TribulationSigns said:
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You are getting yourself too confused with too many "what ifs" and speculations.
Slow down and read the verse:
Rev 11:7
(7) And
when they shall have finished their testimony, the
beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Here is an easy question for you. When will the beast comes out of the bottomless pit? Will it be before or after the 1,260 days testimony of Two Witnesses?
Then we will go from there with 42 months.
I tend to think it's after, though a member here recently managed to convince me there is only one period of time involved, rather than one period following another period. And since there is such a thing as having been right to begin with, I am subject to change my mind back to how I initially understood it. Who knows, maybe you may end up aiding me in doing just that.
I noticed. I can see that they are trying to move the "periods" around to fit their doctrines.
Only the Holy Spirit can aid you with that. I only testify what Scripture says. I will explain a little bit, so please bear with me and consider this.
Rev 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...........................
The word "power" is not in the Greek texts....
at least use a
correct translation TS, as you are "adding" to the Scripture to fit it into
your own doctrines.....
[Please view my Revelation Chapt 11 verse by verse thread:]
Revelation chapt 11 verse study
Oct 15, 2008
3 and I shall be giving to the two witnesses of Me
and they shall be prophesying days a thousand
twohundred sixty having been about-cast sackcloths
Greek New Testament - Parallel Greek New Testament by John Hurt
Stephens 1550 Textus Receptus
kai dwsw toiV dusin martusin mou
kai profhteusousin hmeraV ciliaV diakosiaV exhkonta peribeblhmenoi sakkouV
Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus
kai dwsw toiV dusin martusin mou
kai profhteusousin hmeraV ciliaV diakosiaV exhkonta peribeblhmenoi sakkouV
Byzantine Majority
kai dwsw toiV dusi martusi mou
kai profhteusousin hmeraV ciliaV diakosiaV exhkonta peribeblhmenoi sakkouV
Alexandrian
kai dwsw toiV dusin martusin mou
kai profhteusousin hmeraV ciliaV diakosiaV exhkonta peribeblhmenoi sakkouV
Hort and Westcott
kai dwsw toiV dusin martusin mou
kai profhteusousin hmeraV ciliaV diakosiaV exhkonta peribeblhmenouV sakkouV
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Revelation 11:3 biblehub
New International Version
And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."
Berean Literal Bible
And I will grant to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth
Christian Standard Bible
I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth."
International Standard Version
I will give my two witnesses who wear sackcloth the authority to prophesy for 1,260 days."
NET Bible
And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.
English Revised Version
And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
Young's Literal Translation
and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;
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Revelation 11:3 Commentaries:
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
3. And I will give power] Better, as in the margin, “I will give to My two Witnesses that they may prophesy”—the Hebrew idiom being literally reproduced.
my two witnesses] The traditional view of these, dating from the second century, is that they are Enoch and Elijah—the two prophets who, having (for a time) finished their work on earth, have left it without death: but who, since “it is appointed for all men once to die,” will, as is here revealed, come on earth again, to prophesy and suffer death in the days of Antichrist.
As to Elijah, there seems to be little doubt that this view is true. The prophecy of
Malachi 4:5 has indeed received a fulfilment in the mission of the Baptist (St
Luke 1:17). But St
Matthew 17:11-12 perhaps implies that this fulfilment is not the final one—especially when compared with St
John 1:21. Really the plain sense of these passages seems to be, that Elijah will actually be sent before the second Coming of Christ, as one in his spirit and power was before His first.
But the personality of his colleague is more doubtful. Of Enoch we know so little, that internal evidence hardly applies either way: all we can say is, that he was recognised by popular Jewish belief as a seer of apocalypses, and that his character as a prophet and preacher of repentance is recognised by St Jude. This harmonises well enough with his being intended: but the internal evidence of Scripture itself points rather to Moses and Elijah being the two witnesses. Their names are coupled in the prophecy of
Malachi 4:4-5, as well as in the history of the Transfiguration: and
Revelation 11:6 ascribes to these prophets the plague actually inflicted by Moses, as well as that by Elijah. This modification of the traditional view was first suggested by the abbot Joachim, the great mediæval commentator on this book; but it has found wide acceptance in modern times. It may be observed, that as Elijah is doubtless still living a supernatural life in the body, so Moses must have been raised to such life for the Transfiguration: but he is not necessarily incapable of death, any more than were Lazarus and others who have been raised from the dead.
1260 days] See on
Revelation 11:2.
