Chapter Twenty-Five/Reviving the Two Witnesses - 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 that the great city is Sodom and Egypt. Well, literal Jerusalem was once called Sodom because of her unclean practices. (Isaiah1:8-10; compare Ezekiel 16:49, 53-58.) And Egypt, the first world power, sometimes appears as a pictures a defiled a "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: Chapter Twenty-Five/Reviving the Two Witnesses -Raised Again!

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