, stevenmcollins, to see that the latter-day alliances of world nations are now exactly in the arrangement prophesied for the latter days. The article on “Captivity to Babylon the Great” also shows the prophesied world economic system called “Babylon the Great” in Revelation 18 is already omnipresent in the world. These many fulfillments of latter day prophesies confirm that the God who authored and inspired the Bible is fulfilling his prophesies exactly as he foretold he would. In Isaiah 41:21-26, God challenges everyone to look at his ability to bring to pass his prophesies as proof that he is real. Psalm 41:1 says: “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.” Before the latter days are concluded, the world will realize what fools the promulgators of evolution were. We do not know how much more time we have left before the latter days bring forth the ministry of the two witnesses. The clock is ticking. Their arrival draws near.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:19:54 +0000
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