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There has been a great deal of speculation concerning the identity of the two witnesses that testify about the glory of HaShem and His Son, Christ Yeshua (Jesus) during the tribulation period. Who are these special witnesses, and how will we recognize them? When will they appear?

When? Well the END times began when Satan exhausted his spiritual power (1946) attempting to scatter the power of the Holy People (the Jews) (Daniel 12:7). The END times began in the next year (1947). And in 1948, the fig tree, Israel, put forth new tender shoots or leaves (Mark 13:28-30). The witnesses begin their testimony as the generation alive when the fig tree put forth tender leaves begins to die out or during the last week of the seventy (Daniel 9:27) or the Great Tribulation.

Rev 11:1 A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.

Rev 11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

When you see plans underway to rebuild the Temple on its former site on the Holy Mount in Jerusalem, the sun and the moon will become witnesses to the glory of God, when for 3 ½ years they perform a number of unusual functions. This is the great and terrible DAY of the LORD!

Rev 11:3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Rev 11:4 These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.

Isa 13:9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

Isa 13:10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

Revelation 11:3 and Isaiah 13:10 are saying the same thing; the sun and moon are the two lamp stands, the two olive trees that produce the illuminating oil, they are the dual anointed ones who stand before the Lord of the Earth.

We learn more about these two witnesses in the Book of Zechariah. They are light givers with a relationship to the seven lamps in the temple of HaShem. Another way of saying who they are, is to say they are the two olive trees that produce the illuminating oil (the oil that lights the lamps) and they are the two lamp stands.

Zec 4:1 The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

Zec 4:2 He said to me, “What do you see?”

I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;

Zec 4:3 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.”

Zec 4:4 I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”

Zec 4:5 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”

I said, “No, my lord.”

Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

What does this cryptic clue mean? “Not by might or by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh of Armies (Lord of Hosts). It means that even the powerful planetary bodies are servants of HaShem and they will obey His commands (Joshua 10:12-14; Habakkuk 3:11).

Zec 4:11 Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?”

Zec 4:12 I asked him the second time, “What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?”

Zec 4:13 He answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?”

I said, “No, my lord.”

Zec 4:14 Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord^[1] of the whole earth.”

Literally, these are the couple or duality of the sun and moon, or the male to rule the day, female to rule the night; these two witnesses arise by the authority of or because of the Lord of the earth (Jeremiah 31:35; Psalm 147:4; Genesis 37:9; Job 9:7; Psalm 8:3; Psalm 148:3. Even the sun, moon, and stars are simply witnesses or servants of the glory of the Creator!

Rev 11:5 If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

Rev 11:6 These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

Rev 11:7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

The Lord, Christ Yeshua (Jesus), the Lamb of God who was slain (spiritually) from the foundation of the world, was also crucified in Sodom and Egypt (because of their great sin).

Rev 11:8 Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

Rev 11:9 From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

Rev 11:10 Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

After 3 ½ days (of one year each) they sun and moon return to life and their former brightness.

Rev 11:11 After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.

Rev 11:12 I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

What are your thoughts?