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The ‘two witnesses’ of Revelation each stand in front of a lampstand and an olive tree

TREASURES FROM GOD’S WORD | REVELATION 10-12

“Two Witnesses” Are Killed and Brought Back to Life

11:3-11

  • “Two witnesses”: The small group of anointed brothers who were taking the lead when God’s Kingdom was established in 1914

  • Killed: After preaching for three and a half years “in sackcloth,” they were “killed” when they were imprisoned and forced into inactivity

  • Returned to life: At the end of the symbolic three and a half days, they returned to life when they were released from prison and resumed taking the lead in the preaching work

Revelation 11:1, 2 links these events to the inspection and cleansing of the spiritual temple described at Malachi 3:1-3. Prophetic time line shows: cleansing of the temple from about the end of 1914 to about the beginning of 1919; three and a half years or 1,260 days from about the end of 1914 to about the beginning of 1918; three and a half days from about the beginning of 1918 to about the beginning of 1919.