REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Five - The Two Witnesses Are Killed - Conclusion

 John gives us some clues. He says that Jesus was impaled there. So we immediately think of Jerusalem. But he also says thaty the great city is called Sodom amd Egypt. Well, literal Jerusalame was once called Sodom because of her unclean practices.  (Isaiah 1:-10; compare Ezekiel 16:49. 53-58.)   And Egypt, the first world power, sometimes appears as a picture of this world system of things.  (Isaiah 19:1, 19; Joel 3:19) Hence, this great city pictures a defiled "Jerusalem" that claims to worship God but that has become  unclean and sinful, like Sodom, and a part of this satanic world system of things, like Egypt. It pictures Christendom, the modern equivalent of unfaithful  Jerusalem, the organization whose members had so much reason to rejoice when they silenced the disturbing preaching of the two witnesses.

Next time: REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Five - Raised Again!

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