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   July, 2026 (Vol.60-No.7)
 
 
ELIJAH: STAND UP FOR GOD

Preached by Dr. Gene Scott on September 6, 1987

Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all
the knees which have not bowed unto Baal,
and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
1st Kings 19:18
TURN IN YOUR BIBLE TO 1ST KINGS 17, and read starting at verse 1, “And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.” My Bible has an alternative translation in the margin, which I prefer: “unless I first announce it.” Once more I ask that we put flesh and blood on a Bible story. There are many people who think that everything they hear in church is fantasy. They endure the church service as though it were some form of penance, and then they go out into the world, saying, “Thank God, I can now come back to reality!” The Bible IS reality! It is full of episodes selected by God to teach us how to be real, God’s way, in the midst of our circumstances.

Think of Elijah’s courage. Though this is an inadequate analogy, try to imagine going into the White House, walking right past the guards, and saying to the President, “It’s not going to rain anymore in the United States until I announce it.” Elijah barged into a king’s court in a day when that meant certain death. He announced it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t rain!

Why did Elijah do such a thing? You can search the Bible and you will not find any record that an angel spoke to him and said, “Do this and I will back you up.” Elijah just suddenly appeared on the scene and burst into the king’s court and declared it wouldn’t rain anymore. That was a very bold pronouncement, friend. I wouldn’t want to try it. I suppose that there is a statistical chance that the rain would stop falling at my word, but it would be an unlikely coincidence. And Elijah didn’t have access to local weather data like we have today.

So why would Elijah make such an announcement? Because many generations earlier, in the book of Deuteronomy, God gave promises of blessing and of cursing to His people before they entered into the Promised Land. He let His people know what they could expect to happen when they got there, and He told them, “if you ever worship idols in this land that I have given you, I will shut up the heavens and not let it rain anymore.”

Once God spoke this word, it was forever settled in heaven. Once God said it, it was established. God’s people entered the Promised Land, and in the days of Jeroboam when the kingdom was divided, they started worshiping idols at Dan and Bethel. Idol worship continued and only got worse in the days of King Ahab and his evil wife, Jezebel. The people had been worshipping idols for many generations, but the rains continued to fall. God’s word, forever settled in heaven, was in conflict with the things of time. Time was not in accord with what God had declared.

Elijah was living in the desert when he read what any saint of God could have read. He could see that God’s word was being contradicted by the facts of time. Therein was the opportunity for faithing. Every saint in Israel had that opportunity. Elijah lived east of the Jordan in a desert area. If it stopped raining, there wasn’t anyone who stood to lose more than Elijah; but God’s honor was at stake. Even though God’s word was forever settled in heaven, paradoxically and strangely, it was not yet settled in time. The connecting link to God’s promise awaited a man or a woman of faith who was willing to say, “I would rather die than allow this damnable contradiction to continue! It appears that the things of time are conquering heaven’s settled utterance. I would rather reach up and grab God’s word and become the point of resistance that says to time, ‘Get back!’ than live any longer with time slapping God in the face!”

Time, in all of its dimensions, is of little consequence in relationship to God’s eternity. God’s word says that one day He will make a new heaven and a new earth. God can afford to delay the fulfillment of His word for a short period of time, which means no more to Him than a blink of any eye in relation to our eternal life. All the citizens of Israel had an opportunity to trust God and His word, but Elijah was the only one willing to take a stand.

In the New Testament, James 5 gives us a glimpse of the prelude to Elijah’s appearance in King Ahab’s court. James said, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” He used Elijah as his example, saying, “he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.” There is power in persevering prayer.

The modern church has been plagued with false teachers who say that you can declare a thing and it will be so. That is not true; only God can declare something and it is so. But there are things we are entitled to declare in faith: we can declare what has already been forever settled in heaven. We can declare in faith what God has promised. Since God has promised that we can be saved only by faith, He provides us with opportunities for faith. He expects us to exercise faith in those opportunities in order that we might pass muster in His sight for the right to rule and reign with Him throughout eternity. God gives us those opportunities so that, out of the mass of people who are ruled by the things of time and have their heads down, we might look up and proclaim, “In God’s name, I will grab hold of eternity! I will defy the things of time, instead of being captured by time and questioning eternity.” That is what faith is.

Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews make it very clear that the Old Testament saints who made it into heaven did not make it in because of their works. They made it into heaven because God gave them an opportunity for faith and they rose to the occasion. In Elijah’s day, an opportunity was presented to reach up and grab God’s word and defy time, and only one man did it.

That is why Elijah didn’t need to receive a special revelation; he didn’t need an angel to tell him what to do. He read what every saint of God could have read. Time was defying God’s promise. Idol worship had gone unchecked for generation after generation, until God finally found one man in the desert who was willing to take a stand. Elijah didn’t care about his own well-being. He didn’t complain, “But God, if it stoops raining, I won’t be happy living here in the desert.” God’s honor was more important to Elijah than his own happiness. More importantly, God was providing Elijah with an opportunity for eternal salvation! I firmly believe that Elijah did not know this. We are the lucky ones because Paul has explained to us the mystery of the kingdom, that faith, which is primarily courage and endurance, is a God-given opportunity for eternal life.

I do not believe that this mystery had been revealed to Elijah. The Bible says in 1st Peter that prophets diligently searched after it and even angels bent down low to explore the mystery. God revealed it to Paul. Therefore, Elijah had the purest kind of faith. He acted only because God had made a promise. Elijah simply prayed that God would do what He had already said He would do. Then he hung his body on God’s word by a faithing action: he marched right into the king’s court and said, “It’s not going to rain anymore unless I first announce it.”

Only after he did this, “the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.” Elijah first acted on the word of God, already uttered and available to everyone. He had received no prior communication from God; he did not have some kind of mystical experience. He put himself at risk by an act of faith, and only then, “the word of the LORD came unto him.” The lesson is that Elijah received specific, personal direction from God only after he had acted in faith based on God’s revealed word. Most people would rather act in faith after the word of the Lord comes to them. People say things like, “If God would tell me to, then I would support His work!” But the Lord has already spoken to you through His word. Paul said in Galatians 6, “If you have been taught in the word, then share materially with the one who teaches you.” Paul goes on to say that when you give to the one who teaches you the gospel, you are “sowing to the Spirit,” which releases the Spirit to reap a harvest of life everlasting for you. Don’t try to make excuses and say, “When the Lord tells me to,” because He has already told you to! One of the things we learn from Elijah is that we should never expect a personal revelation from God until we are acting on the general revelation that has already been given to all of us. If we Christians would act on even half of the revealed word of God that we have received, we would transform the world.

God had said it would not rain, yet the rains continued to fall for generation after generation. I am sure there were many people living in that day who began to think that God did not really mean what He said, so they felt free to carry on with their idolatry. Finally, one man prayed earnestly that God would do what He had already said He would do, and he strode into the court of the king and made his announcement. We might think that his one great act of faith immediately qualified him for heaven. We know that Elijah did not die. God would send a chariot of fire to whisk him away to heaven. I can imagine God saying, “I can’t wait any longer, I am taking you to be with Me right now!” But that is not what happened. After Elijah took a stand for God, he was given an assignment: “Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith.”

Most preachers today, if they could perform even one act of faith to match Elijah’s courage, would not want to hide themselves; they would want to promote themselves. They would tell God, “I’ve been hidden for about as long as I want to be hidden. This is the first time anyone even knows I exist! I am ready to appear on all the TV evangelists’ talk shows. I want everyone to know that I am the man who withstood the forces of Ahab and declared in the power of the Spirit that the rain clouds would be shut off!” Why go into hiding? But God said, “Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.” Those birds were commanded to fly to the hidden place; they would not fly anywhere else. If Elijah wanted God’s provision, he had to follow His leading. He had to go to the hidden place.

Why would God perform a miracle like that in a hidden place? If He intended to command the birds to fly and feed this prophet, why didn’t He choose a location where people could see it? It is no wonder that the people didn’t believe God’s word all those years. Sometimes it seems to me like God has no sense of the dramatic. Some modern-day evangelists would have thought, “What a waste of a miracle! Let me put on a fancy robe, and let those birds fly directly to me. Then God and His servant would be listened to. I could convert half of Israel!”

If I may use another ludicrous illustration: if I had been one of those birds, I would have said to God, “Do You realize that in the entire record of Your book, we ravens have the first chance to undo the damage to our reputation caused by the one raven that flew away from Noah’s ark? Give us a chance to show off, Lord! If we feed this old prophet by the brook, no one will even know about it. It’s time for the world to know that we ravens obey God too!” God’s ways are not man’s ways. God doesn’t need to show off.

Elijah obediently went to the brook Cherith. He didn’t go to show off his spiritual image; he went because God told him to and because he cared about God’s honor. He didn’t care where God sent him. He didn’t complain, “But I won’t be happy by a brook!” We read, “So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.”

Elijah might have thought, “Now I know I am in God’s will.” Then we read, “And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up…” Why would God allow such a thing? God sent him to a brook but the brook ran dry. It looked like Elijah could not count on God for anything! If it had been me, I might have said, “I never wanted to come to this damned brook in the first place!”

The Bible says, “after a while, the brook dried up.” Brooks don’t just suddenly run dry. There are such things as flash floods, but there are no flash un-floods. It takes a while for a brook to dry up. Imagine you were Elijah. The first morning that you camped by the brook, you might have said, “Wow! I’m in God’s will! Here come the birds, the bread, and the flesh! And here is the water!” But every day, the brook got a little smaller. It got smaller still, and soon there were only a few puddles remaining. If I had been there, I would have started crying out to God. “O God, turn the faucet back on! Now I’m really unhappy here.” The whole time that the brook was going dry, God didn’t say a word to Elijah. He just let him sit there and watch it go dry.

F.B. Meyer pointed out that God was teaching Elijah to trust the Giver of the gift and not the gift itself. When God responds to your faith and gives you something, it is very easy to put your trust in the gift. But if you are one of His chosen ones whom He wants to develop into a joint heir with His Son in eternity, and if He sees you becoming dependent upon His gift, He will withdraw the gift to teach you to trust the One who gave it to you in the first place. If you believe in the Giver only because of His gift, then the Giver will take away the gift in order to get you to trust the Giver again. When Elijah was in the desert, He trusted the Giver before he ever heard any word from the Lord other than what was available to everyone. He acted in faith before there were birds to feed him or a brook to provide for his needs. So God took away the brook.

Only after the brook dried up did the Lord give Elijah his next instructions. The Lord told Elijah, “Go to Zarephath, for I have provided a widow to feed you there.” I would have complained, “Come on, God, I have withstood a king and have been fed by ravens, but there are some things I won’t do! I don’t want to be dependent upon a widow. That is what the news media criticizes preachers for: taking from poor widows. But if this is a rich widow, I suppose I can adjust my principles a little!”

Elijah went to Zarephath, and sure enough, he found a widow there gathering sticks. I can imagine him saying, “Hi, lady! God sent me to you. He told me you would feed me. Now, first off, I would like some biscuits with gravy and country ham!” And she would say, “Are you out of your mind? Don’t you know there is a famine?” In fact, if she had known that Elijah was the cause of the famine, she might have beat him with one of those sticks.

There was something strangely lacking in God’s ability to coordinate the people He had chosen, because this widow obviously hadn’t gotten the message that she was supposed to feed Elijah. She said, “I don’t have anything to feed you with. I just have enough for me and my boy to eat one meal, and then die.” I can imagine Elijah saying, “God, we need to talk! Did you know the condition of this widow when You sent me here? It’s bad enough to have to take from a widow, but a starving and a broke widow?” Once again, God’s word to Elijah was contradicted by the seen circumstances. So Elijah said, “Ma’am, fix a meal for me first, and then you and your boy can eat what is left.” Can you imagine how that story would be covered by today’s news media? You can see how far the world’s ways are removed from God’s ways, and how the world has been able to intimidate the church.

The widow gave to Elijah as he commanded, and God then miraculously suppled her needs, day in, and day out. Then one day, her body died. She said to Elijah, “You are the reason my boy died! If you had not come, he would not have died! Have you come here to remind me of my past sins?” Remember, her boy would have died much earlier if Elijah had not come and brought forth faith from her. And who cared about her past sins? If Elijah was angry with her, he did not show it. He simply asked, “Where is the boy?” He went upstairs and raised the boy from the dead.

This is another example of how God’s ways don’t make sense to the world. Why would God have Elijah perform that miracle in secret, and in a compromising situation? If he even told the world that he was there, he would probably get accused of something unseemly for being in that widow’s house in the first place. Again, God has no sense of the dramatic; Elijah should have been able to perform a miracle like raising someone from the dead in King Ahab’s court, not somewhere on the backside of the desert. There weren’t even any photographers around. So he brought down the boy alive, and the widow said, “Now I know that you are a man of God!” I would have said, “I’m the same man you were bad-mouthing a few minutes earlier! How is this miracle any different than the miracle of provision that God has shown you these past many months?”

The day came when Elijah challenged all of the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. He said, “Let the God who answers by fire demonstrate Himself,” as he mocked those prophets who worshipped the sun god. If Baal were a true god, then fire from heaven should have fallen when the sun was overhead. But they cried aloud to their god and cut themselves until the sun went down, and nothing happened. Then Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes of Israel, and built an altar. He dug a trench around the altar and arranged the wood on it, and then he cut a bullock in pieces and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill barrels with water and pour it on the sacrifice and on the wood.” He made them do this three times; they poured water on the sacrifice until it overflowed the altar and filled the trench. Then he prayed a simple prayer and fire fell from heaven, consuming the sacrifice, the water, and the very stones of the altar.

The people who witnessed these events feared the Lord and turned back to Him. Elijah then had the people take all the prophets of Baal down to the brook Kishon to be slain. Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel and prayed until a cloud the size of a man’s hand appeared in the sky; then he went back to Ahab and said, “It’s going to rain.” Elijah girded his garments about him and ran in the wind and the storm all the way to Jezreel. Then Jezebel, the queen, sent a message to Elijah saying, “I’m going to kill you!”

And from that great victory, Elijah fled to Beersheba in the south and another day’s journey into the desert, south of the Dead Sea. He lay down under a Juniper tree and wanted to die. An angel came to him and baked a cake for him. He got up and journeyed to Horeb, the mount of God, and entered a cave and lodged there. We read beginning in 1st Kings 19:9, “Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?” And Elijah replied, in essence, “I’m feeling sorry for myself here in this cave. I have a right to: I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

From Elijah’s conscious perception, what he said was true. He had stood alone when he walked into the court of Ahab. He had stood alone as one faithful man against all the prophets of Baal. He said, “I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.” And God said, “Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD.” The Lord passed by and a great, strong wind rent the mountains, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind came an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. All of those things were only the effects of God’s passing. After the fire, there was a still small voice, and the Lord was in that voice.

You see, Elijah started out with only God’s word, but then he got his eyes on other things. So God had to show him that the effects of His presence do not always coincide with His presence; but God and His word are always one. When Elijah heard the voice, “he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him…” God asked him the same question He had asked earlier, and again Elijah replied, “I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.” Elijah was still whining, and the Lord replied, “Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and ever mouth which hath not kissed him.”

What a tragedy that those 7,000 people had not made their presence known to anyone but God until this faithful servant, who had stood alone for so long, was brought to a breaking point. I am now looking at these events from the human point of view. If you follow Elijah for the final years of his ministry, you will see that very little of significance was accomplished until the time of his departure. We know that God did not abandon him for his failures because He still gave Elijah a chariot ride to heaven. But the final years of Elijah’s ministry were not noteworthy like the years up to that point.

Consider how many years had passed without even one of those 7,000 people raising their head and saying, “I will withstand the things of time and let eternity rule down here!” Elijah did it as one man. Generations passed without God’s word being effected in time, in spite of thousands of people who had not bowed their knees to Baal. It is one thing to not bow your knee to Baal, but it is another thing to have the faith to reach up and declare, “God’s word will be the rule of my life!” Sure, there were 7,000, but Elijah did not know about them, and their silence brought this great servant of God to a breaking point.

Think of what happened to Moses. God did not allow him to lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land. He had commanded Moses to speak to a rock so that it would bring forth water. But the people’s faithfulness drove Moses to the point where he cried, “Hear, now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?” and he struck the rock and water came forth. But Moses had violated God’s command, for the rock was a type of Christ. This action cost Moses the Promised Land, but it did not cost him God. God brought him into the land, in later years, to stand on the Mount of Transfiguration with Jesus, which is a better entrance than going over Jordan. But he could have led the people into the Promised Land. What a tragedy that the people, by their faithlessness, or in the case of Elijah, by their silence, allowed God’s leader to be broken.

There is an interesting paradox: God predestines certain people, but He gives them the freedom to maneuver. Obviously, any one of those 7,000 could have reached up, taken God at His word, and acted on His promise. God’s word waited for a man of faith. And once Elijah had lost faith, we can only wonder what other promises of God remained unfulfilled until another man or woman of faith came along. We can only wonder how many times in history one of God’s leaders has been broken by the inaction of 7,000 people who did not make themselves known to anyone but God.

The silence of God’s people can cause a man of God to fail. It is a shame that God had to tell Elijah there were 7,000 people who had not bowed their knees to Baal. Where were they when Elijah called down fire from heaven on the mountain? All of my life I have heard people preach, “Don’t be discouraged: God has 7,000 more.” I am always inclined to ask, “Well, where are they?” The answer I usually receive is “God knows who they are.” Sure, He does. But Elijah didn’t know it; and had he known it, he might not have fled and failed. Have you ever sought help from someone when you were at a breaking point? Did you ever receive encouragement from a faithful preacher of God’s word and that word saved your spiritual life? So where are you when that preacher gets discouraged?

We will never know what Elijah might have accomplished for God had he not fled to the juniper tree. Neither will we know what reward in eternity those 7,000 might have received if they had only announced themselves. Where were they when Jezebel threatened Elijah’s life? Imagine if they had stood up and said, “Over our 7,000 dead bodies will you harm him!” Elijah never would have fled to the juniper tree. The message is to you silent ones, wherever you are: you had better hear the word of the Lord.

Even though Elijah might have been encouraged by knowing there were 7,000, it did not excuse him for fleeing under pressure. It is a tragedy that when the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the cave, he was not instructed to take some giant step of faith. God told Elijah to anoint the new kings of Syria and Israel, and He told Elijah, “Elisha the son of Shaphat…shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.” Instead of climbing to new heights, Elijah spent his later years training his successor.

When you consider the rewards in eternity, you cannot keep playing around with God forever. There is no place in the walk of faith for quitters and those who run away. But if one of God’s leaders flees, that does not excuse the 7,000. If those 7,000 reveal their presence only to God, His leaders might feel like they have been left alone and that all men seek to kill them. The 7,000 who remain silent in a time of crisis, in God’s objective eyes, can be blamed if the man of faith breaks and flees. But no matter what the 7,000 do, it is still not an adequate excuse for God’s man to flee. So, why don’t we all get our heads together? God has promised in Joshua 23:10, “One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.” Paul said, “Follow me as I follow Christ.” I ask you today, are you one of those 7,000 silent ones? Or will you have the decency to declare yourself and share in the rewards of the victory? Let’s stay on the battlefield together until we have won. We are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus!

Reprinted with permission from Pastor Melissa Scott




THE TWO WITNESSES IN REVELATION

I can only find two people in the Old Testament who were taken up to heaven and did not see death – Enoch and Elijah. Not counting Jesus’ ascension, the closest thing found to being raptured was when, after baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch, the Spirit of the Lord miraculously "snatched" Philip away. The eunuch saw him no longer and continued on his way rejoicing, while Philip instantly found himself at Azotus (Ashdod). From there, he traveled north, preaching the gospel in every town until he reached Caesarea.

Moses was not raptured, as some have argued. According to Deuteronomy 34:5-6, Moses died on Mount Nebo and God personally buried him in a valley in Moab. His grave remains hidden to this day. In the Gospel of Matthew, Moses appears alongside Elijah thousands of years later, talking with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. Because Elijah was famously taken to heaven alive, his presence makes sense, but Moses' presence strongly implies he was already resurrected. So while Elijah and Enoch are the prime examples of people being raptured because they never died, Moses is largely considered one of the first human beings to be bodily resurrected.

With these facts in mind, I ask the question: who are the two witnesses mentioned in Revelation? In Revelation 11:3–12 is a description of two individuals who will help accomplish God’s work during the tribulation: “I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth” (Revelation 11:3). Nowhere does the Bible identify these two witnesses by name, although people through the years have speculated.

The two witnesses in Revelation will have miraculous powers to accompany their message (Revelation 11:6), and no one will be able to stop them in their work (verse 5). At the end of their ministry, when they have said all they need to say, the beast will kill them and the wicked world will rejoice, allowing the bodies of the fallen prophets to lie in the streets (verses 7–10). Three and a half days later, however, God’s two witnesses will be resurrected and, in full view of their enemies, ascend to heaven (verses 11–12).

There are three primary theories on the identity of the two witnesses in Revelation: (1) Moses and Elijah, (2) Enoch and Elijah, and (3) two unknown believers whom God calls to be His witnesses in the end times.

(1) Moses and Elijah are seen as possibilities for the two witnesses due to the specific miracles that John says the witnesses will perform. The witnesses will have the power to turn water into blood (Revelation 11:6), which duplicates a famous miracle of Moses (Exodus 7). And the witnesses will have the power to destroy their enemies with fire (Revelation 11:5), which corresponds to an event in Elijah’s life (2 Kings 1). Also giving strength to this view is the fact that Moses and Elijah both appeared with Jesus at the transfiguration (Matthew 17:3–4). Further, Jewish tradition expects Moses and Elijah to return, based on the prophecy of Elijah’s coming in Malachi 4:5 and God’s promise to raise up a prophet like Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18), which some Jews believe necessitates Moses’ return.

(2) Enoch and Elijah are seen as possibilities for the two witnesses because of the unique circumstances surrounding their exit from the world. Enoch and Elijah, as far as we know, are the only two individuals whom God has taken directly to heaven without experiencing death (Genesis 5:24; 2 Kings 2:11). Proponents of this view point to Hebrews 9:27, which says that all men are appointed to die once. The fact that neither Enoch nor Elijah has yet experienced death seems to qualify them for the job of the two witnesses, who will be killed when their job is done. In addition, both Enoch and Elijah were prophets who pronounced God’s judgment (1 Kings 17:1; Jude 1:14–15).

(3) Two unknowns are seen as possibilities for the two witnesses because of the lack of specificity in Revelation 11. Scripture does not identify the two witnesses by name, and no well-known person is associated with their coming. God is perfectly capable of taking two “ordinary” believers and enabling them to perform the same signs and wonders that Moses and Elijah did. There is nothing in Revelation 11 that requires us to assume a “famous” identity for the two witnesses.

So, who are the two witnesses of Revelation? The Bible does not say. All three views presented above are valid and plausible interpretations that Christians can have. The identity of the two witnesses is an issue Christians should not be dogmatic about. I personally believe that these two witnesses are Moses and Elisha. What do you think?





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