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The Two Witnesses "And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city (earthly The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. "And the seventh angel sounded; (Rev.8:1-13, Note:.v13) and there were great voices in
"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." (Rev.11:3-7)
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The two witnesses are Moses and Elijah
"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." (Rev.11:3-7)
1. Elijah shut up heaven that it rain not
"Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of
Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to
my word." (1Kings.17:1-2, Jam.5:17-18)
a. Elijah represents the Prophets.
"Behold, "I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day
of the Lord" (Mal 4:5-6, Matt.11:14; 27:49, Mark.9:11)
b. Behold, there appeared unto them "Moses and Elias (Elijah) talking with him." (Matt 17:3-5)
Here Moses and Elijah were bearing witness (Rom.3:21-31) to the Deity of Christ.
2. Moses turned the waters into blood
"Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold, I (Moses) will smite with
the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to
blood." (Ex 7:17-18)
a. Moses represents the law.
"Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the
things concerning himself." (Luke 24:27-28)
b. "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (John 1:17-18)
3. Elijah and Moses were both taken up to be with the Lord
a. Elijah was taken up alive to God in a chariot of fire. (2KIngs.2:11-12)
b. After Moses died, "Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about
the body of Moses" because God had a job still for Moses to do. (Jude 9-10)
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4. What is the purpose of Moses and Elijah. (The two witnesses)
Their purpose is to "confirm" the remained of the Covenant, that Jesus "began to do and teach"
(Acts.1:1) when He came unto His own." (John.1:11 - i.e. The Jews, the children of the flesh of
Abraham. Rom.9:1-8)
(Review: Phase.5 (Pages.2, 3, 4, 5) for context of the placement of the Two witnesses)
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5. Why Moses (the Law) and Elijah (the Prophets)?
The reason is because Israel (the Jews) will only hear Moses and the Prophets. They already
rejected Jesus when He "began" (Acts.1:1) to "confirm" the covenant with them. Abraham told
the rich man, "They have Moses and the prophets; let them (The Jews, Israel, The children of the
flesh of Abraham) hear them (Moses and Elijah)...If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither
will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. (Luke 16:29-31) Note these scriptures.
a. The "righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the
prophets."(Rom 3:21-22, 29-31) The Law establishes our faith. (Rom.3:31)
b. Jesus began "at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the
things concerning himself. (Luke 24:27-28, 44-45, Matt.13:17, Acts.28"20-23)
6. The 1260 days are three and a half years
God said, "I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two
hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." (Rev.11:1-3)
a. This same lenght of time (1260 days) is used to explain how long the Rev.12 woman
is protected out in the wilderness. (Rev 12:6-7) where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent. " (Rev 12:14-15)
b. The time frame of the two witnesses is also referred to as 42 months, which is equal to
1260 days.
7. What were Moses and Elijah being a "witness" for?
They were being a "witnesses" confirming the remainder of the Covenant that Jesus "began to
do and teach" to His own. The "children of the flesh of Abraham." (Rom.9:8) The Jews.
(Acts.1:1, John.1:11)
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The two witnesses are prophesying where our Lord was crucified.
"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. 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." (Rev 11:7-9)
1. Jesus was crucified outside the City of Jerusalem
When Jesus was crucified "was nigh to the city." (John 19:20-21) The writer of Hebrews says,
"the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin,
are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own
blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his
reproach.(Heb.13:11-14)
Note: The spiritual condition of the "earthly" Jerusalem, during the tribulation is "Sodom and
Egypt." In the first century the apostle Paul compared "Jerusalem which now is" to Ishmael.
(Gal.4:21-31)
2. They were there because this where Jesus was "cut off."
"And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself" (Dan 9:26-27)
leaving three and a half years still to confirm. The two witnesses (Moses and Elijah) are there to
confirm the remaing three and a half years of the Covenant that God made with Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob. (The "fathers"- Rom.28; 15:8, Gal.3:16)
(Review: Phase.5, Pages 4-5 "Daniel's Seventy Weeks" for explanation of chart)
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Why are Moses and Elijah clothed in "sackcloth and ashes?
"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." (Rev.11:3)
1. Sackcloth and ashes is worn in repentance (sorrow, mournng)
Joel prophesied "Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie
all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is
withholden from the house of your God." (Joel 1:13-14)
a. When Jonah proclaimed the Word of the Lord to the people of Nineveh and they believed
God,..."and the king of Nineveh...arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and
covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes."(Jonah 3:5-10)
b. David wrote, "Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper. Thou hast turned
for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with
gladness." (Ps 30:10-12)
2. Moses and Elijah were in standing in the gap for Israel. The Jews
Daniel said, "And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplication, with fasting,
and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed...We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and
have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy
judgments." (Dan 9:3-5) Daniel took responsibility for Judah's sin even though he was upright
before the Lord. (Dan.1:8-21; 6:1-3) Daniel stood in the gap. (Eze.22:30) Moses and Elijah are
doing the same.
a. This time (1260 days, 42 months) is given to Israel to repent
Paul wrote, when the "fulness (the full number) of the Gentiles have come in," (Rom.11:25)
then God will visit "the children of the flesh of Abraham" (Rom.9:8) again." During this time,
"if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
(Rom 11:23)
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b. Foreshadowed by the Passover on the 2nd. month on the 14th day
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according
to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it." (Num 9:2-4)
The appointed time was the 14th. day of the first month. (Exod.12:1-14, Lev.23:1-9)
(1) If they were on a long journey provision was made to keep the feast on the second
month on the 14th. day. (Num.9:1-14) This "long journey" foreshadows the time when
God cut off Israel after they rejected Christ, the true Passover. (Rom.9-11) They were cut
off as Ishmael and Esau was. (Rom.9:1-33, Note:v.9-11)
Note: Everyone had to celebrate Passover. Everyone must recieve Christ as their
Passover Lamb, (1Cor.5:7-8, 1Peter.1:10-12) whether they are Jew or Gentile.
"God is no respecter of persons." Both need to be reconciled "by the cross." (Eph.2:1-19.
Note:v.16)
(2) If they were unclean because of a dead body provision was made to keep the feast
on the second month on the 14th. day. (Num.9:1-14) This foreshadows Israel's rejection
of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
The "witnesses" were prophesying during the same time as
the antichrist
When "they (Moses and Elijah) shall have finished their testimony, the beast (The antichrist) that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, (earthly Jerusalem) which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." (Rev 11:7-9)
1. The "beast" is the antichrist 
The indentification mark is that he "ascends from the bottomless pit.
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. (Rev 11:7; 17:8;
2. Prophesying during same time as the antichrist
The reason for this conclusion is because the antichrist kills Moses
and Elijah. (Rev.11:1-14)
a. This places Moses and Elijah in the same time frame, and
that time frame is only 42 months. (1260 days, 3 1/2 years)
b. This is the same lenght of time for Moses and Elijah to prophecy.
(1260 days)
3. This presents a interesting picture.
a. Moses and Elijah will confirm the remainder of the Covenant that The Lord Jesus Christ
(God manifest in the flesh 1Tim.3:16) "began to do and teach," (Acts.1:1) when He "came unto
His own." (The Jews - John.1:11)
(1) This Covenant was the Covenant that God made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. (The
fathers -Rom.11:28)
(2) Note the seal to the covenant that God made with Abraham.
It was circumcision. (Gen.17:1-14)
(3) Circumcision was where the child received his name.
(Gen.21:1-5, Luke.1:59)
(4) Jesus confirmed ((Dan.9:27, Gal.3:16, Matt.5:17-19) this
Covenant and recorded His name upon us in our Water
Baptism. (Col.2:10-12, Matt.28:19, Acts.2:36-38; 8:16; 10:48;
19:5, Eph.3:14-15)
b. At the same time the antichrist is counterfeiting this truth.
(1) By pretenting (to give a false appearance of being) in
Covenant with the Harlot Woman. (Rev.17:1-18) This is his
character to be lair (John.8:44; 10:1-15) and covenant breaker
(2Tim.3:1-3) like his father, the Devil. (Dragon Rev.12:9; 13:1-18)
(2) By counterfeiting God's Seal and giving us the number of his
name. (Rev.13:16-18) Once again, the antichrist is saying, "I will be like the most High."
(Isa.14:14, 2Thes.2:1-4)
c. The antichrist (beast) kills the two witnesses, Moses and Elijah
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." (Rev 11:7-8)
(1) Their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city. (Earthly Jerusalem "which is
spitituall called, Sodom and Egypt - Rev 11:8)
(2) 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.
(Rev 11:9-10)
(3) 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."
(Rev 11:10-11)
d. Moses and Elijah come back to life
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." (Rev 11:11-12)
e. They are taken up to heaven
Then there was heard "a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they
(Moses and Elijah) ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them."
(Rev 11:12-13)
Jerusalem, spiritually called Sodom and Egypt) fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men
seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his
Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever." (Rev 11:13-16)
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