The Meaning Of The Two Witnesses

And I will give power unto my two witnesses,

 and they shall prophesy a thousand 

two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And after three days  and an half the Spirit of life from God entered 

into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud: and their

 enemies beheld them. And the same hour was 

there a great earthquake, and the tenth part 

of the city fell, and in the earthquake were 

slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Revelation 11:3-13

     This is a long string of verses but very necessary to be kept together as they are all of one narrative. The temple of God now measured, man in toto is measured and then two witnesses come into this narrative, we must know who they are and how they apply to us. The Church of God is physically present in all of those who are Authentic Christians and the Church of God is also spiritual, the spiritual Church of Jesus Christ. The Church of Jesus Christ, that is you, are witnesses of Jesus Christ. You are His witness to testify the truth of His word, and the truth as to His worship, the excellency of His ways. The Church of Jesus Christ is clothed in sackcloth, a meaning of mourning and sadness but not forever, only for a short period of time, 31/2 days. You are testifying against the corruption, the false teaching, that which is heretical, not just of the secular world, no, but also within the Church. Paul gives to us a message about olive trees: "For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy, and if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of th root and fatness of the olive tree"..."Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if then continue in His goodness: otherwise thou shall be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graff them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree" (Romans 11:16-17; 22-24)? All men and women, children are of the natural, and when one believes upon the Lord Jesus Christ they are grafted into the true olive tree, Jesus Christ, and this makes a person to be, even though unnatural, an olive tree, a branch of the true olive tree. These witnesses carry a candlestick and it is easy to know about this for we see, even in movies, men and women who are in the dark using a candle, a flame, to light their path. If you, and you do, have a candlestick, light it for it brings light to those in the dark. Remember, all men and women who are Authentic Christians stand before God. You are not to just be a witness to your own salvation and goodness, to be a light showing who godly you are, no, you are doing this as one who is doing this for God. It is God who gives power for this to be accomplished. If you do not plug into that power no matter how Authentic you are, you are not being used by God as He has intended to use you. Fire is cleansing, and the word of God is like a fire, it reaches down into the very belly of a person and ignites fire, a knowledge as to how sinful they are, and if they respond to this fire then they too will be grafted into the Church of Jesus Christ. Candlesticks use oil and in that day the oil was derived from olives. Oil was used for cleansing, as a salve, you have been anointed with oil, the oil of gladness (Hebrews 1:9). We are told in Revelation 6:6 not to hurt the oil. We must not be as those who ran out of oil, did not take enough oil to make it to the celebration: do not be as they were and then live in darkness. Be united with other Authentic Christians and bodily proclaim the Gospel. The world will, and they do now, hate you, and want to kill you, as to those who follow Islam, and others, but your words, the Gospel will turn their waters into blood, as it did when Moses confronted Pharaoh. The word of God will bring plagues, that is they will be tormented, plagued when they hear the truth and yet will not believe. Whenever you bring the Gospel this all will occur. 

     There will be, and there is now, a war between the evil, the antichrists that spew from their mouths heresy and for a time they seem to be able to kill the witnesess. The bodies of the faithful will be seen openly, cast out into the open, in the streets of Babylon, that is into this evil world as Babylon represents this evil world. This evil world, Babylon is represented by Sodom, a place of wickedness, a place were homosexuality and other sins were practiced openly and it is in this Babylon that Jesus Christ was crucified. Great joy will be had by all who oppose Authentic Christianity over what seems to them to be victory, they feel as though they will never again have to hear of the doctrine of Jesus Christ, a doctrine that torments them.

     Now comes a revelation as the Spirit of God again indwells them and they hear the voice calling them to "come up hither." Great earthquakes, a shaking of the earth begins and men and women, children were killed and they were frightened, even some so frightened that they gave glory to God of heaven. 

     As was mentioned in the last blog, some will come to heaven with smoke on them, as they came out of the fire. Do not wait to go through the fire, be an Authentic Christian now, be a witness, be one of the two witnesses, for God will empower you, and no man, no matter can keep you from being called to come up to God. 

Then answered I them, and said unto them,

     The god of heaven, He will prosper us;

therefore we His servants will arise and build:

                   Nehemiah 2:20a

God will never leave you: don't leave Him

Richard L. Crumb