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The True Meaning and Significance of the “Two Witnesses” in Revelation 11

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The True Meaning and Significance of the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11In the Book of Revelation, Chapter 11 we can read that it speaks about Two Witnesses:And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth. "These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.Revelation 11:3-6 (NIV)These two witnesses mentioned in the Book of Revelation speak about the prophets Elijah and Moses.During Prophet Elijahs ministry, the land of Israel experienced severe drought (1 Kings 17)and during his time that fire came down (out of the heavens) to consume the soldiers who tried to capture him. (2 Kings 1:8-16) While the prophet Moses was the one whom God gave the power to turn waters into blood and launch plagues in order to convince the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the Israelites go (Exodus 7:17).What does God mean when He spoke about these two witnesses? Will He really bring them back to life again?As water disappears from the sea or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more,men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.Job 14:11-12 (NIV)No, there is no actual resurrection of the dead.What will return then?Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before;and God will call the past to account.Ecclesiastes 3:15 (NIV)God will call the past to account. - God will not bring the prophets Elijah and Moses back to life but rather fulfill what He had said to the prophets Moses and Elijah long ago.What did God say before to the Prophet Moses?I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.Deuteronomy 18:18-19 (NIV)God spoke before about a coming prophet like Mosesin whose mouth God will put His words; who will speak everything that God commanded him to speak about His Name. God also repeated this promise in: "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decreesand laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.Malachi 4:4 (NIV)God reminds us of His laws and statutes that He has given Moses (and this is summarized through the decree in Deuteronomy 18:18-19) about a coming prophet (like Moses) who will reveal his Name.

We continue our reading that we may understand why the prophet Elijah was mentioned in Revelation 11:"See, I will send you the prophet Elijah beforethat great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.Malachi 4:5 (NIV)God said that He will send the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.What will be the task of the coming prophet Elijah?He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."Malachi 4:6 (NIV)

When the prophet Elijah comes, He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers!Since it is written in Ecclesiastes 3:15 that the events reoccur, we can now understand that the reason why God mentioned the two prophets in Revelation 11 was to remind us that the events that happened during Moses and Elijahs time will happen again. Since God spoke about a coming prophet like Moses, it means that God will send another Prophet who will show us His true message, especially about His covenant and will lead us all back to the true God. Why did God say the He will send the Prophet Elijah? Does this mean that aside from the coming prophet like Moses, God will send another Prophet Elijah?Answer: No! God will not send another prophet Elijah.What God said in Malachi 4:5-6 about a coming Elijah predicts what will happen once the real prophet like Moses emerges and proclaims His true message and great Name. This means that the events which occurred during the time of Prophet Elijah(1 Kings 18:20-40) will transpire once again. Elijah was sent by God to show the power of His true Name against the numerous prophets of the false god Baal. This will happen again today, our present era. This time, it will be in the person of the real prophet like Moses(the prophetic second Elijah), who will battle against all the preachers who spoke and continue to speak falsely and deceitfully about God.The prophet like Moses message in the scriptures will bring back to life the very message of the prophets Moses and Elijah to only worship the one true God!Why? What teaching do these false preachers represent which led humanity to worship a false god whowill now be exposed by the prophet like Moses?After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.Matthew 17:1 NIV Here the author of the book of Matthew writes about an event that happened during the time of Jesus.There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun,and his clothes became as white as the light.Matthew 17:2 NIVHis face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. - The author implies that Jesus became like Moses whose face shone when God speaks with him on the mountain.Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.Matthew 17:3 NIVHere, the apostles make it appear that the word of God in Malachi 4:5-6 about Moses and the coming Elijah had been fulfilled during the time of Jesus, with their claim that Moses and Elijah appeared to JesusPeter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters - one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!" When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified.Matthew 17:4-6 NIV

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. - Here the apostles claimed that God spoke that Jesus was His son.How do we know that this event did not happen and that the prophecy about Moses and Elijah was not fulfilled in their time? Let us read what God said before as to why He will send a prophet like Moses:The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die." The LORD said to me: "What they say is good. Deuteronomy 18:15-17 NIVHere the prophet Moses reminds His people Israel why God will send a prophet like him. This is because God will no longer speak with them as per their request when they worshiped God at Horeb (Exodus 20:18-19). The people will die if they hear Gods voice and God agreed with them that what they feared is true. Since that event; it is Moses who spoke on Gods behalf.Since God promised that He will not make His voice be heard directly only means that what the apostles had written that God spoke during the so-called transfiguration that Jesus was His son is INCORRECT, MISLEADING and a LIE. Otherwise, they would have died when they heard Gods voice. To further demonstrate how the apostles lied to us in their writings about Jesus:4So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.5For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father"?Or again, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son"?Hebrews 1:4-5 NIVWe can read that the apostles (in Hebrews 1:5) used two verses in the Old Testament to make it appear that Jesus is higher than the angels.One in Psalm 2:7:"You are my Son; today I have become your Father "?Psalm 2:7 NIVAnd the second is in 2 Samuel. 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son2 Samuel 7:14 NIVThis only shows that the apostles are citing Gods words in the Old Testament. They made those two separate verses (Psalm 2:7 and 2 Samuel 7:14) to look as if Jesus is a glorified son of God and mightier than Gods angels.The question is: were those words of God (in the Old Testament), really speak about Jesus being a Son of God and more superior to Gods angels?Let us start with 2 Samuel 7 verse 12:When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up youroffspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom.II Samuel 7:12 (NIV)The promise given to David - a descendant or an OFFSPRING will come from his bloodline.We can now determine that the Apostles did not write truthfully about what God said. God clearly does not speak about an only begotten Son who is superior to the angels as they wrote in Hebrews 1:5!In the prophecy in 2 Samuel 7:14 God speaks to David, through His prophet Nathan, about his (Davids) offspring, of his own flesh and blood! What would be the work of the descendant?He is the one who will build a house for my Name,and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever...II Samuel 7:13 (NIV)The offspring of David will have a special task from God: to build a House for His Name and when he is able to accomplish it, God will establish the throne of his (offspring of David) kingdom over Israel forever.What was the other reward from God if Davids offspring completes his task?I will be his father, and he will be my son. WHEN HE DOES WRONG, I WILL PUNISH HIM WITH A ROD WIELDED BY MEN, WITH FLOGGINGS INFLICTED BY HUMAN HANDS II Samuel 7:14 (NIV)I will be his father, and he will be my son. - We can now understand how the apostles have written falsely about Gods word. It is clear that God speaks not of a direct Son as they have written in the book of Hebrews. Rather, it is about an offspring of David (Davids own flesh and blood), whom God shall send to build a house in His Name. When the offspring of David is successful in accomplishing his task, his throne as king will be established over Israel forever. Although he is just a descendant of David, God will reward him with the title Son of GodTo see for ourselves how the apostles deliberately twisted Gods word regarding Jesus:WHEN HE DOES WRONG, I WILL PUNISH HIM WITH A ROD WIELDED BY MEN, WITH FLOGGINGS INFLICTED BY HUMAN HANDS If he does wrong, the descendant of David would be punished by the floggings of men. This means that the one indicated in 2 Samuel 7:14whom the apostles claim in Hebrews 1:5 as Jesus was foretold by God HIMSELF that he may commit wrong and thus a mere human and not divine! (God is not a man and therefore cannot commit a wrong.)The apostles only wrote in Hebrews 1:5, the part where God said in 2 Samuel 7:14 which read: I will be his father, and he will be my son.- They left out the warning WHEN HE DOES WRONG, I WILL PUNISH HIM WITH A ROD WIELDED BY MEN, WITH FLOGGINGS INFLICTED BY HUMAN HANDS.God said that the son of David will be flogged by men if he commits wrong. It is clear that the apostles hid the truth why God had forsaken Jesus to die brutally. They are guilty of impartingand inculcating mankind with a false teaching that God sent Jesus to suffer and die for our sins!The apostles of Jesus made mankind believe in their false claims about Jesus. Thisled people into worshipingthe name of Jesus who in reality is not a literal son of God. Jesus is only a son of David who died a brutal death for his own wrongdoing. We must no longer wonder why God is forsaking Christians to be brutally killed.This false teaching of the apostles about Jesus as Son of God, God and prophet (which is now represented by the major religions in the world) is what the real prophet like Moses is exposing to the whole world based on what God had revealed to him in the scripturesJust as the prophets of Baal were exposed and defeated by the prophet Elijah, the same will also happen to the preachers of the writings of the apostles, i.e., the religions. Thiswill occur when the prophet like Moses emerges and reveals Gods true message in the scriptures about His true Name.This prophecy in Deuteronomy 18:18-19 about a coming prophet like Moses in whose mouth God will put His words and had sent to speak in His Name, has now come to fruition in the person of Maestro (Teacher) Erao Martin Evangelista of the websites: www.thename.ph and www.thenameonline.info.In the above-mentioned websites, he has already revealed God's message. He disclosed Gods true Name and the real Jesus as written in the Bible, not from his personal research but according to what was revealed to him by God IN the Bible. This is his authority from God to speak about Gods Name.Is it true that the apostles are liars?I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.Revelation 2:2 NIVwho claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.-It is evident, through the Bible revelations of the prophet like Moses in www.thename.ph and www.thenameonline.info that what the apostles had written and testified about Jesus as a Son of God; as God; and as one who had died for the sins of mankind; who was raised from the dead to live again; and will literally return to this world, ARE ALL FALSE TESTIMONIES. This means that the apostles had presented to us a false Jesus.Who wrote the book of Revelation? Is he an apostle?Maestro (Teacher) Evangelista reveals to us the true identity of the writer of the Book of Revelation:I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. But he said to me, Dont do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!Revelation 22:8-9 NIVyour fellow prophets- The religions assumed that the author of the book was the man they call "John, the Divine", an apostle. However, the book of Revelation was written by John of Patmos, who was also a prophet of God.Worship God!- not Jesus. Maestro Erao Evangelista says: If Jesus had successfully fulfilled his mission as written in the prophecies; there would be no need for the Book of Revelation.With Jesus failure to complete his mission, the Book of Revelation had to be written so that the deception of Jesus and his apostles may be brought to light.The truth is that this revelation is not against Jesus, but rather revealing the real Jesus whom God had sent that was deceptively presented by the apostles in their writings. No matter how the apostles hid those truths about Jesus, God have exposed them through what He revealed in the Bible to Teacher Evangelista.How do we confirm that the prophecy about a coming prophet Elijah had NOT been fulfilled in Jesus time? Let us read Malachi 4:5-6 (NIV):"See, I will send you the prophet Elijah beforethat great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.Malachi 4:5 (NIV)The coming of the Prophet Elijah means the coming of the last prophet who will reveal the true Name of God! Why? What will happen when the great and dreadful day of God comes?The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.Joel 2:31-32 NIV

The reason the symbolicElijah (who is also the prophet like Moses) will be sent is for him to reveal the Name of God to us so that we may call on Gods Name to save ourselves and prevent such a dreadful day from happening. It has now happened with Maestro Evangelistas coming.He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."Malachi 4:6 (NIV)Why is that when the real prophetic Elijah comes, he will reconcile the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers?This means that there is one who turned away the hearts of the children from the father. Who was he?"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!Luke 12:49 (NIV) Jesus was the man, who brought trouble (fire) in to the world,But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed!Luke 12:50 (NIV) baptism - He was to die, as punishment for his iniquities, because he contradicted God.distressed he was scared that he had to suffer the punishment and die for it as prophesiedIs it true that Jesus came to bring trouble and not peace?Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three.Luke 12:51-52 NIVJesus did not bring peace; he caused all the troubles from the day he came to his people and spawned evil in the world! What kind of division did he cause?They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.Luke 12: 53 (NIV)Based on what Jesus has said, we now realize that the turning of the hearts of the children AGAINST their parents and of the parents AGAINST their children only happened during his time! He was the one who separated them because he taught false teachings about God!The apostles are now found wrong in what they have written about the transfiguration because Jesus himself was the one who turned the hearts of the children against their parents or the hearts of the people away from God through his divisive teachings.Thus, he is not the fulfillment of the said prophecy about the coming Elijah.It is Jesus who turned away the hearts of the children against their parents and consequently turned the hearts of the people away from knowing God. This also means that the apostles made false claims in preaching that Jesus is the prophet like Moses. Jesus did not reveal Gods Name to His people Israel in the same way that Maestro Evangelista did.First, let us read the law of God about how we should treat our parents and what benefit it would be for us if we follow His commandment in Deuteronomy 5:16:"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you,so that you may live long and that it maygo well with you in the land the LORDyour God is giving you.Deuteronomy 5:16 (NIV)"Honor your father and your mother" - if you obey this commandment, the blessing is that you will live long and prosper. Maestro Evangelista says: respect your father and mother, whether they are good or bad; you owe your life to them. One of the reasons why we have to respect them is that our parents, next to God, are our creator. God created us all, and in turn God also made us to be like God, able to create on our own, our children, after our own kind.How did Jesus turn the hearts of the children against their parents or had turned us from truly obeying Gods commandments?Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters yes, even his own life - he cannot be my disciple.Luke 14:25-26 (NIV) He preached that people must HATE their parents in order to follow him.This is the why the more the prayers for peace is said in Jesus name, the more the violence and killings escalate. With these prayers, people are calling on the one who brought these divisions and conflicts!As Maestro Evangelista says - its like calling firemen to bring a truck full of water to put out the fire, only to find out that they brought a truck full of gasoline that even adds more fuel to the fire.The Prophetic Elijah who is Maestro Evangelista, will return the hearts of the fathers to their children and the childrens heart to their fathers. This means that he will show us the real Name of God so that we may return to worshiping the real God.We can now witness the revelations of the real prophet like Moses (who is also the prophetic Elijah). This is the exposition about the real Name of God against the false preachers.He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."Malachi 4:6 (NIV)or else I will come and strike the land with a curse." What is this curse?See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.Deuteronomy 11:26-28 (NIV)God through His prophet Moses had already set a decree about a blessing or a curse. A long, abundant and peaceful life if we worship Him and obey His laws while a curse if we do not worship Him and follow other gods we have not knownToday, countries are experiencing different forms of misfortunes: wars, famine, natural disasters (such as earthquakes, landslides, sink holes, floods, tsunamis, and unseasonable weather), pestilence, and worsening economic crises among other sufferings. We can no longer find a single country that is not suffering from any of these conditions. These are signs that the world is truly cursed by God because we do not worship His real Name and do not follow His true commandments.If we do not listen to Gods prophet like Moses, Teacher Evangelista, God will let us live under His curse forever. It can now be understood why God said in Malachi 4:4-5 to remember the law and statutes that He gave His prophet Moses and about a coming prophet Elijah. It is to remind us of His words about the coming prophet like Moses who will battle with the false preachers about the true Name of God just like the prophet Elijah did before!In the prophet Elijahs time, God sent fire down from heaven to show that He is the true God and not Baal and the same time to show that he (Elijah) is His true prophet (1 Kings 18:20-40).In our generation, what kind of fire will we see from God that His prophet like Moses brings?See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.Isaiah 30:27 (NIV)The fire that we will see is the Word of God! Also, The Name of God will come from afar the Far East. Where in the Far East?They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they acclaim the LORD's majesty. Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; exalt the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea. From the ends of the earth we hear singing: "Glory to the Righteous One." But I said, "I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!"Isaiah 24:14-16 (NIV)Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; exalt the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea - We have just read the proof of the authority of Maestro Erao M. Evangelista of the Philippines, an island country in the Far East. As Gods Last Prophet (prophet like Moses), he will speak the words of God and speak in His Name.We can now comprehend that the reason why the whole world is suffering right now is because of Gods anger. No one calls on His true NamePour out your wrath on the nations, that do not acknowledge you,on the kingdoms, that do not call on your name;Psalm 79:6 (NIV)that do not call on your name- God is angry with us because we do not call on His true Name that was revealed to us in the scriptures by His real prophet like Moses in the websiteswww.thename.ph and www.thenameonline.infosince 2006! Many media institutions were informed about this but none had paid attention.To know the real Jesus whom God had revealed in the scriptures to Teacher EvangelistaClick this links:http://www.thename.ph/thename/revelations/realjesus-en.htmlorhttp://www.thenameonline.info/thename/revelations/realjesus-en.htmlFinally, for the Christian preachers to say that Jesus is the prophet like Moses in Deuteronomy 18:18-19 and not Maestro (Teacher) Evangelista would be an exercise in futility on their part because we have read thatthe apostles were wrong in claiming that God sent Jesus to die for our sins, thus making their claims no longer credible.Because of the great deception they have brought upon humanity, it is suggested that these religious leaders apologize to the people and should return all the money offerings they have received for their false teachings.Finally, as Gods prophet to the nations, Maestro Evangelista says to all people of the world:Disastrous events will continue to happen all over the world, for the people to realize that the world is cursed. These will only stop when they use their wisdom and understanding to accept and acknowledge the true Name of God.This is not to promulgate a new religion or cult but simply to inform you about Gods true MESSAGE. This means that whether you accept (the 'Prophet like Moses') Maestro Evangelista's Bible revelations in www.thename.ph and www.thenameonline.info or not, ceases to be our responsibility. You are accountable for your own actions because of free-will.What is important is that people of the world cannot say that the God of the prophets in the Bible did not show us how we can attain true peace and unity. God has now shown it to us through His real prophet like Moses, Maestro (Teacher) Evangelista of www.thename.ph and www.thenameonline.info.You will be accountable to God (as God said in (Deuteronomy 18:18-19)and not to Maestro or to us because the One who commanded Maestro Evangelista to make such explanations about His words (especially about Jesus) in the scriptures is God Himself. It is HE, the HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, WHO HAD PUT HIS WORDS In Maestro Evangelistas mouth to make known this Bible revelation on who the real Jesus was and why humanity will never attain true peace as long they believe the Jesus made up by the religions!.

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