Two Witnesses In Revelation

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to today's episode of Walk With Me. I am your host, JJ. So good to have each and every one of you here. And I'm so thankful for each and every one of you people who listen to download, to share, to comment, all the questions, and uh everything that you guys send me. I really do appreciate it. I thank you so much for sharing this podcast. Um, looks like we may be able to go up on our time a little bit, thanks to all of you. Because you know these things are uh pretty much allocated based on listenerships and likes and comments and things like that. So we may end up being able to get more than one special episode a month. I am excited, and it's all as a thanks to you, and I I thank God for each and every one of you. Big shout out to our sponsors, true bars lyricist and squizz creations. And I'm not sure what just happened there, but here we go, we're back on. Um, Squizzit Creations for the swag, which she's making, we're making some dominoes now. I'm really excited about that. And um sorry, true bars lyrics with the intro and the outro. Uh, and we're just gonna get right into it because we have a lot to cover today. So, if you've been following the podcast, please understand that the reason why we even had the we're having this series of end-time Bible studies is because there's so much deception going on in regards to this subject. And it's please understand, I I this is not like I feel like I cornered the market on this. This is all in the Bible, not making any of this stuff up, but it's amazing how much stuff is made up, and some of it I will stipulate that um is it's made up because people are not reading the Bible, and they're kind of inserting, they're plugging things in and into things that they don't understand, and that's uh pretty much the human mind that does that. Um, if you don't, and and this is why we actually created science. So uh basically you you see something, you don't understand it, you come up with a a theory, we call it science. Back then they called it myth, and then you sought out to either let it rock as a religion, or you or you uh sought to prove it as a method of science, where you you saw it and uh you thought about it, and clear me with a theory, and then all of a sudden this is your hypothesis, and then this is a proven scientific fact after many tests and so forth and so on. But it this same process is what we do sometimes in Bible things or things of God that we don't really understand. Um, we and and I'm I'm trying, I'm going to say that a vast majority of this is not people intentionally trying to mislead others. But you get something on social media, and next thing you know, people are quitting their jobs and and selling their kids, and and and this it's all a tragic thing when they find out that the person was not truthful with them or what they said was not being truthful. And yes, I do understand there are people out there who are miserable and only seek to deceive people, and kind of laugh when all these people had all of these uh problems because they fell for the what we call the okie do, right? But that's and then some people started asking me questions about this, so I said, okay, let's start this. And and we are we are well into we I I want to say we're I say we're about only about 70% through uh this Bible study, but I thank you all for your patience. I just want to go slow and make sure we cover everything that the Bible says, and not I really don't care what JJ says, I don't care what Bishop, Dr. Deacon, Apostle, Evangelist says. It all depends on what the Bible says, right? All right, so that being said, we're gonna get right into it. Now, if you've noticed, um, I've been really sort of focusing so far on uh, especially for the last few months now, um I've been focusing, I've been focusing on what happens to the planet uh during the tribulation, right? I've been sort of focusing on um all of the things that like the vile judgments and the trumpet judgments and bold judgments and all of these things. Now we may we will come back to that, but I want to spend some time today and maybe even next week on some of the characters that we will see during the tribulation. Now keep in mind the Bible does say that some of these characters will not be revealed until after the rapture when they talk about the son of perdition. But I don't want to get ahead of myself. So we're gonna talk about there are gonna be seven characters. People say personages, I say characters, right? Seven, there are gonna be seven main characters that are are going to be crucial in the tribulation. By the tribulation, I mean the end time, right? And what I want you to do um is we're gonna pretty much start in Revelation 11, chapter 11 through chapter 13. We're gonna talk about a lot of these, okay? Now, these chapters, uh Revelation 11, 11, 12, and 13, um, they're they're chapters that are gonna explain really what happens during the first chapter of the tribulation, and then what will happen during the last last half of the tribulation, or what people call the great tribulation. And with the blowing of that seventh trumpet, we actually only reach the middle part of the tribulation period. If you read chapter 11 and verse 15, and that is a very key verse because it says, The kingdom of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of this Christ, he shall reign forever and ever. Now, although the fact of Christ ain't controlled the kingdoms in this world will not take place for another three and a half years, there's that is the pronouncement that occurs right there at 11 and 15. And um, it's going to be that there's gonna be a really dark period, it's gonna be one of the darkest periods um in Israel's history, and this is gonna be when the beast is assuming power, the Antichrist is gonna be running rampant, and uh the end result is going to be renounced announced right here, okay. And this final result, I need y'all to be very clear on something. This final result is not a doubt, is there is no doubt on it. There is no uh once once this ball starts rolling, there is this inexorable, inexorable. It is absolutely inexorable. It's it's going to happen, it's inevitable, right? And the other thing to remember is Jesus is the conquering king, he will reign forever and ever. And um, we're actually doing a uh we're actually preparing a message on the concept of eternity, and it's it's it's very daunting to think about, right? Especially if you don't go to the right place or to the to the better place, you know, if you don't go to heaven, it's eternity is a is a very wild thing to think about. Now, in in this uh sequence of events that take place during the middle middle of the tribulation, now here's what we're actually reduced and introduced to these uh seven characters, and each of these characters is gonna take a very significant part of history. Now, these the first five that we're gonna talk about are the two witnesses, the red dragon, the woman clothed with the sun, the man-child, and the two beasts. Technically, that is seven, right? So you got two beasts, one, two, I mean two witnesses, two witnesses, not two beasts, two witnesses, the red dragon, the woman clothed with the sun, the man-child, and the two beast. Now, this is and uh and this is gonna start, and we're gonna start uh the first five characters we're going to we're gonna try to do first, and then we're gonna do the two beasts uh that will come in last, right? So uh the Revelation 11 is gonna start with that statement in regarding the that the temple is is going to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. And the location of this temple is definitely gonna be known because it's gonna be where the holy city and it will come under siege and it'll be attacked and beaten down for 42 months. Now, and the in the middle of the tribulation, this temple will be built in Jerusalem, and that's where the Antichrist will be. He's he's not running around now, he's not selling you girls cloud cookies, he's not he's not hanging up effigies in in town in Times Square. The Antichrist will not be revealed until that temple is rebuilt, and this is where we have a lot of problems because everybody wants to identify the Antichrist now. And I am one of these people, so let's let's keep it 100. Just keep it real. I I like ooh, that could be the Antichrist, that could be the Antichrist. The Bible says he will not be revealed till A, the rapture happens, B, that temple is rebuilt. So whoever it is we think it is, it probably isn't right now. When that and the reason why he's going to be um revealed then, because he's going to claim the right to be worshiped. He will or she, we don't know, but that that character will claim the right to be worshiped, not to be a political figure to worship something else or someone else. They are going to claim to be the they're gonna claim to be Jesus. So that and when you think about that right there, that really makes sense as to why it won't happen until after the rapture. Because everybody who missed the rapture is is going to be feeling some kind of way, and people who um who thought they were gonna make the rapture and they don't make the rapture, they are really gonna be looking for something to hope for. So this guy or or this character is going to now appear and demand to be worshiped. But 2 Thessalonians uh 2 and 4 says, Who opposes and exalting himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that as he as God sitteth in the temple of God, not in heaven, in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Now, this is that uh abomination of desolation that we read about in Daniel, um Daniel 9 and 2. And oh, by the way, we gotta cover our rules on this podcast. Um, I'm going through kind of fast, I'm only reading a few of the scriptures, but the rule of the podcast is when you listen to and this podcast, and we have a scripture. Um, you read a verse or two above or the verse or two below, but preferably the whole chapter. Why? Because context is key, and as a matter of fact, we may end up starting having a uh what they call a concordance requirement, too, because that is very important. But let's start off with just making sure we read the entire chapter, and it's it's good because we we make sure that we get our Bible reading in, and it makes us more difficult to deceive. We don't want to be deceived because deceived people are lost, and lost people go to hell, and then that's not where we want to go. We are walking toward Jesus Christ, that's why I want you to walk with him. I like the way that kind of worked out. But remember now, back to where we are talking about here, Daniel 9 and 2, the abomination of desolation. This is gonna be this religious system that this person is going to set up, and it's gonna be connected to the new rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. Now, some people have theories that this Antichrist or this uh abomination of desolation will have to be Jewish because Jews won't worship anyone. I don't know. I mean, that's a good theory. I don't know. Um, so I'm just gonna stick with what the Bible says, and if I have an opinion, I'll just tell you this is JJ's opinion, or out of the book of JJ, right? Now, but this 11th chapter of Revelation poses with a very significant statement that the temple of God was opened in heaven. Now, the one thing to note here is that the Ark of the Testament is seen if if the temple of God is open in heaven, then you're gonna see the Ark of the Testament now, and that is going to show that God's covenant with Israel in the midst of a judgment scene is gonna be described as lightning voices and earthquakes and great hail, and the judgment will come, but all of these things that we talked about, the lightnings and all that, Israel's going to be spared of these things. So it's it's gonna kind of be like um when uh in Exodus, when Egypt was having all these problems, they didn't let you know children of Israel go. Like half of the plague, half of the plagues did not even affect Israel. Like when they had the plague of darkness, it was light over in Israel. Like they had sunups and sundowns. Their lights worked, their candles worked, their uh fires worked in their homes, in their fireplaces. Meanwhile, in in uh Egypt, in the Egypt section of their of the country, they couldn't even light a fire. Like it's it's very it's it's very um heavy to sort of think about, but I don't want to get off into that. That's a completely different subject, and I know someone's gonna ask a question, which I appreciate. I love questions. Matter of fact, if you do have a question or comment, uh hit me up at walkwithme bible study at gmail. Walk with me bible study at gmail. I'm sorry I didn't mention that in the beginning, but let's keep going. So we're gonna talk about these two witnesses, right? Now, during the first half of the tribulation, there are gonna be two things that are going to show up. Um, they're really going to speak and preach God's message. Now, how will we know them? Because they're gonna wear sackcloth, which declares a which is a symbol of a need for repentance, um, and they will be killed by the beast. We will see them killed on by the beast. And this is how people will really begin to start worshiping the beast because they're going to send gifts, because the two these two witnesses are not gonna be preaching um faith, faith, everything's okay, you're gonna be okay, and um just worship to get money. That's that's not what's gonna be the message of these two witnesses. What's going to be the message of these witnesses is that you must repent. You still have an opportunity to repent. Now, I don't know. This is where a lot of people will say that, hey, after the rapture, you can still be saved. I don't know. I I I tend to think that you're right playing a Russian roulette there, but if they're preaching repentance, you can you may be able to still repent and be saved. Okay, but you won't just won't get the Holy Ghost. And I don't know if how how that works with the book of life. So um, we're gonna discuss that. So I that's just me. Now, so after again, after these two witnesses are killed, people are gonna be rejoicing and sending gifts, and oh my god, this this great guy is so wonderful, and we're gonna worship him. And and and the reason why is because they're going to not have that condemnation being preached at them 24-7-365. You know, you see the church now, you can't really preach against stuff anymore because people don't like. Oh, you judgey, oh you you're being mean to me, and this condemnation will torment. And uh, and people start to hate preachers that that really teach the entire Bible. Oh, Jesus, okay, hallelujah, amen. But nothing about, you know, idolatry is wrong, and fornication is a sin, and homosexuality is bad, and these things to get you burning in hell. Like nobody wants to hear that. Well, not nobody, but you're here, but um, a lot of people just don't want to hear that anymore. They just want a feel-good message every Sunday, they want a motivational stuff. Like a I don't want to say Joel Oldsteam, some of you guys listen to him, but that's that's kind of what this that is. Now, these two witnesses are also referred to as olive trees, and then two candlesticks uh standing before God. And and if you uh ever read Zechariah chapter 4, verse 2 and 3, that's where we start seeing these two terms: two olive trees and two candlesticks. And these witnesses are gonna have a lot of power given to them, they're gonna spit fire, they're gonna kill their enemies, because people are going to try to kill them before their due time, and he's going, and these two witnesses are going to kill them, and they're gonna have power to stop rain, they're gonna send plagues. Um, but after they preach for three and a half years, they are going to be killed. That's what I mean by they won't be able to be killed before their time, right? Once that three and a half um year period comes and goes, they're gonna it's gonna be they're gonna be open to be killed. And they are only going to, it's gonna take them that long, and and this is a thing that's really a thing of beauty, it's gonna take them that long to finish their testimony. They are literally, I I believe, as this is out of the book of JJ, uh I believe they're going to be speaking non-stop for three and a half years because it just makes sense, because everybody's the world's 24 hours, it might be midnight here, maybe noon over there. So they're going to be speaking non-stop for three and a half years, and they're going to be talking repentance, repentance, repentance, repentance, but they cannot be killed until they are finished with that message. This is not gonna be a hoke messiah, time I fired hyundai kind of message. No, they are going to really be in it of all the things that we should be repentant. And the thing is that the Bible says that after they are killed, even the authorities won't even will not even allow their bodies to be buried. And it's going to be pretty much a PR move. Look, we killed these guys, and you should you should worship the stronger side. And you know how propaganda is. We see it is we see it now every day. People that you would never have thought that would have been uh susceptible to propaganda. Now uh you see it, you see how easy it is to for it to work, and they're gonna leave these bodies laying out there for three and three days. Actually, gonna be three and a half, three and a half days, does that make sense? All right, so and after three and a half days, these two witnesses that you saw killed on TV, because it and I and it makes sense because God is gonna want everyone to see people, these characters, these two witnesses killed. And there is there's a big debate, and and the reason why I'm not mentioning in names, it's a big debate on who that is. Um, I believe, I believe it's gonna be the two people that was never killed in the Bible, but that's another Bible study for another time. So um, I believe this it's gonna be the only two men in the Bible who've never died, and that's a big hit. That's who I believe is gonna be. So, um, after three and a half days, these men will be raised again. And because a voice is going to be heard saying, come up hither. And they're going to get up and they're going to ascend to heaven about the same way we saw Jesus go up. Well, the same way the disciples saw Jesus. And at that time, there are it's supposed to be an earthquake that will kill about 7,000 people. Now, in the grand scheme of things, an earthquake that kills 7,000 people will not even appear to be that bad. Because we just saw, we just saw, we went through how almost three-quarters of the earth population is going to be dead because of earthquakes and all that other stuff. So 7,000 men is going to be like a regular Tuesday. Now, now let's talk about who I think these witnesses are, but I just can't hold it. I believe that one of them will be Elijah. Why do I think that one of them will be Elijah? Because Elijah did not experience a physical death. You read 2 Kings chapter 2, 9 and 11. He was taken up in a world. And you had Elijah, you had Elijah. And Elisha was walking with Elijah, and he wasn't there anymore. And it's foretold in Malachi that Elijah would appear on earth to prepare the way of the Lord's second event. Now the other witness, um, the other witness is a little bit more okay. Wait, let me back up. Because it's another reason why I believe is the first one is going to be Elijah. Because Elijah did the same miracle about withholding rain for three and a half. See, God is not going to do something that's not going to confirm his word. And that's going to be a big thing. So I believe that's why I believe one of them is going to be Elijah. So uh if you read um read your Bible, you see where Elijah said it won't rain for three and a half years, and then boom, it didn't rain for three and a half years. So that's where I really believe Elijah's one. Now the second one, the second one, um, there's a little bit more uh debate about that. Some people think it's gonna be uh Moses. I do not think it's going to be Moses, and the reason why I don't think it's gonna be Moses because Enoch was not did not die. Enoch was also translated, but Moses did die, and the Bible says that uh it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment. So now now here's I'm gonna give you the counterargument to that too, and we'll wrap it up here. The counter-argument to that is well, these are glorified bodies, and then I'm gonna say, well, glorified bodies can't be killed, so and we're gonna clearly see that these two characters are killed. So I'm not sure about that, but in my opinion, my opinion, these two witnesses are going to be Enoch and Elijah, because those two people would never experience physical death in the Bible. Moses did die. Remember, Moses was God buried Moses. The Bible says that God buried because he was not allowed to enter the promised land, but he died after the rest of the children of Israel went in. That's that's another whole Bible stuff. We'll talk about at some point, but um, yeah, I I do believe it's gonna be Enoch and Elijah. And that being said, we're gonna wrap it up today. We are going to uh talk about the dragon next week, and then we'll get into some of the things that you're going to see, like the mark of the beast and all that kind of stuff. But we now we're getting into the human element of the great tribulation. If you didn't kind of pick that up, so we're gonna we're moving right along. I thank you all for liking, sharing, commenting. I I love your the emails that you send me. Uh please continue to do so. Even if you disagree, I I know some of you guys, some of you guys, hey, listen, I I really, really appreciate the effort that some of y'all put into these emails. Oh my god. But I listen, if I could, if if I could either um come into a little bit more truth, or help someone not received me. Listen, I love talking about myself. So yeah, I I love each and every one of you. Thank you all so much for listening, sharing, liking, commenting, emailing me, uh, questions, follow up questions. I love each and every one of you. Thank you, God. God bless you. See y'all in the next one.