so its four parts :-), not three :-).
Whatever...:-).
Check this out :-).
TABITHA IN THE APOCALYPSE OF ELIJAH
THE Apocalypse of Elijah, an extended eschatological discourse from third-century Upper Egypt, describes the activities of a Son of Perdition in the end of days. In one of the phases of this figure's activity, he kills a series of martyrs who try to expose him. Among these martyrs are Enoch and Elijah (following Rev. 11), the 'priests of the land", and finally 'sixty righteous ones', the latter two ups perhaps reflecting the Decian persecution. But leading this series of martyrdoms we read the following:
The virgin parthenos] whose name is Tabitha will hear that the shameless one has made his appearance in the holy place. She will put on her garment of linen and hurry up to Judea, reproving him as far as Jerusalem, saying to him, 'O shameless one, O son of lawlessness, O you who are hostile to all the saints!' Then the shameless one will be angered at the virgin. He will pursue her towards the west [lit: 'the region of the sunset']. He will suck her blooden the evening and toss her up onto the temple, and she will become a healing [oujai] for the people [laos]. At dawn she will rise up alive and rebuke him saying, 'You shameless one-you have no power over my spirit [psyche] or my body [soma], because I live in the Lord always! And even my blood which you cast upon the temple has become a healing for the people!²
Although most commentators have assumed that this Tabitha is identical to the Tabitha/Dorcas of Acts 9-and that her resurrection at the hands of Peter would have inspired such further...
On Enoch and Elijah here and at the end of the Apocalypse of Elijah see Richard Bauckham, The Martyrdom of Enoch and Elijah: Jewish or Christian?" JLB xcv (1976), 447-58; and Enoch and Elijah in the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah, Studia Patristica xvi (1985), 69–76. Trans from P. Chester Beatty 2018 fol. 14' f (published by Albert Pietersma et al. The Apocalypse of Elijah, SBL Texts and Translations 19 (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981), pp. 46 f.) and Paris, Bibliothèque Nat., Copte 115 fol. 6 (published by Georg Steindorff, Die Apokalypse des Elias (Leipzig, 1899), pp. 123 ). The earliest witness to the Apocalypse of Elijah, Didymus the Blind, refers specifically to this scene in his Commentary on Ecclesiastes on Eccl. 8: 4b-sa: in the prophecy of Elijah, a certain girl [kore] having risen up and accused [the Antichrist), called him "Shameless" (amandés) (cd. Bärbel Krebber and Johannes Kramer, Didymos der Blinde: Kommentar zum Ecclesiastes 4 (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1972). 136-7. cf. 159-61). This apocalypse of Elijah was only one of a number of Elijah apocrypha known by early patristic and rabbinic authorities. For a collection of such witnesses see Michael Stone and John Strugnell, The Books of Elijah, SBL Texts & Translations Series, 18 (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, (1979).
And thats the only page I can get out of it because I dont have access etc...The library staff is about to kill me, I just turned in three request for periodicals, books etc from the inter-library loan program :-).
Anyways:
The two witnesses are the male and female embodiments of the divine, through the spirits of Tabitha and Elijah, manifest in the form of one soul in two different bodies, and represented by Honey and myself.
Yup.
Go find yourself two others who have been saying two bodies one soul for nine and a half years and are about to join forces as such a time as this. Good luck.
And remember what I was instructed to say not very long ago...:
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