Title: The Final Victory of the Two Witnesses
Contents
2007' Lecture on Revelation from the pulpit of the tendency (77)
"The witness ministry of two witnesses (3) (Revelation 11:11-14)"
-The final victory of the two witnesses-
Revelation 11:11-14
The body suddenly began to move. It is truly amazing. The corpse was a corpse that had been slain and was wallowing in the great city of Sodom and Egypt. These are the two witnesses, the two prophets, the two olive trees, and the corpses of the two candlesticks. They stood on their feet again in the midst of the great city road. Isn't that an amazing spectacle?
1) When do you win?
In Revelation 11:11, “… three and a half days later.” It was said that the final victory would come after three and a half days. Here ‘three and a half days’ is the end of the last tribulation of the church on earth. It is the time when Jesus returns.
If so, it is the time when the emergence of a new heaven and a new earth that unfolds with the Last Judgment will be realized. In view of this, history is finite, and the persecution of the church has its end. The battle church on earth is anticipating its final victory and fighting at the persecution and death of all kinds of suffering, and is developing the gospel movement. He who has a truly beautiful future of victory, is one who can pass through the gates of perseverance to endure the hardships of today. After three and a half days, victory is sure to come. Therefore, the believer always faces reality while looking forward to the triumph of the end.
2) What is the victory content?
(1) Resurrection.
In Revelation 11:11, it is said, “The breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and the onlookers were greatly afraid.”
This is speaking of the resurrection of his people (two prophets) just as our Lord rose from the grave three days after he died.
This resurrection is the resurrection of life. It is the resurrection of the body. It is a complete resurrection. It is an eternal resurrection. It is the resurrection that sets us free from sin and death. It is the second resurrection (Revelation 20:5). Currently, believers on earth are undergoing a spiritual resurrection. This is the first resurrection. He said that those who hear the gospel of Jesus Christ will live (John 5:25). Those who participated in this first resurrection are exercising the authority of kingship even in the midst of the tribulation of this extreme world. He is exercising his kingship through the Word, the Holy Spirit, prayer, and the repentance movement.
Therefore, it is said that those who participated in the first resurrection are blessed (Rev 20:6).
Just as Jesus Christ passed through the world as he reigned as king in this world where he was hated, rejected, arrested, interrogated, and even crucified, so his witnesses (churches) are Until the very end, he lived as a king on earth.
These are the people the world could not bear (Hebrews 11:38). They were the princes of the great century who, by faith, led their lives to victory in this world. Their strength is because of the resurrection life.
Now, three and a half days later, they will have a second resurrection. This is the resurrection of the body again. It is the resurrection of a spiritual body, free from sin. It is a filmed resurrection. It is a change that occurred suddenly and suddenly (1 Corinthians 15:44, 51-53). First the dead will be resurrected, then the surviving will be transformed to receive the Lord in glory (1 Corinthians 15:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:15).
(2) Ascension.
In Revelation 11:12 it is said again, "When they heard a loud voice from heaven saying, 'Come up here,' they went up into heaven on clouds."
This also means a one-time event. It means that once ascended, there is no repeating again. The place of ascension is heaven. He moved to a place of clear liberation. The people of heaven who were slain on earth and resurrected will no longer live on this earth again. From now on, the Battle Church will end and the Victory Church, the Church of Heaven, will begin.
3) What are the factors of victory?
It is the breath and voice of heaven. This is supernatural history. In Revelation 11:11, the resurrection is “… Breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet.” This is the living spirit, the spirit of life, and the energy of life. It is the energy of God that was breathed in when Adam was created (Genesis 2:7, 6:17, Ezekiel 37:10).
The ascension of Revelation 11:12 also says, “There is a loud voice from heaven, come up here.” That very voice is also a supernatural spirit heard from the objective world.
In 1 Corinthians 15:52, it is said, “The sound of the trumpet sounds, and the dead are raised to immortality, and we will be changed.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 says, “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds into the air. will receive the Lord in Esau.”
Therefore, the victory of the church lies in the supernatural power of God.
The creation of man was the supernatural work of God (the Father). The redemption of man who had fallen into sin was God's supernatural work (the Son). Also, the birth of the church was a supernatural work of God (the Holy Spirit). The progress and completion of this church was also the supernatural work of God Himself.
The victory of the church is always certain. This is because only the vitality (the energy of God) and the voice (the revelation of God) are the secrets of the church's victory. Therefore, the church is already on the road to victory.
4) Victory is public.
In Revelation 11:11, when the dead (corpses) received the energy of God and rose on their feet, it is said, “The onlookers were greatly afraid.” In Revelation 11:12, “… They ascended into the sky on the clouds, and their enemies also watched.”
This is just like the case of Jesus Christ.
Christ's coming into the world was public. His selfishness was open. He spoke, lived, and acted openly. Even when he died, he died on a high cross. The resurrection event was also public. The ascension was public, the descent of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church were public. By no means did the events of Jesus Christ and the church movement happen in one corner. It was a publicly known event, and it was true.
Such was the life of his witnesses. They testified of Jesus Christ on the holy road of great history (Sodom, Egypt). Everyone was ridiculed and even killed in the great city road. Even their bodies were publicly humiliated so that they could not be kept secret.
Then, their victory can no longer be a secret. They jumped to their feet on the streets of history and ascended to heaven in the sight of many. The body moved and was carried to the sky.
Revelation 1:7 says, “Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those who pierced him will see him, and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him, amen.”
Light can never be a secret in the face of darkness.
5) The victory of the church means the judgment (end) of this world.
The ‘poem’ here is the second coming of Jesus Christ. “There is a great earthquake” has already been looked at in Revelation 6:12. It is an event related to judgment at the Second Coming of Jesus, but not only by earthquakes on the last day of judgment.
To say that a tenth of the city will fall and 7,000 people will die is not a feminine interpretation. Here, the number 10 is a symbol of a large number and 7 is a symbol of a perfect number. If so, this would mean to foretell God's perfect judgment that will come upon the elect of this world with the second coming of Jesus. Those who are to be destroyed will be destroyed not only by earthquakes, but also in other cases.
Therefore, this biblical expression informs unbelievers, the protagonists of the Great Road, that the fateful end has now come.
It is not the glory of faith and repentance that those who survived the earthquake glorified God in fear. It is merely a sign of anxiety that is ignited in fear of God's stern judgment. Nebuchadnezzar also gave this glory to God (Dan. 2:47, 3:28, 4:1~3, 4:34, 4:37). but he never repented
The elect are afraid but never repent (Revelation 6:15-17, 9:20-21, 16:9-11). They did not know how to repent at the sound of the warning trumpet. Rather, it rejected the evidence of the two witnesses. killed Now there is an inevitable final judgment.
That is why it is said, “The second woe (Revelation 9:13-19) has passed, but behold, the third woe is coming quickly” (Revelation 11:14).
The day the church sings the final triumph, the day the world receives the final judgment.