Who are to the Witnesses? Ans: the 2 olive trees.

Who are the 2 olive trees? Ans: The anointed ones of the Lord.

Who has been compared to an olive tree? Ans: A body of people. Specifically, Israel.

But, until Israel repents, it's branches are burnt off.

Enter the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and covenant with the entire world.

We gentiles, as Paul says, are wild olive branches "grafted on."

And hence forth the Church is Israel.

But the root remains ... God has not given up on the Jews. Paul says that the trunk (and root) of the olive tree are still founded in the Jews, but their branches are broken off.

In fact, Paul warns us that we, too, can be cut off (Rome?), and says specifically that if the Jews don't persist in their unbelief, God can and will graft them into the tree again.

Which seems to be why there are two ... which will be grafted into one, at some point in this mystery, all worshiping and Jesus Christ in the manner that he intended ... but not until

the fullness of the Gentiles have come in.

Then *all* of Israel will be saved. Both olive trees/branches.

So ... *something* will cause a massive conversion. Once that happens, God will "graft" them back in.

So, coming back to the 2 witnesses. Does Revelation say it'll be 2 people?

Nope. It says they are the "2 olive trees."

Something ... will cause the conversion of the Jews dramatically, and the unification and conversion of Christians.

"But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth." Acts 1:8

"You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none."

Is. 43:10

"Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled, from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?" Is. 44:8

But what about the lampstand/candlesticks? John talks about them in Rev. Chapter 1, and explains what they are:

So, when Rev 11:4 refers to them again, we know it means the 2 "Churches," or 2 "bodies" of believers ... once they repent ...

In short, the 2 Witnesses will consist of hard-core Catholic Jews and Gentiles who have repented and been grafted into the the Church/Israel.

So ... "let your loins be girt, and [keep your] lamps burning in your hands..." Luke 12:35.

Because we're the generation. "And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

Satan doesn't get to go unanswered, and God likes to use His servants as instruments to save His people. How?

He's going to POUR out His Spirit like a tsunami! He promised He would ... so it's going to happen.

It's going to be absolutely epic, and Satan is going to hate us even more ...

But what about "fire coming from their mouths?"

God explained that, too.

What does the "fire" mean? What does it mean to be killed by that fire?

In fact, the Father has explained exactly what this means in Jeremiah 5:14.

The fire is the Gospel, assisted by the Holy Ghost as in the days of the Apostles. The people who hear it are "the wood the fire consumes."

They are going to die from the fire coming from our mouths alright ... die to themselves ... die to sin.

Die like we die ... in baptism.

And this is why they'll hate us (even more than they do now).

Seems unbelievable, doesn't?

But why would the miracles be reserved to the first century, and not the last when even more souls are at stake?

Why wouldn't God counteract the false miracles that are coming with true miracles?

Like with Elijah ... and Moses.

He will.

Will it be everybody who accepts the true faith?

I don't know, but I doubt it. I think whomever they are, they're being prepared now, and have been for a while.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were 2 for every city.

Sometimes, I wonder if the "Fire from the Sky" in Akita might really be a cryptic reference for something like this: https://twitter.com/JonahofNinevah/status/1245055412807884803?s=20

Sackcloth ... people who have truly repented.

Of course the original tweet has typos ... of course.