Study
14 From the Book of Revelation is: Revelation 11
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The question, ‘Who are the two witnesses?’ in 11:3-12 has
received many answers. Assuming that
they represent the witness of the church throughout the present age, what
lessons may we learn from this passage concerning true witness for Christ, the
authority of His witnesses, their preservation, their suffering to death, and
their final triumph? Cf. Lk. 10:19; Jn. 16:2; Acts 7:54-60.
2-
When God’s purposes are completely fulfilled by the sounding of
the seventh trumpet (see 10:7), who is seen to be triumphant at the last? What attributes and activities of God make
certain His triumph over all opposition?
What ought this prospect to make us do?
Notes
1-
Verses 1, 2. The purpose of the measuring is to mark out what is
to be preserved. If the Temple represents Christ’s people (1 Cor. 3:16), the
outer court may represent the Jews in their unbelief (Lk. 21:24).
2-
Verses 2, 3. ‘Forty-two months’ is the same length of time as
‘one thousand two hundred and sixty days’ and as ‘a times, and half a time’
(31/2 years) of 12:14. Cf. 12:6. It appears here to be a conventional
description of the duration of the present age. Note the contrast in verse
11—only ‘three and a half days’.
