The Two Witnesses

Commentary.

Revelation 11

"In verse 3, the anonymous voice speaking to John takes on a kind of personality: And I will give power to my two witnesses. This can only be the voice of God, for God is clearly the source of the witnesses' authority, yet the voice goes on to speak in the third person of the Lord of the earth (v. 4), a breath of life from God (v. 11) and the God of heaven (v. 13). This is characteristic of many biblical oracles in which God speaks through a prophet, partly from God's own perspective in heaven and partly from that of the prophet who delivers the message on earth."

"In America, the Shakers identified the witnesses as the male and female aspects of God, linked both to Christ's first coming (as Jesus of Nazareth) and second coming (as Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers)."

Here we go with the puzzle pieces again.

Remember?

The dust devil out in the field?

It's made up of bible verses and concepts and denominations and it's swirling around coming together, breaking apart and coming back together again?

There's a post on here somewhere about it lol

The Rastas got babylon right.

Not a place, a concept, greed, craving, materialism etc.

While were here, and I've said this before, but it's as good a place to cover it as any, luxury isn't a sin.

It's the craving of it, the not sharing it with others, and being jealous of others that have it when you don't thats ungodly.

Anyway lol.

Yeah, his voice lol.

Shakers got this part right:

"the Shakers identified the witnesses as the male and female aspects of God"

Promise.

"The witnesses, therefore, should be understood as vehicles of the Holy Spirit, representing Christian prophecy or the church in its prophetic ministry to the world, whether in John's time or ours."

"Here the transformation is that the people of God themselves become the executors of divine judgments. 

(Happening. Previously and as we speak.)

In the trumpet series their role was largely passive: God sent judgment on the earth in response to their prayers (8:3-5), and they were protected from harm by virtue of having "the seal of God on their foreheads" (9:4; compare 7:3-4), but otherwise they were out of the picture. Now they are very much in the picture, in the persons of their representatives, the two witnesses."

The Prophecy of the Two Witnesses