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It is but a mercy that we (believers) escape death at the hands of men who hate Christ. Christ haters are full of the Serpents's venom. They would extinguish Christianity and all of the saints of God if they could,if they had the power.
Just prior to the Second Coming of Christ we see that the two witnesses in Revelation chapter 11 are put to death, that is, the church as a missionary organization has accomplished its purpose. God through the church will have called the elect from the four corners of the earth. (Matt. 24:31) The body of Christ consisting of gentile believers will be complete when and the fullness of the gentiles has come in.
The bodies of these two witnesses will not even be allowed a proper burial but will lie in the street and those around them, the unbelievers who were tortured and tormented by the true believer's preaching symbolized by these two witnesses call to repentance and faith will wickedly rejoice over them,( remember the muslims in Afghanistan rejoicing and giving candy as gifts to one another just after the World Trade Centers were destroyed?) and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. (Rev. 11:10)
"The world now governed by the man of sin, the antichrist will rejoice and be glad because the gospel is no longer being preached. They no longer have to hear about the true gospel and the Biblical doctrines of Jesus Christ, sin, hell, damnation and judgment.
The many false gospels will have inundated the world like a flood and taken over people's minds. These will have the mark of the beast and receive the eternal wrath of God as the bowls of God's temporal wrath will be poured out during this time of great tribulation, even the final tribulation spoke of in Matt 24. The day of salvation will have almost past because they did not repent of their sins when it was still the day of salvation.
But then what happens? There is like a reviving to life or a resurrection and these two witnesses come to life again. It is possible that this could have reference to the Jew's salvation and particularly those living in the nation of Israel as well as a large number scattered over the face of the earth, who during this time, a short period of time (3 and 1/2 days) during the final tribulation when the fulness of the gentiles is complete and God begins to pour out his judgements upon the earth.
The false churches and many professing Christians who thought they were saved but denied the one and only true God, Jesus Christ, will have succumbed to the great lie as deception took them willingly or by surprise because they didn't receive a love of the truth even Jesus Christ and his word.
During this final apostasy there will be some believers but many will have lost their lives for the gospel. Nevertheless, a remnant will remain but there will be so few Christians on the earth and because the gospel has been silenced to such a large degree, the elect Jews will miraculously by God's sovereign good pleasure be brought to saving faith in the Messiah as it says in Romans chapter eleven. This would seem to tie into the statements of vs.22 "if they, (the natural branches- natural Jews)abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in : for God is able to graff them in again." and verse 25 "blindness in part is happened to
Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles, be come in. 26. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27. For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins." This will be, as it were, life from the dead (a resurrection) because they will be grafted into their own olive tree, the gentiles or wild branches having been cut off because of unbelief and apostasy just prior to the Second Coming. See 2 Thess. 2:3 ff. "...for that day (the Second Coming or day of Christ) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition."
In other words a general apostasy will precede the final judgement day when Christ returns. The Puritan's and many Reformed theologians have seen this man of sin as the Roman Catholic church. In fact it is more than just this. Many
Protestant churches have and will continue to join hands with the Romanists as the ecumenical movement dominates the religious world headed up by perhaps a one world religious ruler like the pope, who speaks many languages and so can reach the masses and who will work signs and wonders, pretended miracles and various diabolical deceptions supported with false unbiblical doctrine which will deceive everyone except the elect of God which will be in small number at this time compared with the world population as a whole.
Carlton Pruitt ministers the gospel to the Los Angeles area. Formerly a Hollywood actor (SAG member)and junk removal expert he now spends most of his time studying the scriptures, writing articles, hymns and poems and doing street preaching. See his videos on www.YouTube.com. Type in LAStreetPreacher in the search bar. CONTACT at [email protected]
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