The Two Witnesses In The Scripture

Many Christians are curious about who the two witnesses in Revelation 11:3-13 happen to be. These two witnesses are among the most dramatic characters in the Scripture. They prophesy before the world for three and a half years. During that time, they can strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they desire and cannot be harmed by their enemies. When they have finished their testimony, they are killed by the beast but they rise to life in three and a half days. In this paper, I will discuss the two witnesses as mentioned in the passage and conclude that the two witnesses are symbol of the church today. I will include the discussion of the identity of the two witnesses, period of witness, location of the witnesses, the ministry of the two witnesses, apparent …show more content…
Based on above objections, I find it difficult to accept the view to identify the two witnesses as expression of biblical concepts.
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The literalist believes that the two witnesses will be actual people who will appear in the final days. There are a number of proposals as to the identity of the two witnesses, such as Elijah and Moses, Elijah and Enoch, Elijah and John the Baptist, Elijah and John the Apostle, Peter and John etc. and there is also proposal for two unknown persons who will minister in the spirit and power of Moses and Elijah in the future. This topic alone is a good research project. For the sake of the focus of this paper, I will not go into the detail discussion. However, I will discuss a few of the most popular proposals.
- Enoch and Elijah Early Christians, such as Hippolytus of Rome and Tertullian have concluded that the two witnesses would be Enoch and Elijah. The reason is that these prophets did not die because God "took" them according to other Biblical passages. One difficulty for this proposal is that failure of Enoch to match the criteria assigned to the two witnesses in