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S3E27 Fellowship: Two Witnesses

Maranatha Ministries

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  1. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the fellowship tonight. We're

  2. progressing ever backward through the eschatological terminology. We are getting

  3. this list from the Wikipedia article for Christian eschatology. If

  4. you go there and you click on the terms, you

  5. will see what says actually key terms. Expand the key terms,

  6. and if you go to the bottom of the list

  7. and work you way four that's where we're at. We

  8. did the World to Come, we did a Woman of

  9. the Apocalypse, we did the Whore of Babylon, we did

  10. the War in Heaven. It's time to do the Two Witnesses.

  11. So we're moving ever backwards. So it's the two Witnesses.

  12. Oh my goodness, the history of the guesses that theories

  13. put forth about who the two witnesses are are we

  14. quite endless. I mean, we can say this beyond any

  15. shadow of doubt. The two biggest contenders are Moses and Elijah.

  16. But of course Moses usually gets kicked to the curve

  17. because he died, So it's usually Inich and Elijah, the

  18. two people who have not died. And I appreciate that.

  19. I mean, I would put forth a whole lot more names.

  20. I mean, for example, you go to Bevers chapter eleven,

  21. and when I bring this up, people get real uncomfortable

  22. about it, because well, it's the truth. Is uncomfortable. But

  23. when you go there, there's only three righteous people before

  24. the flood, just three Ain Inich and Noah. So you know,

  25. we can certainly talk about those three. But that's disturbing,

  26. isn't it. It's very disturbing. There's only three people before

  27. the flood that were heirs to the righteousness of faith.

  28. So me, being a Biblicist, I don't know anything else.

  29. I mean, I was raised up through my adult years,

  30. I never studied anything except the encyclopedia and the Bible,

  31. so no commentaries. I didn't care. I never knew that

  32. there were a different eschatological models until I entered an

  33. institution of higher learning. Now, that in itself put me

  34. at a disadvantage because I got there quite earlier than

  35. everybody else. Most people may take the natural progression of

  36. going to high school four years, graduating and then going

  37. to an institution of higher learning. I got there much

  38. sooner than that. So this created a well, it created

  39. quite a quagmire for me because I didn't understand what

  40. they were saying they were completely biblically illiterate, and I'm

  41. talking about my professors astonishingly. So, So with that in mind,

  42. let me ask everybody. Is there anybody here that wants

  43. to tell me who they think the two witnesses are? Anybody?

  44. Come on now, do not tell me that the spirit

  45. is still because I know better.

  46. Well, I don't have an answer to that specifically, but.

  47. A question, can.

  48. Would the two witnesses be able to die twice?

  49. That's a crazy question. Why do you say that? What

  50. makes you think anybody could die twice? That's an interesting

  51. statement there? Please can that explain yourself? Why did you

  52. say that?

  53. So, if the two witnesses are going to be killed

  54. and lie in the street for three days, if they

  55. can't die twice, then that kind of counts Moses out

  56. because he died.

  57. So that's where my.

  58. Logic is going, because so can they die twice?

  59. Can I ask you a better question? Sure? I mean,

  60. let's just follow this. Okay, now, I'm sorry, I'm not

  61. picking on you, but how many times did Lazarus die? Yes?

  62. He died twice.

  63. Okay, do not say he didn't because he did? Right? So,

  64. now that I said that, you're able to unsegregate your mind,

  65. because somebody put that barrier in your mind. I don't

  66. know who did it, but it was somebody else. It

  67. wasn't you, because you instinctively knew that it was the

  68. resurrection of Lazarus that triggered the event. From that point forward,

  69. Jesus what was dumed? They were going to kill him. So,

  70. but that's a good point, and you know, I'm going

  71. to bring up a better point. Elijah had his time, right,

  72. I mean, there are limits in place after the flood.

  73. The Lord God swore that the days of man would

  74. be numbered, right, So I mean, whether you like it

  75. or not, you have a time with it. And Elijah

  76. had his time, and so did Enich. They had their time.

  77. They lived. So this has always been very curious to

  78. me that people really do think this is just two

  79. witnesses when you understand that there is a structure to revelation.

  80. There really is. There's a structure to it, and there

  81. are literary devices in it, and the narrative of the

  82. two witnesses is kind of inserted. It's kind of inserted

  83. in a place where, well, most people don't want to

  84. most people don't want to bring up the obvious that

  85. this has just kind of been thrown in there, okay,

  86. because it's in the middle of the trumpets. I mean,

  87. you don't have to like it, but it is. I mean,

  88. Revelation Chapter nine is the fifth, is the fifth and

  89. sixth trumpets?

  90. Right?

  91. Well, all of ten and the first fourteen verses of

  92. the eleven are outside of that narratives. That's be those

  93. those things are before the seventh trumpet. So, Kenneth, let

  94. me ask you what is the seventh trumpet? Or anybody

  95. as far as that concerned, what literally happens at the

  96. seventh trumpet? Anybody, I've taught you this many times. The

  97. seventh trumpet is the coronation of Christ. So why is

  98. this narrative kind of thrown in the middle? One thing

  99. is for sure, it is before the bold judgments, right,

  100. So as far as the chronology of things of things go,

  101. that's one thing. Are they consecutive? Of course they are.

  102. So we need to pan way out because to me,

  103. the two witnesses will be killed, right? Who is it

  104. that will kill them? Does anybody know.

  105. That wasn't the false prophet?

  106. Anybody else? The beast that descended from the Abyss Revelation

  107. chapter eleven, verse seven, when they finish their testimony, the

  108. beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make

  109. war against them, overcome them, and kill them. Hell on,

  110. So let me ask this, why isn't anybody else allowed

  111. to kill them? When we jump up to verse five,

  112. and it plainly states that if anyone wants to harm them,

  113. fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And

  114. if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed

  115. in this manner. Now, the question is how does the

  116. beast kill them? How does the beast from the abyss

  117. kill them? Because as far as the biblical narrative is concerned,

  118. in that window of operation, there's only one way you

  119. can be killed. How is that one way that you

  120. can be killed?

  121. Anybody beheaded?

  122. That's right, beheaded. Now you're getting that from the end

  123. of the story, right, you're getting that from our relation

  124. chapter twenty. Correct. Yes, So when you realize that, I'm

  125. not quite sure why you wouldn't be able to put

  126. these two together, because it plainly the states that those

  127. killed were killed by being beheaded. That's the only way

  128. that you can be killed in the Book of Revelation. Okay,

  129. you can in the birth pains, in the seals. You

  130. can certainly be killed by war, civil war, famine and pestilence,

  131. as far as someone murdering anybody, And this went of

  132. opportunity during the Great Tribulation. It comes down to this.

  133. Any saint of God can only be killed one way.

  134. They must be beheady. So this raises some very important questions.

  135. Once you see that, Once you understand that, that is

  136. to say, once you have in headed the Book of

  137. Revelation in your sycing, once you have literally written it

  138. upon your heart, these things stand out. They stand out

  139. and make sense, and it has echoes of something else.

  140. It has echoes of Matthew chapters ten and eleven and

  141. Luke chapters nine and ten. Because one thing is for sure,

  142. we need to talk about something else. First. We need

  143. to really talk about Matthew chapter twenty four. That's what

  144. we need to do, because one thing is for sure,

  145. Matthew chapter twenty four, verse fourteen. And this Gospel of

  146. the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as

  147. a witness. Yeah, that's what I said, witness as a

  148. witness to all the nation. And then the end will come.

  149. Then it's tell me I mean, you've been pretty vocal

  150. for this fellowship. Tell me how long do you think

  151. that word then needs it says, and then the end

  152. will come? How much time do you think will transpire

  153. for that word then?

  154. Twelve hundred and sixty days?

  155. Really?

  156. Really?

  157. To me, I look at this and I see a

  158. literal end. To me, the end is when the Lord

  159. Jesus Christ stomps on the mount of Olives. To me,

  160. that's the end. And we are plainly told in the

  161. narrative how long that is. So let's be reasonable, everybody.

  162. So you think these two witnesses are going to walk

  163. all over the planet, how long would it take you? Okay, Kenneth,

  164. let's say your particular state. I don't know what state

  165. you're in, but tell me how long would it take

  166. you to walk to every town square in your state?

  167. Because probably even at the least side, there's a probably

  168. at least three hundred towns in your state? Right, How

  169. long would that take? Kenneth? No, really, no, really, how

  170. long would that take?

  171. That would take many many years.

  172. It would take many years just in your state, and

  173. yes it would. I don't understand why people don't think logically.

  174. If Matthew chapter twenty four, verse fourteen is to be true.

  175. If it's to be true, uh, there's going to have

  176. to be a whole lot more than just two people

  177. doing it. And yes, here in Matthew chapter twenty four,

  178. verse fourteen, there's only one word for witness. It's G

  179. thirty one forty two in the Greek. And yes, it

  180. comes from the word martyr. That's where you get the

  181. word martyr. Let me say that again. I'm not trying

  182. to create ontological shock with you, but I know it's

  183. probably the first time you've all have ever looked at

  184. this this way, because these two witnesses are facilitating the

  185. promise her the Lord Jesus Christ. In Matthew chapter twenty four,

  186. verse fourteen. Yes, yes, yes they are, Yes they are.

  187. And when you look at it that way, you realize,

  188. wait a minute, there's no way these two witnesses can

  189. fulfill Matthew chapter twenty four, verse fourteen. There's no way.

  190. But that is what this verse is saying. Yes, this

  191. word here for witness. Let me read it for you again.

  192. In the New King James version and Gospel of the

  193. Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a

  194. witness to all nations, and then the end will come.

  195. So in this it's not it shouldn't be difficult for

  196. you to understand why Revelation chapter eleven, verse five said

  197. what it said. I'm confused as to why people don't.

  198. Let's go back there and read. Okay. And if anyone

  199. wants to harm them, fire proceeds from the mouth and

  200. deviours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them,

  201. he must be killed in this manner. This is the

  202. only way. It is the only way that those who

  203. have fallen prey to the false prophet and taken his mark.

  204. There is no way they would allow these witnesses to

  205. spread this gospel of the Kingdom in their part of

  206. the world. What are you? What are you nuts? So

  207. this was always in play, Matthew, Chapter twenty four, verse fourteen.

  208. Could never come true, It could never come true outside

  209. of supernatural intervention. I'm just staying, Let's just take today. Okay,

  210. let's just take today. We don't have to go so

  211. far as being in the tribulation. Let me just ask Kenneth, Kenneth,

  212. what happens if you go to a Muslim country, go

  213. to their town square, set you up a soapbox and

  214. start preaching that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven.

  215. What will happen to you?

  216. Most likely be beheaded?

  217. No not most you would be beheaded. No no, don't, don't.

  218. Don't play with history. Okay, they love posting the videos.

  219. You will die. So I don't understand why people think

  220. that Matthew Chapter twenty four, verse fourteen could ever come true.

  221. I dare you, I dare you to go to the

  222. country and ask Afghanistan, Afghanistan, do this. I dare you,

  223. I gear you to go to Turkey. So I don't

  224. know why people have allowed bad shepherds to separate their

  225. intellect from the word of God. Because God wrote the

  226. Bible to explain to you what's going to happen, and

  227. you should naturally know that the laws of physics are

  228. in effect. And when God says that He's going to

  229. hand over the authority he gave to Satan through the

  230. scapegoat and to the false prophet, I don't know what.

  231. I don't know why you think that God's being facetious.

  232. There's only one way they are going to do this

  233. under these circumstances. And he comes right out and tells

  234. you he comes right out and tells you. So we've

  235. already read this. When they finish their testimony, the beast

  236. that the sins out of the bottoms will make war

  237. against them, overcome them.

  238. And kill them.

  239. Okay, how so now the message is finished, right right now,

  240. the message is it's finished. Now, the message is finished,

  241. Yes it is, Yes it is. Okay, Let's go back

  242. to Matthew chapter twenty four, verse fourteen. And this gospel

  243. of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world

  244. as a witness to all nations, and then the end

  245. will come. And then the end will come. Let's see

  246. what it says. Let's go back to Revelation chapter eleven

  247. and continue on with verse eight. So now that they're done,

  248. Now the gospel of the Kingdom has been preached to

  249. the end of the world. Now they're killed. How long

  250. does that word then the end will come? How much

  251. time expires? Because I guarantee you the Lord's not gonna stutter,

  252. He's not going to try to confuse you. He will

  253. come right out and tell you because he's the Lord,

  254. God of Host, and he really don't care if you

  255. know we're not because there's nothing you can do about it.

  256. So let's read verse eight. And their dead bodies will

  257. lie in the street of the great city, which is

  258. spiritually called Sodom in Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

  259. Then those from the people's tribes, tongues, and nations will

  260. see their dead bodies three and a half days and

  261. will not allow their dead bodies to be put in graves.

  262. And those who dwel on the earth will rejoice over them,

  263. make marry and send gifts to one another, because those

  264. two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. Do

  265. you understand it? Now here? Just for good measure, we'll

  266. go back and read it one more time, because God

  267. was not stuttering. And this gospel of the Kingdom will

  268. be preached in all the world as a witness to

  269. all nations. And after three and a half days the

  270. end will come. Here, let me finish the first and

  271. then the end will come. The end of the tribulation

  272. is what event? Can anybody tell me what terminates the

  273. one thousand turn of sixty days? What terminates it? Will

  274. somebody say something? Don't lie to yourself and say you

  275. don't know what ends the great Tribulation? Wow, your old dumbfounded.

  276. It's the Return of Christ. Yes it is. It always was, Jamie.

  277. It says that you raise your hand. Do you want

  278. to say something? You want to talk about something? Yes,

  279. we can. Sorry, that was way earlier than the two

  280. in this question. Okay, well ask the question. No, No,

  281. that was it. I had a comment then, but it's fine.

  282. Thank you. You're welcome. Anybody else want to say anything.

  283. Stop the bus, you know, because sometimes the driver has

  284. to stop the bus, put it in park and turn

  285. around and discuss things with the class. Are all of

  286. you reeling right now or something.

  287. I'm getting very frustrated because I looked at this well

  288. as extensive as extensively as I can in my the

  289. way that I think, and I kept seeing well, Lampstan's churches,

  290. I know, I looked at the Olive the Olive branches

  291. whatever it says right there also, and I know I

  292. found some very interesting stuff there. For some reason, my

  293. brain is locked and I just can't get there. But

  294. I have looked at this, and looked at this, and

  295. looked at this, and there is a lot of very

  296. fascinating stuff there. When I started looking at some of

  297. the churches, of course, athesis stuck out, and there was

  298. a second church that also talked about their lamp stand

  299. or something something very similar to that, and I just

  300. can't remember, I can't find my notes.

  301. Well one, thanks for sure. These witnesses obviously come from

  302. a church that just sent everybody into a tail spin again,

  303. didn't it? Okay, what makes you think that the two

  304. witnesses would be anybody other than Christian? Just look, there's

  305. only seven different types of churches. Do not be misled.

  306. There's only seven different types of churches, okay, And the

  307. Bible is actually very clear as to what those churches are.

  308. It's really very clear. You need to write down this list.

  309. Number one is the persecuted church. Number two is the

  310. compromising church. Number three is the corrupt church. Am I

  311. getting everybody's attention? The faithful church, the lukewarm church. You're

  312. concentrating on names. You need to understand that I can

  313. see way past well, I can see the names themselves,

  314. But you need to understand that. I don't know why

  315. you're thinking that the two witnesses would not come from

  316. a church, because christ Church has been established. So they're

  317. not Muslims, Okay, they're not too Buddhist Okay, So of

  318. course God would leave you clues to let you know

  319. that very thing. And that's what Sherry was seeing. So

  320. let's get back on track here. Maybe we need to

  321. talk about this. Kenneth, what say you? Up until this point?

  322. What are you thinking?

  323. So I just keep going back to verse seven where

  324. it says it's in verse seven, Chapter eleven Revelations says

  325. when they finished their testimony, and and before that it

  326. says they had they had they had the power to

  327. shut up heaven and earth, and no rain fell for

  328. days of their prophecy.

  329. So if they did that, everyone.

  330. In the world would know, right, right, someone is, someone

  331. is doing this, So it had to be attributed to somebody.

  332. Somebody didn't, right, you know. And so that's what's going

  333. on in my head.

  334. Absolutely, and we already determined this must be more than

  335. two people, must be more than two people, And well.

  336. Why wouldn't why wouldn't they be together? Because Christ sent

  337. them mountain by twos.

  338. That's right, that's right. He sent seventy of them out

  339. by two, right, yes.

  340. He said, yeah, or seventy two.

  341. He sent seventy out by two, Yes he did. I

  342. can read the Greek. Yes he did he sent seventy

  343. pairs out?

  344. Matthew?

  345. So now, yes, sorry, didn't mean to interrupt.

  346. So there's the olive trees that are olive branches too,

  347. And what just keeps coming to me? And I wish

  348. I could find my notes. It's two sets of twins.

  349. What do you mean by two sets of twins? You

  350. mean four?

  351. Yeah, you have the lamp stands and you have the

  352. two olive trees. That's right, And so I think it's

  353. two groups, but consisting of two different parts.

  354. I'd absolutely agree. Okay, I'd absolutely agree. Let me ask

  355. everybody something. So who did Judas go out with? Let's

  356. get down to you know, let's get down to the

  357. meat and potatoes. Riddle me. Who went out with judis

  358. because somebody did this narrative. There are so many things

  359. in this narrative that you should be able to quickly

  360. come to an understanding. And if it's quite right, they

  361. had to have been beheaded. This group must be the

  362. only group it can be, must be the only people

  363. who can't take the mark of the beast. They can't

  364. take the mark of the beast. Why can't they take

  365. the mark of the beast?

  366. Because they were sealed that's right.

  367. Revelation, Chapter seven, verse two. Then I saw another angel

  368. of sending out of the east, having to seal of

  369. the Living God. And he cried with a loud voice

  370. to the four angels to whom it was granted to

  371. harm the earth and the sea, saying, do not harm

  372. the earth, the sea, or the trees. Do we have

  373. sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads. You

  374. can't killow an angel is required to kill them. And

  375. then how an angel does it is by beheading them.

  376. So the number here given right, the number here given

  377. is one hundred and forty four thousand. Has anybody done

  378. the math? Has anybody never just sat down and just

  379. did the math?

  380. Because it's seventy two thousand, seventy two thousand airs of witnesses?

  381. How much time is went by? How much time I

  382. got left? Not enough, that's for sure. We could go

  383. through this entire narrative, and I could show you all

  384. kinds of threads. How many of you knit, how many

  385. of you crochet? Right now, my wife is crocheting me

  386. a purple afghan. It will be a gift for whichever

  387. holiday happens after she's completed. So it could be Christmas.

  388. If she's not done, it'll be my birthday. It's not

  389. my birthday, it'll be Father's Day. Do you know what

  390. you do to all the ends, all those loose ends

  391. at the end of the row. Now many of you,

  392. if you've never watched somebody crochet and afgrin, you don't

  393. know what I'm talking about. But all those ends have

  394. to be woven back into the outcat. Yes they do.

  395. And there's so many loose ends in this text that

  396. is pointing you to this narrative. It's ridiculous. I mean,

  397. how hard is it to figure out how the beast

  398. that descends from the bottomless pitt kills them? When it

  399. comes right out and tells you later that they were beheaded,

  400. Why would you wonder when it was they were killed?

  401. When Christ plainly come out and told you that the

  402. witnesses they would become martyrs and the end would come.

  403. This was the whole reason why you told you they

  404. celebrated for three and a half days. Doesn't take a

  405. rocket scientist to figure this out. This is what happens.

  406. They can't be killed, so they're put into custody. From Timbucto,

  407. from Paris, France, everywhere and they're all sent to the

  408. capital city and do exactly what Diocletian did. They're all brought.

  409. Just exactly what happened, Yes with Nebulkaner, I mean surely

  410. I'm forgotten that, right.

  411. Look, the image of the beast is a nicer chronal event,

  412. Yes it is, Yes it is. It's just a repeat

  413. of Nebuknezzar's image that he forced everybody to bout out

  414. in worship. So where do you think this is? We'll deceit?

  415. Who'll bewitched you into thinking there's more than one image

  416. of the beast because they have, haven't you? They have

  417. you deceived into thinking that it's Ai and it's on

  418. a video screen right.

  419. Book.

  420. They're going to be taken into custody because they can't

  421. be killed. If the people that have six sixty six

  422. on them might to kill them, they get nuked. So

  423. they're taken into custody in their town squares and transported

  424. to the capital city. Guess where the capital city of

  425. the false prophet is? If you need a hint, it's

  426. because you ain't got a clue. You've been busy entertaining

  427. yourself to death. You've entertained yourself to death. There is

  428. only a one image of the beast, just one. But yet

  429. it jazes me when I talk to Christians about oh yeah,

  430. there's yeah, the mark of the beast and the images

  431. of technology. Right, Kenneth, let's ask Ken? Can I pick

  432. on you Ken?

  433. Right?

  434. Sure?

  435. So tell me, Kenneth. You know what happened when never

  436. Knezer's image?

  437. Right?

  438. Everybody had to bow down and worship the image except

  439. somebody didn't, right, Yes, And what happened to them? How

  440. did the people try to kill them? Don't hesitate? I

  441. know that you know. Answer me.

  442. I tried to put them in the fiery furnace.

  443. That's why the Lord God has a sense of humor. Yes,

  444. is the only way that the people with the mark

  445. of the beast are going to get killed. God has

  446. a sense of humor, so he makes it so with

  447. you try to kill them, you go into a fiery furnace.

  448. Do you get it?

  449. Yes?

  450. Do you understand it now? Yes? I understand it. From

  451. the beginning, the beginning of these prophecies is the image

  452. of Nenezzar. Yes it is, Yes, it is. Don't lie,

  453. yes it is. It's not a technology. Okay, it's not

  454. that big screen in Times Square. Don't lie, you know

  455. the one I'm talking about, Ladies and gentlemen. These things

  456. are true. The Book of Revelation is not some fantasy,

  457. science fiction novel. God says everything in it to explain

  458. to you the other things that he's told you about

  459. it before. I don't understand. If the two witnesses have

  460. such a magnificent force, why did you think they would

  461. not be in Matthew chapter twenty four. So you actually

  462. thought in your brain that Jesus Christ would not tell

  463. his own disciples of what was to come, because that's

  464. what they were asking him. Now, the disciples must have

  465. been set in their scratching their head, well, how is

  466. this gospel going to go over the whole planet? They

  467. didn't know how it was going to happen. But guess

  468. what you all do? And the problem is you let

  469. the entertainment industry confuse you. And I think those who

  470. raised me for never permitting that to happen to me.

  471. I mean, it's like you can imagine my surprise. I

  472. was playing skip bow with my fellow roommates, and of course,

  473. of course the first time that Rashashana comes around and

  474. they start talking about the rapture around the skip bow table.

  475. Let me start talking about a preacher rapture. You just

  476. imagine what's going through your mind, Like, what are they

  477. talking about. I'll never forget their reaction the first time,

  478. because Matthew, don't play, I don't lie. You're not worth

  479. going to hell over. Never forget the look on Randy's face.

  480. I said, man, who's bewitched you? So let me get

  481. this right. You're going to be a preacher. You're here

  482. to get your ministerial license, and you have no clue

  483. what the Bible says. Randy was offended and he didn't

  484. last two years in the pulpit. That's the fact. That's

  485. a tragic fact. But so we have to understand it that,

  486. of course the two witnesses would beat would be in

  487. Matthew chapter twenty four. Of course, the Lord, the whole

  488. purpose of Matthew twenty four was Jesus with telling his

  489. own disciples what was to come. And all you have

  490. to do is just just compare the two texts because

  491. it's God speaking. So look, have you ever sat down

  492. and actually read Revelation chapter thirteen without looking or listening

  493. to the entertainment industry? This is elementary reading. This is

  494. not difficult at all. I mean, let's read verse five. Okay,

  495. this is this is not rocket science, man, it's not.

  496. And he was given them out speaking great things and blasphemies,

  497. and he was given authority to continue for forty two months.

  498. So at the end of forty two months, Jesus comes back.

  499. Yes he does.

  500. All who dwell on the earth will worship him whose

  501. names have not been written in a book of life

  502. of the lamb who was slain from the foundation of

  503. the world. Let's look at this verse fourteen, and he

  504. deceives those who dwew in nearth by those signs which

  505. he was granted to deal with the sight of the beast,

  506. telling those who dwell in the earth to make an

  507. image to the beast who was wounded by the sword

  508. and yet lived. This is absolutely not difficult in Greek.

  509. It's not. With the tool that we have today, it's

  510. very easy because the image here Greek is very exacting,

  511. and I assure you it's in the singular case. So

  512. I'm good if somebody has convinced you that it's going

  513. to be on a big screen. But if it is

  514. on a big screen, it can only be on one

  515. big screen, and you it should at least know that

  516. big screen has to be in the city where Jesus

  517. was crucified. So you have to understand that Satan's primary

  518. job is to disconnect you from what is to come,

  519. because this is the guarant the Holy Spirit once you've

  520. been born again. John Chapter sixteen, Verses twelve through fifteen

  521. emphatically states the proof of you being born again is

  522. the Holy Spirit will show you what's the good. The

  523. Holy Spirit will show you the apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

  524. Do you know what the apocalypse of Jesus Christ is,

  525. I'll tell you. You didn't know, I'll tell you right now.

  526. He is acting as your high priest. Yes he is,

  527. Yes he is. There's going to come a time when

  528. God the Father will issue a decreed to vifurcate the kingdom. Well,

  529. split it in two, doth say it the Lord? Then

  530. the apocalypse of Jesus Christ is that he will be coronated,

  531. because once God the Father bifurcates the kingdom, he makes

  532. Jesus the coregent. Yes he does. Then the apocalypse of

  533. Jesus Christ is that he will have to make his

  534. divine procession from the father's capital city to his own

  535. capital city. At his arrival, he marries his queen and

  536. exterminates his enemies. Then the apocalypse of Jesus Christ is

  537. that he will rule and reign in his capital city

  538. for a thousand years. I'll stop right there. I challenge

  539. you today that the Bible is true. I know that

  540. your preachers and your teachers have convinced you that it's

  541. not true. But I'm telling you that it is true.

  542. And I am here telling you that the Two Witnesses

  543. fulfill Matthew chapter twenty four, verse fifteen. And there's only

  544. one way this can be done. Because the Muslims would

  545. kill them, the Buddhist would kill them. You know that

  546. this is no secret. That's why I'm provoked to say

  547. Stu has bewitched you. I mean, how did you not

  548. know this? How could you not know? How could you

  549. not know that that's the purpose the Two Witnesses serve

  550. that the two Witnesses, these seventy two thousand different dynamic duos,

  551. do this to the whole planet. But the townspeople can't

  552. kill them, so they take them into custody and ship

  553. them off to the capital city. When their message is done,

  554. they get killed, then the end will come. So how

  555. long are they dead? Three and a half days Matthew

  556. Chapter twenty four, verse fourteen. And this gospel of the

  557. Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a

  558. witness to all nations, and then the end will come.

  559. The preaching is ended by the beast that descends from

  560. the bottomless.

  561. Pit, beheading them.

  562. Guess when all this starts. Listen to the very I

  563. bet Jesus Christ is getting ready to tell his disciples

  564. when all this starts. I bet you he will verse fifteen. Therefore,

  565. when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by

  566. Daniel the prophet standing in the Holy Place, whoever reads,

  567. let him understand who could have bewitched you into believe

  568. in something else? So anyway, so let's guss Kenneth again. So, Kenneth,

  569. who do you think?

  570. So?

  571. So it's so it's either Elijah and Moses or Enoch

  572. in Elijah right. So it's Elijah, right, So who do

  573. you think the two witnesses are?

  574. Uh?

  575. Oh, Kenneth left, That ain't gooting.

  576. Sorry, sorry I dropped out, dropped me.

  577. So did you hear my question?

  578. I did not.

  579. So, with all this information, who do you think the

  580. two witnesses are? Is that Moses and Elijah or Enoch

  581. in Elijah? One thing we do know earlier Sherry brought

  582. up the two witnesses, and God states emphatically that the

  583. two witnesses at that time of the building of the

  584. Second Temple was the Rubbable and Joshua. They were living

  585. people at the time, weren't they, Kenneth, Yes, yes, yes,

  586. And they had their time to live, didn't they?

  587. You know?

  588. Matthew twenty four says a whole lot more about this,

  589. this idea of the time of the two witnesses. But anyway,

  590. what time are we at now?

  591. Oh?

  592. I'm in overdrive. I'm a minute pasted.

  593. Okay.

  594. Any questions or comments or does anybody want to yell

  595. at me and sent me straight by all means anything,

  596. anybody wants to talk about? Nope, going once, going twice?

  597. Okay.

  598. So I keep getting this remembrance pop up in me

  599. about the two witnesses in verse eleven or chapter eleven,

  600. verse seven says when they finish their testimony, And for

  601. some reason, it keeps bringing me back to Hebrews chapter nine,

  602. verse sixteen, For where there is a testament, there must also,

  603. of necessity be the death of a test stator, for

  604. a testament is in force after men are dead, since

  605. it has no power while their testator lives. So it

  606. seems to me if that is works out in this

  607. same situation, in this case, that their death is more

  608. powerful than their witness was. Say that again, their death

  609. was made more powerful than their witness was their testimony was.

  610. But that's exactly what Revelation chapter eleven states. Yes it does, okay,

  611. it says what happens after they died. What happens.

  612. Now?

  613. After three and a half days, the breath of life

  614. from God entered them, and they stood on their feet,

  615. and great fear fell on those who saw them. And

  616. they heard a loud voice from heaven saying, come up here.

  617. And they offended into Heaven in a cloud, and their

  618. enemies saw them.

  619. Amen.

  620. What you have quoted from Hebrews chapter nine, starting in

  621. verse sixteen, that's screw.

  622. Praise God, okay.

  623. Because they couldn't kill them, right, they wouldn't listen to them.

  624. They refused to repent, and then they saw this, and

  625. this was a greater testimony than anything that come out

  626. of their mouth. Because these God haters got to see

  627. their witnesses. Now take note scrutinized the Greek. Here they

  628. saw their two witnesses ascended to heaven. I don't think

  629. I know what it says. I know what it says.

  630. I don't have reservations about what it might say. I've

  631. written this in the original tongue. I've written it, so

  632. I know what it says. So why don't you read

  633. from Hebrews Chapter nine again just to make sure it's

  634. driven home as to why these witnesses ascend into heaven.

  635. Read it force again, please.

  636. So nine starting in verse sixteen.

  637. For where there is a testament, there must also, of

  638. necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament

  639. is in force after men are dead, since it has

  640. no power at all. While the test stator lives.

  641. And not the three. At the end of the three

  642. and a half days, what happens, I'll tell you what happens.

  643. Christ comes down, That's what happens. So I hope you

  644. learned something tonight, everybody, because once you once you see it,

  645. you can't unsee it. Let me say that again, once

  646. you see it, you can unsee it. You also need

  647. to know this in the narrative. You have to put

  648. the two narratives together of matth you and Luke. The

  649. twelve are sent out two by two and then the

  650. seventy are commissioned and sent out later. But you have

  651. to interweave God's word to make it hold. So anyway,

  652. anything that anybody else wants to talk about, well, I

  653. have just kind of questioned.

  654. I guess so the way that you said it, and

  655. then being dead in the street for three and a

  656. half days and then being raised back up, and everybody's

  657. made very afraid by that, and this is probably totally

  658. not right, but it made me think of Elijah and

  659. the draw bones.

  660. And why is that?

  661. Because that's what happened, that dead came back to lice.

  662. Because that's what happened. You're that's exactly what happens. So yes,

  663. I would hope that it would draw your mind.

  664. There it should Okay, Thanks, yep, anybody else going once,

  665. going twice, third times?

  666. A charm?

  667. Okay, who's going to pray us out of here? Wow?

  668. I can thank you, Sherry.

  669. You're welcome. Father, Thank you so much for your word.

  670. Thank you for this man who has been willing to

  671. spend the better part of his life, sharing this truth

  672. with everybody who will listen. I'm grateful him and all

  673. that he does. Ask your Father to bless him and

  674. his family see to their needs. I thank you in advance,

  675. Father for your goodness towards them. I ask you to

  676. be with all of us as we go through the week,

  677. and those who are listening as well, draw us closer

  678. to you, Father, into a deeper and more abiding relationship

  679. with you. Woo list unto yourself and help us to

  680. live lives that are pleasing to you. In all ways

  681. cause us to willing to do with your good pleasure.

  682. We ask these things in the mighty name of Jesus.

  683. Amen, Amen and amen. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen,

  684. God bless, God speed.