Shincheonji, Who are the two witnesses of Revelation 11?

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Who are the two witnesses of Revelation 11?

= Two pastors who testifies and serve the Lord, One of them is like a reed and  betray later = 

[Shincheonji Church of Jesus, The Temple of the Tabernacle]

Witness means 'a person who testifies what he saw and heard at the scene'. Witnesses usually appear in court. That's because that person is the one who saw and heard the scene of the incident.

First, when you look at the full text of Revelation chapter 11, two witnesses who served the Lord become dead by the beast that is a destroyer and comes from the bottomless pit. And after three and a half days later, they come back to life with the spirit of life. Jesus said that if anyone wants to harm two witnesses, they'd be killed. After coming back to life,  they get to sound the final seventh trumpet. At the sound of the seventh trumpet, the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ(Rev. 11:15). The secret of God, resurrection and eternal life, will be fulfilled like the gospel delivered to the prophets(Rev. 10:7). 

We must know when and where the book of Revelation is fulfilled and people who appear in Revelation. The place where Revelation chapter 11 took place is not the whole world. It is the temple with Jesus at the time of the Second Coming of Jesus. If so, what did these two witnesses see and hear at the temple and what did they testify where it is? In Rev. 11:4, it says 'These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord.' Here, the Lord means Jesus. Two witnesses in the text means two shepherds who served the Spirit of Jesus and who saw and heard everything that happened at the Temple when the prophecy of the Book of Revelation was being fulfilled. 

Let's see the scene. In the tabernacle of seven golden lampstands preparing the path of the Lord in Rev. Chapter 1, seven angels and members of the church as stated in Rev. chapter 2-3 broke the covenant with God and betrayed. To turn them around, a letter of repentance was sent. 

They became one with the beast which has the seven heads and ten horns belonging to the great the mother of prostitutes. A church that started with the Holy Spirit became the devil's den. Two witnesses are the messengers who have a mission to testify what they see and hear at the scene sent by Jesus.

The mission of two witnesses can be viewed in two ways. In Rev. 11:3, it says 'I will give power to my two witnesses and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.". Sackcloth means the word to repent of dead acts. In the past, the people of Physical Israel used to lament when people are dead or to repent of sins wearing sackcloth. It tells not only to call for repentance but also to prophesy what's to come for 1260 days which is three and a half years to the members who were trampled by the Gentiles at the time of fulfillment of the Revelation.

Secondly, in Rev. 11:3-4, two witnesses are called two olive trees and two lampstands.

It means the one with the spirit of the lamp before the throne of God and missionary who enlighten the dark soul with the word of light. In Isaiah 5:7, God called the Jews a tree. In John 15, He called Jesus a true vine. So, the tree means a person.

About two live trees, when we look at Zechariah 4:2, in the Old Testament, Zechariah prophet saw a gold lampstand and saw the vision of two live trees which stand on the right and the left of the gold lampstand. Therefore, according to Zechariah 4:11-14, it is clearly written that the two olive trees before the Lord are two people who are anointed and consecrated to serve the Lord. In Rev. 11:10, it says two witnesses are called two prophets. As you get olive oil through the fruit of the olive tree, what can we get from the witnesses like an olive tree. That is the word of testimony. 

Two witnesses are the two shepherds testifying by Jesus who saw betrayer and destroyer at the temple of God which is the tent at the Second Coming of Jesus. At the Second Coming of Jesus, the person who received the revealed book in Rev. 10 and a person who acts as a reed as a cane called two witnesses. Like before, such as Adam, Moses and the First Coming of Jesus, one person betrayed God like Eve with a faith like a reed.

In Matthew 13, Jesus spoke of the secret of heaven in metaphor and he would tell us plainly when the time comes. New heaven and new earth can tell you the hidden secret through the promised pastor who testifies everything.

= the Word of God in the Old and New Testament, The Law and Prophecy or Old and New Testament = 

[Existing Denomination Baptist Church / Presbyterian Church]

 Baptist Church Pastor A

It explained that two witnesses were standing before God Jehovah, and they were wearing sackcloths and prophesying. These two witnesses are speaking the word of God, the Bible which is the Old and New Testament. When looking at verse 6, we can understand the Bible which is the word of the Lord. It lists what the Bible, the word of the Lord, did in the past. It says '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.'. Doesn't it list what is did with the word of the Lord?

When looking at Deut. 11:16-17, there is a power in the word of the Lord. When we break the word of the Lord, the land which broke has always been judged by the Lord. The Lord is patient. But we can see God's patience is limited. We can see the history of the Lord's judgment waking up and turning back.

Presbyterian Church Pastor B

At two olive trees and two lampstands, two olive trees are interpreted as the law, the prophet, (representing Moses and Elijah) Old Testament and New Testament. Two olive trees supplying ingredients to lampstands are the proper symbolization of the Old and New Testament. And, the lampstand is the model of Jewish Church of Christ. It is a figurative representation of the two witnesses' characteristics that will arise in the trouble.

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