Revelation 11:1-14
I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, "Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the worshipers there. 2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6 These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
11 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
13 At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon. (NIV)
- How long do the two witnesses preach?
- HINT: Revelation 11:3
- After the 3 1/2 years, or 1260 days, or 42 months, who kills them?
- HINT: Revelation 11:7
- When do they die relative to the destruction of the Beast as
found in Revelation 19:20?
- HINT: Revelation 11:7 & Revelation 13:5
- THEREFORE: They cannot die during the first 3 1/2 ears of Daniel's 70th week, because the Beast doesn't come before then.
- HINT: Revelation 11:14
- THEREFORE: They die before the end of the second woe.
- HINT: Revelation 12:12
- HINT: The seventh trumpet, which announces the coming of the Lord, also announces the start of the third woe.
- THEREFORE: They die before the end of the second woe, and before the sounding of the seventh trumpet.
- SO THEREFORE: If they can't have died in the first 3 1/2 years and they can't have died in the last 3 1/2 years, they must have dies AT the mid-point of Daniel's 70th week. This is at the time of the abomination that caused desolation sign.
- Facts we know occur at the 3 1/2 year point of Daniel's 70th
week.
- The abomination that caused desolation sign.
- The Lord's return.
- The catching-up of the church (rapture).
- The deliverance of the Woman (Revelation 12)
- The death of God's two witnesses.
- What happened at the time that God's two witnesses got to their feet after having been dead for 3 1/2 days?
- HINT: Notice in Revelation 11:12 that THEY heard a loud voice and not their enemies.
- NOTICE: What they hear in Revelation 11:12
- NOTICE: The reference to the cloud in Revelation 11:12
- HINT: 1 Thessalonians 4:16 loud command
- HINT: 1 Thessalonians 4:17 in the clouds
- HINT: Acts 1:9 cloud
- HINT: Acts 1:10-11
- HINT: We know when the church is gathered and we know when they die.
- Where are they when they die?
- HINT: Revelation 11:8
- After they are caught-up to be with the Lord forever, what happens
in the mind of the survivors?
- HINT: Revelation 11:11 terror
- HINT: Revelation 11:13 terrified and gave glory.
- Of those who gave glory to God, did they believe that Jesus was
the Messiah before the rapture?
- ANSWER: No, because they were left behind.
- Of those who gave glory to God, did they believe that Jesus was
the Messiah after the rapture?
- ANSWER: Yes, for they gave glory to God. Those two witnesses had been preaching Christ until the day of their death. Their standing on their feet and then ascending into heaven is a testimony of the truth of their words to any with the heart to believe.
- Those that gave glory to God are identified where else in Scripture?
- HINT: Revelation12:1-2, 5-6, 13-16
- HINT: Zechariah 14:4-8
- HINT: Revelation 7:1-8
- HINT: Revelation 14:1-5 note location
