Christian Gedge said:
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I think the taking up of the two witnesses
is the rapture!
I believe you may be right C G.
Might even be the 1st century Jewish Christian Saints after the tribulation but before the wrath of 70AD Jerusalem?
Lazarus and 2 witnesses of Reve 11 similarity
Acts 1 and Revelation 11 Ascending in cloud
Ezekiel 37:10 And I prophecy as He instructed
and the spirit/breath is coming in them and they are living and are standing on their feet, an army/host, great, exceedingly-exceedingly. 11 And He is saying to me "Son of Adam, the bones, these are
whole house of Yisra'el they behold! ones saying ' bones of us dry, our hope perishes, we are severed to ourselves'. [Luke 2:34/ Revelation 11:11]
Luke 2:34 And Simon blesses them and said toward Mariam His mother,
"behold! this-One is set/lying into a Fall and Resurrection/standing-up<386> of many in the Israel, and into a Sign being spoken against"
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Revelation 11:11 And after the three days and half days,
a breath of life out of the God entered in them and they stand upon their feet and fear great fall upon the ones observing them.
12 And they hear a Voice great out of the Heaven saying to them "
ascend ye here!"
And they ascended into the heaven in the cloud....
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Matthew 19:28
And Jesus said to them, 'Verily I say to you, that ye who did follow me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man may sit upon a throne of his glory, shall sit --
ye also -- upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel;
Luke 22:30
that ye may eat and may drink at My table, in My kingdom, and
may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
Revelation 20:4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;