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NASB | Revelation 11:3 "And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 11:3 "And I will grant authority to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years), dressed in sackcloth." [Deut 18:18; Mal 4:5; Mark 9:4] |
Subject: "Two witnesses." When? Who? |
Bible Note: 2Th 2:1 And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him, 2 that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived; 3 let not any one deceive you in any manner, because--if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed--the son of the destruction, 4 who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God--the day doth not come. 5 Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you? Paul is talking about two things here, our gathering together unto Jesus, and the Day of Christ, otherwise known as the “Day of the Lord”. The Thessolonians were being told that the Day of the Lord, i.e. of judgement, had come, and that they had missed the rapture. Paul desires that they not be shaken, nor troubled, as if that day had already come – what day? The Day of the Lord. That day won’t come unless the falling away and revealing of the man of sin come first. Isaiah 13:9 Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it. The Day of the Lord is the time of wrath from which we are told over and over that we have been rescued. The Lord can return at any moment. Jesus, Paul, Peter, all teach expectancy. Expectancy goes right out the window if my escatology puts the revealing of the antichrist before the rapture. This is so much scripture pointing us towards the teaching of being removed before the Day of the Lord comes, as a sudden destruction, at the beginning of the seventieth week, it will not fit a posting on this site, and I invite any interested to e-mail me, and I would like to share the results of my just completed study on this subject. I truly wish to know only the truth as God gives it. After exchanging with some of you a few weeks ago, I undertook to again determine what the Bible says on this topic, and I am convinced more than ever that the pre-trib view is the correct one. Ialso happen to think we may well be persecuted before that comes, and I pray for the strength of the church. Love in Christ, Mark |