Reviving the Two Witnesses - Conclusion of The Two Witnesses

  What of Elijah?  In the days of the kings of Israel, this prophet proclaimed  a drought ass an expression of Jehovah's indignation on the Baal-worshipping Israelites.  It lasted three and a half years.  ( 1 Kings 17:1; 18:41-45; Luke 4:25;  James 5:17) Later, when unfaithful King Ahaziah sent soldiers to force Elijah into his royal presence, the prophet called down fire from heave to consume the soldiers.  Only when a military commander showed respect  for his position as a prophet did Elijah consent to accompany him to the king.  (2 Kings 1:5-16) Likewise, between 1914 and 1918, the anointed remnant boldly  drew attention to the spirirtual drought in Christendom and warned of fiery judgment at "the coming of the great and fear-inspiring day of Jehovah." - MALACHI 4:1, 5; AMOS 8:11.

John goes on to say of the two witnesses:  "And they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every sort of plague as often as they wish." (Revelation 11:6b) In order to persuade Pharaoh to let Israel go free, Jehovah used Moses in striking oppressive Egypt with plagues, including turning the water into blood.  Centuries later, the Philistine enemies of Israel  well remembered Jehovah's acts against Egypt causing them to cry:  "Who will save us from the hand of this  majestic God?  This is the true God that was the smiter of Egypt with every sort of slaughter ["plague," Revised Standard   Version] in the wilderness."  (1 Samue;l 4:8; Psalam 105:29)   Moses portrayed Jesus, who had authority to pronounce God's judgments on the religious leaders  of his day.  (Matthew 23:13; 28:18; Acts 3:22) And during the first world war Christ's brothers, the two witnesses, exposed  the death-dealing quality of  "the waters" that Christendom was serving to her flocks.

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