when you think about the time periods mentioned in Daniel and Revelation they mostly refer to a time of 1260 YEARS according to SDAs, I dont want to argue about the origin of the assumption that a day in the bible means a day in real life
but
what has always been a mystery is
the beast of revelation that wil have power from 538 to 1798
and the two witnesses
which according to SDA refer to the old and the new testament.
logically the time frame should be the same, right??
now how does the two witnesses especially its characteristics (doing wonders and signs) fit into that time frame, did everyone watch dem die in 1798 did they rise in 1801 1/2??
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.
4
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Zechariah 4
3And
two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
4So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
5Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
6Then he answered and spake unto me, saying,
This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
The witnesses of God have always been the law and the prophet: the Word of God.
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem, Israel, not Sodom and Egypt. Spiritually Sodom is sexual immortality and Egypt is atheism and defiance to God. Which power would rise at the end of the 1260 year reign of papal supremacy with the two fore-mentioned traits?
Atheism:
"France is the only nation in the world concerning which the authentic record survives, that as a nation she lifted her hand in open rebellion against the Author of the universe. Plenty of blasphemers, plenty of infidels, there have been, and still continue to be, in England, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere; but France stands apart in the world's history as the single state which, by the decree of her Legislative Assembly, pronounced that there was no God, and of which the entire population of the capital, and a vast majority elsewhere, women as well as men, danced and sang with joy in accepting the announcement."-- Blackwood's Magazine, November, 1870.
"A dechristianization of France started in 1793 . . . first with the Cult of Reason, then with that of the Supreme Being. [The foremost aim was] To defend the country and the Revolution . . . against the priests, who showed themselves hostile. It seemed as if the priesthood was indestructible except by the overthrow of its altars. That work was carried out by revolutionary patriotism, and supported by a movement of free-thought, which had long been bred through the intolerance of the State religion, while philosophers like Voltaire stimulated and disseminated it. . . . Supposing the success of the National Defense had been delayed, and a liberating victory . . . [had been delayed, too, allowing time for the masses to become more agitated] it is a question whether the protracted Terror, considered as a dechristianizing factor, would not have dealt the death-blow to the Catholic religion in particular, nay, to Christianity in general. . . .
"When I speak of Christianity, I refer chiefly to catholicism, but the two French Protestant Churches, the Lutheran and the Calvinistic, were also affected by the anti-religious movement of 1793. . . ." Preface (p. 13) of Christianity and the French Revolution. A. A. Aulard, translated by Lady Frazer, 1927. Ernest Benn Limited, London.
Sexual immortality:
Intimately connected with these laws affecting religion, was that which reduced the union of marriage--the most sacred engagement which human beings can form, and the permanence of which leads most strongly to the consolidation of society--to the state of a mere civil contract of a transitory character, which any two persons might engage in and cast loose at pleasure. . . . If fiends had set themselves to work to discover a mode of most effectually destroying whatever is venerable, graceful, or permanent in domestic life, and of obtaining at the same time an assurance that the mischief which it was their object to create should be perpetuated from one generation to another, they could not have invented a more effectual plan that the degradation of marriage. . . . Sophie Arnoult, an actress famous for the witty things she said, described the republican marriage as 'the sacrament of adultery. --Sir Walter Scott, Life of Napoleon, vol. 1, ch. 17
The timeline of 3.5 years falls within the 1260 years of Papal supremacy.
We saw in 1793
Jan: Louis 16th was beheaded.
Oct: the introduction of a new calendar of 10 day weeks aim at at eliminating the day of worship.
Nov: Goddess of Reason replaced the God of the universe.
Nov: The burning of the bibles.
1797
Churches reopened.
worship service resumed.
After the French Revolution in the late 1700's and early 1800's, bible societies (British and Foreign Bible Society, American Bible Society, American Board of Foreign Missions...) were formed and widely circulated the bibles.
