Ten Plagues: Two Witnesses Piercing the Tribulation Darkness
They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. Isaiah 61:4
God's world has been defiled and desolated as darkness engulfs the earth. It is during this time of engulfing darkness that the ancient power of the witness will go forth. If you are to survive the Tribulation, Days of Slaughter, you are required to enter through a venerable door. Those who overcome will enter through an ancient and rarely understood Door of the Witness. Today there is interest in opening interdimensional doorways and portals accessing wickedness but doorways were originally designed, from the foundation of the earth, to access the conquering power of God. Jesus Christ is calling you to reassert the long lost strength of the witness.
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10: 9-10
Overcoming as a Witness
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death. Revelation 12:11
Faithful witnesses will return or repeat what he saw and experienced. Being a witness requires more than just to see. A witness is be a presence or force to observe and to testify to an act that is formal or legally.
The English word witness and testimony in their ancient setting, mean to see or observe the door. The door of the house is the most repeatedly used part of the whole structure. We constantly go in and out of the door. It is a repeated action and probably one of the most daily, cyclical things we do. The ancient meaning of this word in its root is to observe and/or repeat an action. In the original language time is cyclical and not linear.
~Witness is translated as forever and ever in Exodus 15.
~Witness means evidence
~Witness means the person who testifies
~Witness bears evidence or proof in a legal or societal proceeding.
~Witness can speak or write or heap stones of their evidence or proof.
You are the Living Stones Delineating God's Boundary
You, my dear friends are God's witness, a living stone, delineating God's boundary. You may not think of yourself as such, but you are His precious treasure.
Throughout history heaps of stones were used as a boundary marker, covenant or allegiance such as between Jacob and Laban in Genesis 31:44,52; Rueben and Gad as covenant between tribes in Joshua 22:10-34; and Joshua used stone witness pledging Israel's allegiance to God in Joshua 24:26-27.
Sacred Stones
The Canaanites, pagans in the Middle East, erected sacred stones to honor their gods, to declare covenants and treaties between cities, or to honor an important event that could only be explained by the supernatural. These stones were extremely heavy and stood as tall as twenty feet high.
Witnesses can signify evil. Idols witness to the worthlessness of the false gods they represent. Isaiah 44:9
Gezer Stones
Although many standing stones were simple and small, archaeologists uncovered several impressive stones at Tel Gezer. The stones, which were probably put in place before 3000 BC, weigh more than 25 tons each, stand 20 feet tall, and are sunk 20 feet into the earth.
Hebrew Practice
The Hebrew word translated standing stones means to set up. The Israelite's followed ancient customs by setting up standing stones as a reminder of God's covenant and supernatural acts on their behalf. The story of the stone was passed down from generation to generation through oral tradition.
Biblical Examples
Jacob set up stone pillars at Bethel in order to remember his powerful dream.
Moses built twelve standing stones at the foot of Mount Sinai after receiving the Ten Commandments and other laws.
The Israelite's erected standing stones to remember their miraculous crossing of the Jordan River.
New Testament
In the New Testament, Peter builds on standing stone imagery when he describes believers as living stones, 1 Peter 2:5. Peter wants his readers to think of themselves as living standing stones as people who live out their faith so boldly that others take notice.
Witness is masculine alluding to the power of that position.
~Emphatically affirming
~Absolute Genesis 31:48
~Testimony, evidence of things heap of stones Genesis 31:44,48,52
~Eternity
~A person in heaven as in Job 16:19 or earth as in I Samuel 12:5
~Against persons as in Jeremiah 29:23 or Malachi 3:5
~Between persons as in Genesis 31:50
~To nations Isaiah 55:4
Witnesses are required for the following:
~Transfer of property
~Betrothal
~Testimony in court
~Mouth is critical to the witness:
There are also false witnesses which we shall see dramatically increase as Satanic powers arise. The first occasion of a false witness is in Exodus 20:16. According to Deuteronomy 19:16-21 a person convicted false witness bears the penalty that would have been inflicted upon the accused.
Cycles of Time
Each of us comes from the earth and so at the end of our days we shall return at the completion of a cycle within time. In the time between our birth and death we have an opportunity of salvation.
Salvation is likened unto a betrothal and so a witness can be understood as someone who adorns, arrays, or adorns them. Clothes and adornments testify of the nature, seasons and even attitudes of a person. The idea is consistent within cyclical patterns. Our witness is not under the constraints of time.
Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in God, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
This reminds of the good tidings that... In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. John 1:1-8
John the Baptist came to bear witness to the Light, though his garments were of humility and repentance, not the adornment of salvation. When one is grieving over his sin, calling upon his Savior in true grief over his or her sin, one refrains temporarily from the adornments of salvation. Humble clothing, sackcloth and ashes, is like the widow's garb of repentance.
The very first appearance of witness is in Genesis 3:
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Our most common use of this word relates to a courtroom scene. Part of the nuance of this word is evidence. When Noah and his family walked back on solid ground, God told them that as long as the earth remains there will be seedtime, harvest, summer and winter. A constant testimony of the creation and how our heavenly Father teaches us according to Psalm 19: A testimony of two or three witnesses is a repeating of the evidence. The witness of His people takes us back to the testimony. There is only one thing in all of Scripture that is called the testimony and that is the Ark of the Covenant.
Exodus 25:16And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
What was placed into the ark? The manna, the rod of Aaron, and the Commandments which established the template for overcoming at the End of the Age: THE TESTIMONY, THE WITNESS, and SUBMISSION.
The Art of Testimony
When Jesus sends his witnesses out in Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:4-8 He tells them to go and teach all nations and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth to restore again the kingdom to Israel
There are two types of witnesses are the two types of witnesses one that attests to and one that testifies to the absoluteness of God the Father, Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit.
No testimony per se is required in order to prove the existence of the immanent Divine power that sustains all of creation.
At this juncture in history we should be immersed and to contemplate the Word as Truth. In Job’s words, "By [contemplating] my flesh, I behold God" Job 19:26 — just as the soul fills and animates the body, so must energy that fill and animate the universe.
No testimony is required to substantiate the existence of God's power that brings reality into our being.
What does require testimony is that salvation offered by Jesus is not an abstract concept but attainable. The veracity of this notion must be established by witnesses who will attest and testify that their salvation is in Jesus. This calls for boldness.
God Himself, as Witness
When walk in the power of the witness we emulate our Creator for He set this power into motion. The Lord God Himself is sometimes called upon as witness as in Genesis 31:50 and Malachi 2:14. He can also be the prosecuting witness as we see in I Samuel 12:5; Jeremiah 29:23; 49:5; Micah 1:2; Malachi. 3:5.
Heaven, Earth, and Inanimate Objects as Witnesses
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