{"id":1651,"date":"2025-03-08T05:28:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T13:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/?page_id=1651"},"modified":"2025-03-08T05:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T13:44:02","slug":"who-are-the-two-witnesses-in-revelation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/?page_id=1651","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Two Witnesses in Revelation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><strong>1. The Two Witnesses Represent God&#8217;s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">\u201cAnd I will give power unto my&nbsp;<strong>two witnesses<\/strong>, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.\u201d<\/mark><br>Revelation 11:3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Old and New Testaments have testified about God throughout history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Sackcloth&#8221; signifies mourning or a time of hardship, which aligns with periods where God&#8217;s Word has been suppressed or persecuted (by the Papacy of course from the 500&#8217;s to the 1700&#8217;s, when reading the bible, or even owning one, was forbidden and punished).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In\u00a0<strong>Revelation 11:4<\/strong>, the two witnesses are described as two olive trees and two lampstands, symbolically standing before God:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">These are the&nbsp;<strong>two olive trees<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>and the two candlesticks<\/strong>&nbsp;standing before the God of the earth.<\/mark><br>Revelation 11:4<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Thy word is a&nbsp;<strong>lamp&nbsp;<\/strong>unto my feet, and a&nbsp;<strong>light&nbsp;<\/strong>unto my path.<\/mark><br>Psalm 119:105<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The two witnesses symbolize Scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/?page_id=1655\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Two Witnesses Represent God&#8217;s Word \u201cAnd I will give power unto my&nbsp;two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.\u201dRevelation 11:3 The Old and New Testaments have testified about God throughout history. &#8220;Sackcloth&#8221; signifies mourning or a time of hardship, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/?page_id=1651\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":545,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1651\/revisions\/1665"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimeisnear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}