Alumbrados – The Illuminated

The two witnesses of God are always there, in every end-time book or teaching or movie.

Ask someone who the two witnesses are, and then ask them if the two witnesses are in Jerusalem when they prophesy, and you will discover whether that person is in truth or in error.

Most people do not know who the two witnesses are. Most people say it must be in the future, because they have not seen the two witnesses yet. And most people will accept any old story.

But these two witnesses are the most important to understand. We are warned to not ADD or TAKE anything away from the truth. It is a stern warning:

Revelation 22:

18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:    

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.   

I shudder when I think of the curse which follows all those end-time books and even movies which teach the wrong thing concerning these two witnesses.

The two witnesses are in Revelation Chapter 11 of the Christian Bible. The two witnesses are the witness of God TO THE GENTILES.

Why ? Why is it the witness to the Gentiles, and not to Israel?

1. In the previous chapter which leads into this one, John is told in Revelation 10:11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
2. It mentions the 42 month period (which is the 1260 day period). This is the last half of Daniel’s seventieth week.
3. It is the window of salvation for the Gentiles (Revelation 11:2)
4. It is the period that the woman (who represents Israel) flees from the dragon (Revelation 12:6)
5. It is the period of rule of the first Antichrist Beast (of Revelation chapter 13). This is the Antichrist beast to Israel, therefore Israel are not hearing the witness during this time. Revelation 11:2 …and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
6. Although the holy city is being tread under foot during this period, they are NOT IN JERUSALEM. They are NOT in the HOLY city of Revelation 11:2, they are in the GREAT city: Revelation 11:8 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 staked.
7. They stand before the God of the EARTH (Revelation11:4), and they smite the EARTH with all plagues (Revelation 11:6). Their witness is to the WHOLE EARTH.
8. The people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies… Revelation 11:9
9. …they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them… Revelation 11:10
10. This chapter leads into Judgment Day of the whole world in Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

So the two witnesses, is the witness of God to us. Do we say it is in Jerusalem, or it is in the future? This is error. If we take this lightly, and have the wrong understanding, we may be saying to God, that his witness to us is meaningless.

Let us beware that we do not do so.

The only one who can defeat the two witnesses of God is the BEAST …that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. Revelation 11:7

The Millennium

This is the very same beast which ascends out of the bottomless pit in Revelation Chapter 20 after the 1000 years are expired.

Therefore, the 42 months or 1260 days of God’s witness to the gentiles is also 1000 years, sometimes called the MILLENNIAL RULE OF CHRIST.

The 1000 years always means God’s DAY of Judgment.

2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.    8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.    9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.   

When we reign with Christ 1000 years it means, we escape the Judgment of God.

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.    7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,    

This is where the Beast kills the two witnesses:

Revelation 11:7 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.    

Revelation 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.    

Gog and Magog is the same Sodom and Egypt!

Revelation 11:

8 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 staked.  

9 And they of 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.    

10 And 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.    

Revelation 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.    

Revelation 11:

11 And 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.    

12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.    

Revelation 11:

13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.    

14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.    

15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in 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.  

Conclusion

The only way we can escape God’s judgment is if we escape from the Beast.

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

The Beast, therefore, is the only thing we shold be worried about, as Christians.

People who misunderstand the TWO WITNESSES do not think the beast is the most important thing to know about.

Some people say the two witnesses are in the future.

But do you know who the beast is? Then how can you escape from him?