They are coming back for, who are the two witnesses?
Well, before I reveal to you, who I believe these two
witnesses. Are let me first introduce to
you the three possible candidates.
Number one, John the Baptist, in case, you've never heard of the
two witnesses in the Bible. There's an end times prophecy
that God will appoint two of his Witnesses.
In the very last days to warn the people to turn back to the
Living. God, this will be one of the
last ever time. Times for mankind to finally
repent and put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And these two witnesses will be given special powers.
They'll be able to perform great Miracles and there they will
stand for three and a half years preaching, on the streets of
Jerusalem, but the prophecy also goes like this, the Antichrist
at that time will rise up and he will kill both of those two
witnesses. And their the two witnesses will
lie dead in the Public Square and all the world will rejoice.
We'll be happy that those two witnesses have been slaughtered,
then those from the people's tribes tongues and Nations will
see their dead bodies, three and a half days and not allow their
dead bodies to be put into Graves.
Now, let's just stop there for a moment.
Come back with me in Time. Imagine you and I have gone back
500 years and together we read this verse we'd be very puzzled
at how this can possibly turn out how can all the people of
the world, see See these dead bodies in Jerusalem and yet
today in the year that we live right now, suddenly The Book of
Revelation doesn't seem so far-fetched as it because right
now, we have phones. We have computers, we have
televisions. And one video, one bit of
footage can go viral around the whole world.
But what's even more interesting?
Is it actually says, in the scripture that these two
witnesses God will raise them back to life.
Again, have you ever heard people say this?
Why didn't they just have an iPhone?
In the days of Jesus, why didn't someone just film Jesus died on
the cross and then risen from the grave?
That would make everyone be able to believe a lot easier or when
these two witnesses rise from the dead, I'll tell you every
single news station in the world.
Every single social media platform will have it all over
plastered in front of your faces.
So you cannot deny that God is real and he moves in the spirit.
So why John the Baptist? Well, Jesus Christ himself said
this. Truly, I say to you among those
born of women, there has not risen one greater than John.
The Baptist. Are you catching that?
So in other words Jesus Christ is saying out of all the men in
the world, out of all the women in the world, there is no one
greater than John the Baptist. So, doesn't it make sense?
That if this is the greatest man, would God not use them
again to preach, repentance to the whole world.
And so he would be one of the two witnesses and also did All
this, John the Baptist only had a six-month Ministry.
He was only able to preach for just six months and then he was
headed my dear friends that seems like a very short amount
of time. And again, would it not be
possible that God might say, John, you've got another
opportunity to preach. Here's another chance to preach
repentance. I'm going to unleash you on the
whole world, the message of Faith.
Might go out and That Others May turn to the Lord Jesus Christ
again. But hey now Revelation tells us
that these two witnesses will be wearing sackcloth.
And why will they be wearing? Sackcloth?
Well in the Bible whenever a prophet was clothed in sackcloth
all the people or it was a sign that they were grieving over sin
that they were broken. It was also a sign that God's
judgment God's Doom was coming and so, the profits would wear
it as a way of saying repent, turn from your ways and what do
we know about John's message? It was a message of repentance
but I do wonder if there's anyone watching this.
The oh, now who's thinking, you know, I would love to be one of
those two witnesses. That would be one of the utmost
privileges to preach the gospel to preach and prophesy in the
end times to tell people to turn back to Christ.
And I want to say this, there's no reason why it wouldn't be an
ordinary believer. I mean, after all, God can raise
up stones to witness to cry out for him.
So why could he not use an ordinary believer like you and
I, but one thing you have to remember is this these two
witnesses will be put to death. Death and whoever steps up to
the Mark has to be willing to die.
And what did we just say about? John the Baptist, John the
Baptist was bold as a lion, he called out the public figure of
the day Herod and he says, You must turn from this sin is not
lawful for you to have that woman as your wife repent and
what happened. He lost his head for the Lord.
Jesus my dear friend if you want to be a witness for the Lord
Jesus Christ, whether it's one of the two witnesses or whether
it's in these days that we live right now.
Every single one of us needs to Ask ourselves this very big
question. Am I willing to lose my head for
the Lord? Jesus Christ, sounds radical,
but those days might just come, but perhaps the strongest
argument that John the Baptist could be one of the two
witnesses, his found on the last page of the Old Testament.
The final Prophecy of the Old Testament.
Says this behold. I will send you Elijah the
prophet before the coming of the great and Dreadful day of the
Lord. So God, God has promised that
just before the final judgment. That he pours out all of his
wrath on the earth, there will come the prophets, Elijah and
Jesus. How did Jesus refer to John the
Baptist? He said if you are willing to
accept it John himself is Elijah who was to come?
But okay. We kind of hit a problem here
because John the Baptist himself actually said, I am not Elijah,
so why did Jesus say you was, what could it be that when Jesus
is saying, if you accepted John, the Elijah, he would have been
that for, you could it be? Because the Jewish people did
not accept, John the Baptist, the vast majority that is, could
it be that God in his infinite? Wisdom has sort of engineered
another situation, where the real Elijah one day, turn up?
Or could it be as the angel of the Lord said that, John the
Baptist would be operating In The Same Spirit the same power
as Elijah, whatever the reason is, I'm not sure.
But there's one thing. Why I do believe that prophecy
in Malachi still has not yet been fulfilled and one day, the
real Elijah or not, the likeness of Elijah, but the real Elijah
will turn up and will preach the judgments of the Lord God.
So, you can probably guess your number two is, it's Elijah.
Now before I present to you, the evidence of why I believe,
Elijah will be one of the two witnesses.
Let me first ask you, do you believe that John the Baptist is
going to be one of these mysterious?
Who turns up in the tribulation? Well, we're going to look at the
answer very shortly. So apart from this incredible
prophecy that Elijah is one day going to return.
Is there any other evidence that he could be one of the two
witnesses? But what about this one?
Did you know that one of the signs of these two witnesses?
Is this anyone who tries to lay their hands on the two
witnesses? Anyone who tries to harm them?
It is sad about these two prophets that fire will come out
of their mouth and will devour them and What is one of the
Miracles that Elijah is very famous for.
He was able to command fire to come out of Heaven.
To remember those 50 men who were sent by the king, who said
Elijah? You must come now come before
the king and what did Elijah do? He commanded fire to come down
from heaven and they were totally consumed.
Remember, when Elijah stood before, the people of Israel and
cried out? How long will you waver between
two opinions? If Baal is god?
Well, then serve him. The Lord is God will then serve
him after Elijah pleaded with the people of Israel to give all
to the Lord. He then challenged the prophets
of Baal and said this, if your God, if Baal is real, why not
tell him to send fire down and commands the sacrifice?
This bull sacrifice in front of us, tell him to light it with a
fire. And so, the prophets of Baal all
morning, it says all morning until noon.
They were crying out Bail. Please answer us, please answer
as bail. Let this fire lies, but No fire
was have a LIDS and then the prophets of Baal looked at
Elijah. It was his turn now.
So Elijah told the people of Israel to make a sacrifice put a
ball on top of it. He then said pile the wood up
and then I want you to take 12 jars of water so they poured 12
jars of water all over the sacrifice and if there was ever
a time that Elijah needed the Lord God to turn up, it was now
you could cut the tension with a knife and he looked up Have a
and he said, Lord, send the fire and what happened?
God sent fire from heaven and showed everyone who the true
Living God is, but another powerful clue that Elijah is one
of the two witnesses is that Elijah never died.
He see in the Bible, there are only two people who never died.
One was Elijah and who was the other?
It was Enoch. And that's why some people also
say that. Enoch also could be one of these
two witnesses, but for me personally, here's the most
convincing piece of evidence. The Bible says, and I will
appoint my two witnesses and they will prophesy for 1260
days. Now, just remember that number,
keep that in your mind, it then says, they have power to shut up
Heavens, so that it will not rain.
During the time, they are prophesying.
So Elijah was known for fire, but he is also known as the
prophet who stopped the rain, the house.
Long did Elijah stop the rain. 40 James 5 verse 17 gives us the
answer. Elijah was a man with a nature
like ours and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain
and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
Now, to remember that number, 1260 days, if you take all of
those days and add them up together, guess how many years
you get three and a half? Half years.
Is that a coincidence? Or you tell me?
Okay, before I give you the third candidate?
I want to hear from you. Do you think that Elijah could
be one of those two witnesses? Well, in a moment's time I'm
going to give you my answer of who I believe these two
witnesses are. But first number three, Moses,
when I first saw this, it blew my brains out guys.
In the Book of Revelation, we read these two witnesses will
have the power. To turn water into blood and
they will also have the power to command every kind of plague to
fall on the earth. What do we know about?
Moses through the power of God? He was able to turn the river.
Now the Waters of that huge River into blunt and he was also
through the power of God. He was able to command 10
plagues to fall on the people of Egypt.
Why did Moses perform these great Miracles?
It was to wake the people up and to say you need to obey the
Living God. God.
And my dear friends, that's the exact same reason.
Why the two witnesses will use these miraculous signs to say,
to the whole world wake up, God is real, and one day you will
stand before him and if you reject the Lord, Jesus Christ,
you'll be trapped in Hell forever.
But if you receive him, you will have eternal life and you will
live in his kingdom and enjoy total joy and happiness for all
of eternity worshipping. The Of God who takes away the
sins of the world. Here's the bit that really got
me to this day. No one knows where Moses is
buried, but the Devil Himself seems to have a particular
Fascination. A particular obsession with the
body of Moses, the book of Jude says, Yet Michael the Archangel
in contending with the devil. When he disputed about the body
of Moses dared, not bring against him, a Dialing
accusation, but said, the Lord rebuke you.
You see what I find particularly peculiar is this.
Why was the devil so concerned about the body of Moses?
Why was he not arguing about the body of Noah, the body of
Sampson or Jonah? Why Moses could it be that the
devil? Who knows the scriptures better
than any Christian watching this video right now?
Better than any Theologian in any Bible College.
Could it be that the devil? Close that one day, Moses is
going to be resurrected and he is going to be one of those two
witnesses to bring many sons, many daughters back to the
Living. God, I mean, think about this,
could there be anything more convincing for the people of
Israel, when they see Moses. Therefore, father, the one who
brought them, the Lord, the one who brought them the Ten
Commandments? When they see Moses, living and
breathing amongst them? Preaching, in the streets of
Jerusalem and saying, I am telling you the truth.
The truth. Jesus Christ is our Messiah
turned to him. Do not think that the people of
Israel are going to have their eyes opened and there might just
be a huge Big Revival of the Jewish Nation, where many turns
the Living God and put their trust in the Lord.
Jesus Christ. So the wait is nearly over
before I reveal to you who I think these two witnesses are
there's one final piece of the puzzle that we need to think
about. And it's this, the prophet
Zachariah. He talks about these two
witnesses. It says thousands of years
earlier but he called them two lampstands two olive trees and
did. You know this in the Book of
Revelation chapter 11, those exact words are a cold but why
are there only two witnesses will all the way through the
Bible. There seems to be an emphasis on
the power of two witnesses in Deuteronomy.
It says, through two witnesses, two or three Witnesses, a word
shall be established when Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
Remember how many angels Sat on the tomb to witness that the
Lord Jesus Christ had risen from the dead.
There was to remember when Joshua sent spies out to
Jericho. How many did he send he sent to
and finish the sentence for me? The Lord sent the disciples out
in twos. So who do I believe these two
witnesses are? I could be totally wrong about
this, but I believe the answer lies in the Mount of
transfiguration. Let's go up the mountain and
let's stand there with Sir James and John and God himself paired
up to men to stand with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who were those two men Moses. And Elijah.
And personally I believe that God is going to use that exact
same pair in the tribulation and that Moses.
And Elijah are going to be those two witnesses.
Moses will represent every believer who is died in the Lord
and has been resurrected. And brought back to life whilst
Elijah will represent every single believer who has been
preserved from the grave because the Lord Jesus Christ Has Come
Again. Moses will represent the law
whilst Elijah or represents the prophets this might shock some
of you but if you only remember one thing from this video, let
it be this. You might never live to see who
these two witnesses are. But I want to tell you right
now, you are alive and there is a man stood in front of You now,
who is witnessing to you pleading with you to put your
trust in the Lord? Jesus Christ?
Remember, a couple of minutes ago, when I showed you, the
prophecy in Malachi about how Elijah will return.
Do you know what the very last word in that prophecy is?
Do you know what, the very last word in all of the Old Testament
is, it's this word, the word curse?
And did you know, this in the Book of Revelation which we've
just been studying? Do you know what?
One of the very last word Words, in all of the Bible, the very
last verse in the Bible, says this one word grace, and my dear
friend, there is only one thing I've got to ask you.
And it's this, are you under the curse or are you under grace?
If you're under the curse, it looks like this.
You've rejected the Lord Jesus Christ.
And right now you stand before the Lord God bear and all of the
law is in front of you, all of the law that you have broken all
of those skeletons, which all of us have For honest, we all have
skeletons in our closets, all of the sins that we have committed.
We stand there before God and we will be judged and we will be
cast into hell for all of eternity.
If we reject, the son of the Living God, but again, I want to
remind you. If you've got breath in your
lungs, if your heart is beating right now, you have an
opportunity to fall under the grace of God and it's all you
have to do is come to the Lord. Jesus Christ, the one Who died
on a cross. The one who was punished for
your sin. The one who was crucified, he
was crushed, who is bruised, who has beaten, who suffered their,
his blood was poured out, so that your sins can be scrubbed
away. So, your sins can be washed away
this same God, the same Savior, Jesus Christ, he died.
He was buried. And on the third day, he rose
from the dead. And that's why we put our trust
in him because he is the Living. God who is prepared to save any
sin. Who will humbly say Lord God
save me, have mercy on me. I'm a sinner and I've got to ask
you will you receive this Grace? This free gift being a
Christian, isn't about being a good boy or a good girl.
Trying to Curry up the favor of God.
No, the Bible says our righteousnesses are as filthy
rags. There is nothing good in us.
No Grace is all about receiving everything that Christ Jesus
done. Grace stands for God's riches.
At Christ's expense. And God today will give you his
spiritual riches. His righteousness as a gift, and
it's all at Christ's expense, because he died there for you,
so you could be forgiven. I've actually remembered
something else. I forgot to tell you, it
actually says that when the two witnesses are killed, people
will make themselves Mary. They'll start giving gifts to
Rejoice that these two men of God, these two prophets who
tormented them and now dead, why do you think those people?
Paul will say they've tormented them.
I'll tell you why it is because those profits will be a reminder
that they need to turn from their sins and put their trust
in the Lord, Jesus Christ. And those people, the people of
this world, love their sin. So much.
If you love your sin very much, you must must watch this message
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