The greatest and most powerful thing on earth is witness — the witness of the Spirit and the Word which God has raised up in the earth to testify of Himself and to accomplish His plan and purpose! In I John 5:8 we read, “And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood.” The Spirit then is one of the witnesses, even as the writer to the Hebrews states, “The Holy Ghost also is a witness to us” (Heb. 10:15), and “The Spirit itself beareth witness,” (Rom. 8:6), and “It is the Spirit that beareth witness” (I Jn. 5:6). In the apostle John’s first epistle we find that Jesus Christ came by “water and blood” (I Jn. 5:6). So the water and blood both witness through Him who is the living Word, the divine Logos. Therefore the two witnesses become the Spirit and the Word! “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations” (Mat. 24:14). Of course men are the human agents through whom this witness becomes effectual, “YE shall be my witnesses,” and in this connection we remember how our Lord sent His disciples two by two (Mk. 6:7). After the day of Pentecost the apostles often traveled in twos, Paul and Silas, Paul and John Mark, etc. Two, as we have shown, is the number of witness required by law and approved by the gospel. It was and is and ever has been the purpose of God to bring forth a PROPHETIC ARMY, in whom the spirit of prophecy moves to unfold in the written word and in the spirit realm the living Word of God. This is that “Elijah which is to come” and who is to “restore all things” — a company of prophets, a many-membered prophet!
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:38:35 +0000
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