31 Elijah and the 2 witnesses

Elijah and the 2 witnesses
Premise1: The 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men and the sealed 144000 children of Israel are regarded as the same saints, and it is assumed that these are symbolized as the 2 witnesses. Premise2: It is assumed that the entire 42 months of the 1st half of the 70th week, for which worship of the beast is forced, is the period of the great tribulation. If the period of the great tribulation is shorter than that, we can think about it accordingly. Premise3: 1st half of the 70th week=42months=1260days=1time times and a half=3times and a half=3years and 6months=period of the great tribulation=forcing worshiping the beast=forcing the mark of the beast666=reign of the beast Premise4: Abomination of desolation = The son of destruction standing in holy place = The son of perdition who sits in the temple building and calls himself God = Babylon harlot riding on the scarlet beast = Babylon papacy seized the superpower = Beast from the abyss = Combined beast with a healed head Premise5: The sea beast of the 1st half of the 70th week refers to the Babylon prostitute riding on the scarlet beast, and the beast of the 2nd half of the 70th week refers to the scarlet beast that casts off the Babylon prostitute. The Babylon prostitute, the son of destruction, takes control of the scarlet beast during the period of the great tribulation and compels people to worship. Just before the beginning of the 7 plagues of the great tribulation, the martyr witnesses are resurrected or transformed, and the 7 plagues are poured out on the earth. The 7 plagues cause the earth to almost lose its function. The scarlet beast, realizing that it was deceived by the Babylon prostitute, burns the Babylon prostitute.[1] The beast in Revelation 13 refers to the Babylon prostitute that took control of the scarlet beast, but the beast in Revelation 19 refers to the scarlet beast that burned the Babylon prostitute.
Dan.9:27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate. †   Here, the 'midst' of the week is translated into other English versions as 'for half', 'for the half', 'for a half', 'in half', 'in the half', 'halfway', 'in the midst', 'in the middle'. The great tribulation will continue for as long as this 'half' means. Therefore, opinions about when the great tribulation will begin may vary. (Here, it is assumed that the great tribulation will begin with the 70th week.) No matter when the great tribulation begins, the great tribulation suffered by the saints must end with the 1st resurrection. The 1st resurrection takes place after the 1260 days when the 2 witnesses proclaimed the prophecy and just before the pouring out of the 7 plagues. It means that the 1st resurrection will take place at half point of the 70th week, that is, around the end of the 1st half of the 70th week, and then the great tribulation will be over. (The 7 plagues are also included in the great tribulation and are more severe tribulation, but because the saints do not suffer the 7 plagues, therefore for the saints, the great tribulation ends with the 1st resurrection.) †   The 70th week begins with the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.[2] The great tribulation which continued for the 1st half of the 70th week, will reach its climax around the half point of the 70th week. When the great tribulation reaches its climax, the beast that came up from the abyss and forced worship for the 1st half of the 70th week, comes to prevail over the 2 witnesses. Jezebel the prostitute prevails, and Elijah, the 2 witnesses, flees.
2Thess.2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, 2Thess.2:4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. †   This is the time when the abomination of desolation stands in the holy place, when the son of destruction makes a firm covenant with the many for 1 week. The son of destruction will sit in the temple building, call himself God, and force worship for the 1st half of the 70th week. There will be the great tribulation unprecedented since the creation of the world.[3] Even during the great tribulation, the 2 witnesses will smash the beast armies and protect the saints who have fled to the prepared place.	Matt.24:15 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), Matt.24:16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Matt.24:21 for then will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. †   When the abomination of desolation stands in the holy place, the great tribulation that has never been seen since the creation of the world will occur. Then the saints will have to flee to the mountains. I think these mountains will be the realms where the 2 witnesses protect the saints from the beast.[4] Even in this age when the whole world has been taken over by the beast, there are mountains where God's people are protected until the end.[5] However, by the climax of the great tribulation which has not been seen since the creation of the world, even the last remaining prepared place[6] will not be able to protect the saints.[7] For even the 2 witnesses will be killed by the beast.[8]
1Kin.17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. †   Elijah shuts the sky for 3 years and 6 months.[9] 3 years and 6 months is half of a week which is 42 months or 1260 days.[10] Just as Elijah escaped the famine at the house of the widow of Zarephath, so for the 1st half of the 70th week, some saints will also avoid the great tribulation at the prepared place. There are saints who avoid the great tribulation, and there are saints who wage war with the beast forces during the same period. The saints who will smash the armies of beasts are the 144000 firstfruits[11] who are redeemed from among men[12], who received God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain, symbolized by the 2 witnesses.[13] 1Kin.17:7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 1Kin.17:8 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying, 1Kin.17:9 Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you. †   During the 3 years and 6 months of continuous drought, Elijah passed the brook Cheritah and went to the widow of Sarepta to avoid tribulation.[14] This symbolizes that the saints will avoid the great tribulation for 1 time times and a half, 3 times and a half, 3 years and 6 months, 42 months, 1260 days, that is, the 1st half of the 70th week in the prepared place of the wilderness. †   Elijah fought 850 false prophets after avoiding tribulation for 3 years and 6 months. However, in the 1st half of the 70th week[15], some martyr witnesses will escape the great tribulation and survive and be transformed, some martyr witnesses will be resurrected by defeating the beasts with their death, and the 2 witnesses, the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, will smash the armies of the beast. This means that protection and battle will happen at the same time. If there is no persecution of the beast itself, there will be no escape or fight of the saints. Elijah showed both the saints who will escape the great tribulation and who will smash the armies of the beasts.			Rev.12:6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days. Rev.12:14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. †   While the beasts kill the saints for 1260 days of the 1st half of the 70th week before the 1st resurrection[16], there will be a prepared place to nourish some of the saints. After the son of destruction sits in the temple building, the great tribulation that has not been seen since the foundation of the world, begins for the 1st half of the 70th week. Considering the word that unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved[17], it is unlikely that the saints will be able to be nourished in this prepared place even when the great tribulation reaches its climax around the end of the 1st half of the 70th week. Because if the saints were to be nourished to the end, there would be no reason not to endure. †   If so, will the saints who were nourished eventually be killed? When the great tribulation reaches its climax, the 2 witnesses who have smashed the armies of the beast for the 1st half of the 70th week also die. If so, there may be some who are martyred by death among the saints who were nourished. If these saints are going to be martyred by death anyway, there may be a question as to 'why God has nourished them until then.' In the meantime, they may have helped the 2 witnesses.
1Kin.17:21 He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again. 1Kin.17:22 Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 1Kin.17:23 Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives. 1Kin.17:24 The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth. †   (Probably) Near the end of 3 years and 6 months, Elijah raises the dead child. This forshadowed the resurrection and the transformation of the martyr witnesses that would take place after the great tribulation of the 1st half of the 70th week.
1Kin.18:38 Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 1Kin.18:39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Yahweh, he is God; Yahweh, he is God. 1Kin.18:40 and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. †   Just as the 2 witnesses extinguish their enemies for 3 years and 6 months of the 1st half of the 70th week[18], for 3 years and 6 months of famine, Elijah prays for fire from heaven and kills the false prophets.		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 lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth. 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. †   The 2 witnesses shut up the sky and kill their enemies with fire for 1260 days they prophesy, which is the period of the great tribulation.[19] The 2 witnesses, like Moses[20] and Elijah, perform the ministry of striking the earth with every plague.
1Kin.19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 1Kin.19:2 Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. 1Kin.19:3 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. †   Before the end of 3 years and 6 months, Elijah killed 850 false prophets, but at the end of 3 years and 6 months, Jezebel prevails and Elijah flees. For the 3 years and 6 months of the 1st half of the 70th week, the 2 witnesses have smashed the beast forces, but when the 1st half of the 70th week is over and the 2 witnesses finish their testimony, the Babylon prostitute prevails. The son of destruction who came up from the abyss and has forced worship for 42 months of the 1st half of the 70th week, eventually prevails over the 2 witnesses.		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. †   When the 1st half of the 70th week begins, the son of destruction sits in the temple building and calls himself God. The beast that came up from the abyss is forcing worship of the beast. †   The Babylon prostitute who was smashed by the 2 witnesses throughout the great tribulation period, finally is allowed to kill the 2 witnesses at the end of the great tribulation period. Because the LORD Jesus will soon destroy the earth with the 7 plagues, He is evacuating the 2 witnesses from the earth before the destruction. †   The saints who died or fled while refusing to worship the beast, are clearly martyr witnesses. Still, there may be a point of view that thinks, 'How is it martyrdom to smashed the armies of the beast and burned and killed enemies?'.[21] Either way, the controversy ends after the 2 witnesses either die or run away to refuse the mark of the beast666.
1Kin.19:7 The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you. 1Kin.19:8 He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God. †   Just as Elijah fled from the prostitute Jezebel, after 1260 days of the 1st half of the 70th week, the Babylon prostitute has the upper hand over the 2 witnesses.[22] The great tribulation that the saints must endure is reaching its climax. Soon, the martyr witnesses will be resurrected or transformed.
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. Rev.11:13 In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven. Rev.11:14 The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly. Rev.11:15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!" †   I think that the 2 witnesses are the last firstfruits[23], that is, the 144000 firstfruits who are redeemed from among men, to be produced around the 70th week, when the Feast of Tabernacles, the Feast of Booths, the Feast of Tents, the 1000-year kingdom, is near. The 2 witnesses symbolize the saints who will eat the little book and prophesy[24], that is, the sealed saints.[25] The 144000 firstfruits are the last firstfruits to be produced around the 70th week.[26] The 144000 firstfruits who will pass through the 70th week are sealed by God the Holy Spirit[27] who comes even as the latter rain[28], and the 2 witnesses who ate the little book prophesy again. The 144000 who receive God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain, are expressed as the 2 witnesses who eat the little book to prophesy again. God the Holy Spirit comes even as the latter rain so that those who have eaten the little book can exercise power and prophesy again. Among the firstfruits that received God the Holy Spirit who came as the early rain, the 144000 special firstfruits are sealed by God the Holy Spirit who comes even as the latter rain and prophesy again for the 1st half of the 70th week. †   When the 7th trumpet is sounded, the 2 witnesses who were killed by the beast are resurrected and are caught up into the air. This symbolizes the 1st resurrection. Not only the 144000 firstfruits who received God the Holy Spirit who came even as the latter rain[29], but also the saints who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, that is, the saints who received God the Holy Spirit who came as the early rain, will be resurrected or transformed at the time of the 1st resurrection.[30] All the martyr witnesses of the old testament age who were martyred before God the Holy Spirit came into the body of the saints[31], will also be resurrected. There are saints who will be resurrected as well as those who will be transformed.[32]

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[1] Rev.17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

[2] Mark13:14 But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

[3] Dan.12:1 "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.

[4] 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. 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.

[5] Rev.12:14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

[6] Rev.12:6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

[7] Matt.24:22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened.

[8] 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.

[9] Luke4:25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

[10] 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 gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

[11] Rev.7:2 I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!" I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

[12] Rev.14:3 They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth. These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

[13] 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 gentiles. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before the Lord of the earth. 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. 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.

[14] Luke4:25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. Elijah was sent to none of them, except only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

[15] Rev.13:5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him. He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven. It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

[16] Rev.13:15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.

[17] Matt.24:21 for then will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be. Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened.

[18] Zech.12:6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem. Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah. In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.

[19] 2Kin.1:12 Elijah answered them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. The fire of God came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

[20] Ex.7:19 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'" Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

[21] Heb.11:33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and turned to flight armies of aliens.

[22] 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.

  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.

[23] Deut.16:13 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:

[24] Rev.10:10 I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter. They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."

[25] Rev.7:4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

[26] Rev.14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

[27] 2Cor.1:21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

[28] Hos.6:3 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain that waters the earth."

[29] Rev.14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

[30] Rom.8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

[31] John7:37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

[32] 1Thess.4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.https://youtu.be/AupisuARmgQ?feature=shared