Summary so far
So, there are two witnesses, and they are Moses and Elijah. They prophesy and preach for about 3.5 years. They’re going to help out the children of Israel during the persecution of the Antichrist. The Antichrist resurrects himself from the dead, and when he raises himself from the dead, he kills these two witnesses, so eventually, he’s able to get his vengeance. When the two witnesses die, they don’t even bury their bodies. They just let them lie out on the streets. Revelation 11:8 says that “their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,” so then the question is which great city is this referring to? The great city refers to Jerusalem. Revelation 11:2 talks about that temple on the earth, and verse 2 calls it the holy city. The city that’s called holy city with the temple and an altar has to be Jerusalem.
Spiritually called 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 crucified.”
“which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,”
Notice that because it is so wicked that spiritually, it is called Sodom and Egypt.
For example, the system of Catholicism did not start during the early 80s or the first centuries. This system started back in the Old Testament. Why? Because we’re looking at the spirit.
Remember back in Revelation 2 and 3, how we explained about Jezebel, Balaam, and Balak, that it all refers to the Catholic system?
Why is that? You can’t look at the name ‘Catholic,’ ‘Balaam,’ or ‘Balak,’ you got to look at the spirit behind it, and you’ll see that all of them have the same thing in common. That’s why you got to pay attention when God says ‘spiritually called’ because there is an evil spirit that possesses it, that results in that kind of city, there’s a spiritual influence. There could be a spiritual force at work in every physical working, it can be the Holy Spirit or it could be a spiritual force, Satan.
“where also our Lord was crucified.”
The place where Jesus died, where He was crucified. Thus we know it has to be referring to Jerusalem.
It was initially called the holy city, but what happened? The Antichrist forces corrupted it, that’s why it spiritually became Sodom and Egypt.
Two dead bodies in public and no one does anything about it
Revelation 11:9: “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.”
All sorts of people and different tribes, languages, and nationalities can see the two witnesses’ dead bodies on the street. So everyone around the world is watching for 3.5 days. They hate these two witnesses so much that they will not allow their dead bodies to be put in graves.
When these two witnesses are killed, how does the Antichrist kill God’s saints? He kills them by beheading them, so Moses and Elijah get their head chopped off. Can you imagine that their heads are lying out in the middle of the street, and people leave them be? That’s how wicked our world will become.
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.”
Notice how the beast killed God’s saints. It was through getting their heads chopped off.
Back to Revelation 11, the two witnesses’ dead bodies lie on the street for three and a half days.
‘three and a half days’ is a significant number. If you look at Dr. Ruckman’s commentary book, he mentioned that three and a half days is a significant number, and then he mentioned also to look for a “high noon Wednesday.”
If Daniel 9:27 is true as an application to the 7-year tribulation, that the treaty that the Antichrist makes is broken in the middle, so then he mentioned that as something interesting.
Palm Sunday and Good Friday are not biblical
Concerning Jesus Christ’s death by crucifixion, some people talk about Palm Sunday and Good Friday, and the days are just so way out of line that some Greek scholars ‘try’ to help out God that half a day could refer to a day. No, God already told you three and a half days here. These Greek scholars try to help God fit it with Good Friday where it doesn’t mean three days, three nights.
The Jewish calendar starts their day in the evening, at 6 pm. That’s how the Jewish calendar worked back then. How Dr. Ruckman explained this was that when Jesus Christ was buried, it’d be all night Wednesday, then all night Thursday, and all night Friday, so that’s all day Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On Saturday night, He came up, according to the Jewish calendar, but that’s the start of their day. The start of our day would be on Sunday. Jesus says as Jonah was three days and there nights at the whale’s belly, so the Son of Man will be three days three nights at the heart of the earth.
What’s interesting is that it starts on a Wednesday evening. Perhaps that may be something significant why we would have services on a Wednesday evening, that’s usually a standard thing in churches. And then they’d have a service on Sunday morning. So the reason why we have service on Sunday morning is not because of the Catholic church. Everyone wants to say that’s a Catholic system so you should not even go to church on Sunday mornings.
Why attend church on Sundays?
Before the Catholic church came out, early Christians were serving God on Sundays because they want to observe His resurrection. Many ancient accounts testify to that as well as early church fathers.
However, it is true that the name ‘Sunday’ contains the word ‘sun’, which has a Catholic nuance. Satan later corrupted it, and people who are overzealous online only looked at a half-truth and claimed that it’s a Catholic tradition. Also, they didn’t read their Bible. In the Bible, they were worshipping God on Sunday, the first day of the week.
The whole world can see the two witnesses’ dead bodies
Back to Revelation 11:9, so the whole world was able to look at their dead bodies. How do you do that? It’s a no-brainer by now that the whole world can see that through the internet.
In the first centuries, to say that every person worldwide can see their dead bodies in one location, that’s impossible. There’s no way how they can do that. If you read accounts of some preachers during the Great Awakening days, when you look at some of their commentaries on Revelation 11, they mentioned, ‘I don’t know how that’s possible but we take it by faith, that’s what the book says.’ But when the TV came out, boy oh boy! Don’t tell me that the book is not prophetic, it can jump ahead of time.
Merry Christmas!
Revelation 11:10: “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.”
“And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them,”
The people living on earth will rejoice about these two witnesses who got killed.
“and make merry,”
This is a day when they’re making merry, like Merry Christmas. If you think that’s a stretch, keep reading.
“and shall send gifts one to another;”
They’re giving gifts to each other too. So we can see what day it would be. Of course, it’s the day of Christmas.
On Christmas day, everyone is saying, “Those two witnesses are dead! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! We got rid of those two terrorists!”. Why? Because these two witnesses were not environmentalists, they were killing the environment. They stopped the rain. They made all the water turn into blood. And because the world prizes the environment more than the baby born, they don’t hesitate about this kind of death. They are used to seeing so much blood already. You don’t think mankind can do this, but the problem is that you’re already immune to some of the stupid things that they’re doing right now.
When the pastor is telling you all this kind of stuff, you’d think, “Oh, isn’t it natural that we do this? It’s not murder, it’s not something hateful. It’s not something chaotic or grotesque”. That’s what they’re going to be thinking, that same mindset when these two witnesses lose their heads.