Chapter Twenty-Five/Reviving the Two Witnesses -Raised Again!

 The public press joined the clergy in vilifying God's people saying: "The finis of the Finished Mystery has been given."  Nothing, though, could have been further from the truth! The two witnesses did not stay dead. We read: "And after the three and a half days spirit life from God entered into them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them. And they heard a loud voice out of heaven say to them: 'Come on up here.' And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them." (Revelation 11:11, 12) Thus, they had an experience similar to that of the dry bones in the valley that Ezekiel visited in vision. Jehovah breathed upon those dry bones, and they came to life, providing a picture of the rebirth of the nation of Israel after 70 years of captivity in Babylon. (Ezekiel 37:1-14) These two prophecies, in Ezekiel and Revelation, had their striking modern-day fulfillment in 1919, when Jehovah restored his "deceased" witnesses to vibrant life. 

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