Revelation 11:3

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. I WILL GIVE POWER - or commission. There is no "power" in the Greek. MY TWO WITNESSES - `the two witnesses of me.' The article implies the two were well known. PROPHESY - preach under the Spirit's inspiration, denouncing judgments against the apostate. They are symbolized as "the two olive trees," "the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth." The reference is to ; ; , where two individuals, 'the two anointed ones,' are meant-Joshua and Zerubbabel, who ministered to the Jewish Church-as...

3-13 In the time of treading down, God kept his faithful witnesses to attest the truth of his word and worship, and the excellence of his ways, The number of these witnesses is small, yet enough. They prophesy in sackcloth. It shows their afflicted, persecuted state, and deep sorrow for the abominations against which they protested. They are supported during their great and hard work, till it is done. When they had prophesied in sackcloth the greatest part of 1260 years, antichrist, the great instrument of the devil, would war against them, with force and violence for a time. Determined rebels against the light rejoice, as on some happy event, when they can silence, drive to a distance, or destroy the faithful servants of Christ, whose doctrine and conduct torment them. It does not appear that the term is yet expired, and the witnesses are not a present exposed to endure such terrible o...

Verse Revelation 11:3. _MY TWO WITNESSES_] This is extremely obscure; the conjectures of interpreters are as unsatisfactory as they are endless on this point. _Conjecturas conjecturis superstruunt, parum_ _verosimiles_, says Rosenmuller: _quorum sententias enarrare, meum_ _non est_. I say the same. Those who wish to be amused or bewildered, may have recourse both to ancients and moderns on this subject....

AND I WILL GIVE POWER UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES - In respect to this important passage Revelation 11:3 I propose to pursue the same method which I have pursued all along in this exposition: first, to examine the meaning of the words and phrases in the symbol, with a purpose to ascertain the fair signification of the symbols; and, secondly, to inquire into the application - that is, to inquire whether any events have occurred which, in respect to their character and to the time of their occurrence, can be shown to be a fair fulfillment of the language. AND I WILL GIVE POWER - The word “power” is not in the original. The Greek is simply, “I will give” - that is, I will grant to my two witnesses the right or the power of prophesying during the time specified - correctly expressed in the margin, “give unto my two witne

EXPOSITION REVELATION 11:1 AND THERE WAS GIVEN ME A REED LIKE UNTO A ROD. We are not told by whom the _reed _is given, but in Revelation 21:1. the angel has the reed, and so also in Ezekiel 40:1., upon which the incident seems founded (see Ezekiel 40:1.; and cf. the reference to the outer court in Ezekiel 40:17). The reed is "like a rod;" that is, like to a _staff. _It is for a measuring line, as in...

AND I WILL GIVE [POWER] UNTO MY TWO WITNESSES,.... By whom are meant, not Enoch and Elias, as some of the ancient fathers thought, who, they supposed, would come before the appearance of Christ, and oppose antichrist, and be slain by him, which sense the Papists greedily catch at; nor are the Scriptures, the two Testaments, Old and New, designed, though their name and number agree, and also their office, which is to testify of Christ; but then to be clothed in sackcloth, to be killed, and rise again, and ascend to heaven, are things that cannot so well be accommodated to them: but these witnesses intend the ministers of the Gospel and churches of Christ, who have bore testimony for Christ, and against antichrist, ever since he appeared in the world; and particularly the churches and ministers in Piedmont bid fair for this character; who were upon the spot when antichrist arose, always bo...

CHAPTER 11:1-18 Revelation 11:1 . We see at once how Jewish things come now into view. To apply these verses to the Church and make the temple the Church is absolutely wrong. The temple and the altar are Jewish; the holy city is Jerusalem. After the Church has left the earth the Jewish people will be fully restored to their own land, and their land restored to them. They will possess Jerusalem once more. When the Jews are once more masters in their own promised land they will erect another temple and then restore the Levitical worship as far as it is possible. Such a temple must be in Jerusalem. (See Isaiah 66:1 .) In that temple the personal Antichrist, the beast out of the land of whom we shall read in chapter 13, will appear and claim divine worship. (See...

THE INTERLUDE CONTINUED. THE SECOND EPISODE. The first two verses are introductory, and represent the survey or measuring of the holy city by the seer. Then comes the prophecy concerning the two witnesses, followed by the first appearance in the book of the beast or Antichrist (Revelation 11:7). REVELATION 11:1. A REED: a measuring rod (Ezekiel 40 ff., Zechariah 2:1), Ezekiel's reed (Ezekiel 40:5) was nine feet long. MEASURE THE TEMPLE: the allusion is not to the heavenly sanctuary but to the Temple at Jerusalem. The object of the measuring was to provide for its preservation in the day of crisis. The referen

ANTICHRIST (Revelation 11:1-19) In the passages of the Revelation which we are now about to approach we will on many occasions meet the figure of Antichrist. This figure has exercised a strange fascination over the minds of men and many have been the speculations and theories about him. It will, therefore, be convenient to collect the material about Antichrist at this stage and to try to piece it into a connected whole. We may lay it down as a general principle that Antichrist stands for the power in the universe which is against God. Just as the Christ is the Holy One and the Anointed King of God, so Antichrist is the Unholy One and the King of all evil. Just as the Christ is the incarnation of God and goodness, so Antichrist is the incarnation of the Devil and of evil. The idea of a force opposed to God was not new. Antichrist had his predecessors long befo

GIVE. Add " _power_ ". Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6. MY TWO WITNESSES. God has not specified their names. We know that two men are to be raised up "in that day", endowed with wondrous powers to execute. special mission. They are called emphatically "MY two witnesses "(See Revelation 1:5). PROPHESY. See Revelation 10:11 and App-189. A THOUSAND... DAYS. forty-two months, Revelation 11:2. The periods are probably synchronous. THOUSAND. See Revelation 14:20 and App-197....