3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy ia thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5 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. 6 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. 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them
The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Re 11:3–7.
Much has been written concerning the two witnesses of Revelation 11, yet from what we gather from other texts that lend to this passage, they represent those God gives to be witnesses. The witness is what is given in Acts 1, when Jesus finally prophesies the coming of the Holy Spirit, and would make them witnesses. This is not the traditional interpretation we gave in times past, a mere evangelistic term to witness the Gospel to those who do not believe.
This witness I have written a book that is in our Store for you to acquire, but it is not a word we give for God, but it is a witness God gives to us. It is the difference between having authority or not.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, qthat he pleased God
The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Heb 11:5.
Who gave him the witness? God Himself.
We need to get into what John perceived when he saw these two witnesses. He must have thought they were revisiting prophets, but yet he must have recognised that Zechariah saw the same vision.
These two olive trees represent two “sons of oil”, being that they are made sons via the Covenant, and they are related to the oil, being the Holy Spirit being that they are sons of God. Not only that they represent the Lampstand that stands before the Ark of the Covenant. So John was seeing what believers, being brought into ever increasing dimensions of sonship.
Is the Church conscious of their sonship through Christ, to the Father? I doubt it is.
Once we grasp that our sonship is key to moving into the judgment that moves in us and through us. As much as we pour out from the fullness of the “Oil” by virtue of our relationship to that “oil” the judgments can flow when the season comes. We sometimes in our theology see the final judgments from a abstract, Jesus is judging, and we are subject to them, no, the Word makes it clear that as we seek to walk in Grace we will also work in the same “marturia” as Jesus.
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Re 19:10.
The “testimony of Jesus” is not the word we give for Him, it is a heavenly substance as we walk and live our lives according to His Reign. And as we live according to this standard we become His witnesses.
8 But ye shall receive ppower, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ac 1:8.
In this, the correlation between the coming of the Holy Spirit to all believers mean that He gives them the “marturia”, which makes them part of the witnesses of Revelation 11. The witnesses of Revelation have come to what we are studying in this series: FULLNESS. In their fullness the signs confirm the Word, signs in the body, signs in the heavens, signs in the earth. These signs will terrorise kings and evil people, and they will finally see the truth, that it was not mere words.
It will be that the world may kill off the body, of these witnesses, but God will raise them up and take them to heavenly places.
The delight of the martyrdom of these witnesses will delight the world, but from their ascension from their midst having been dead and brought back to life, will the end judgments occur from there.
Because Jesus’ return is not set in Kronos terms in the Greek text, and set in Kairos, means that the process of fullness will birth conditions for judgments and recompense to come. We are part of the judgment process and as such we then qualify for the recompenses that come after.
The enemy has convinced the Church that there is no more judgment, no more to preach about judgments and is short circuiting the process that the Church become the Bride that brings with her Lover, the judgments.
Who you can see alongside the Bride, to the right, is the Father, to the left is the Holy Spirit. The judgments we speak make way for the conditions for this end time scene that opens an eternity of joy, ecstasy, peace for ever. Here we see Jesus in His rightful place, and the Bride in the fullness of her preparation. The false Bride; Babylon has been exposed and thrown into the fire.
What seems unpleasant in the judgments, for this reason many do not want to teach or preach, because the enemy desires to derail the above scenario. As I said in the beginning of the series, that FULLNESS is the trigger for judgments, and as His saints grow into the fullness of their marturia, they qualify for their part in the Bride.
So we can conclude that as we move into the fullness of our marturia (witness) we qualify and become the Bride of Christ. The fact we embrace the witness, execute the judgments resulting from our witness we exact the conditions for the excellency of our eternal destiny.
May we begin to embrace judgments as part of the process, let us prepare because in being the witnesses we become adorned as His Bride.
Maranatha!
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