FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
sealed in copper boxes and buried in hewn-out vaults in the mountain.
The Bibles are marked at the passages which deal with the Antichrist.
In recent years, a construction firm out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, had
been hired to restore the water system; and other international teams
were schedules to carry out other restoration work.
From this point on is the time referred to as the ‘Great Tribulation.”
Revelation 11:2 says: “...for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy
city shall they tread under foot forty and two months (or 3-1/2 years or
1,260 days).” Although his influence will be worldwide, the Antichrist
will have absolute power over 25% of the world (Rev. 6:8), with the
main concentration being in the nations of the world controlled by the
world government. He will seek out and destroy true Christians and all
others who will not worship him or take his Mark. In Matthew 24:9,
Jesus said: “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall
kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.”
Revelation 20:4 talks about those who were “beheaded for the witness
of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands...”
It is at this time when “two witnesses” will emerge to “prophesy,”
according to Revelation 11:3. It says, “I will give power unto my two
witnesses,” which could indicate that God intends to anoint a couple
of ordinary men, who will become ‘super evangelists,’ possessing
extraordinary powers like the prophets of old. However, just as angels
have been sent to Earth in various capacities, the consensus seems to
be that these two will be prophets sent by God.
There have been two possibilities mentioned as to the identities of the
two. Matthew 17:3 and Mark 9:4, refer to Jesus being transfigured with
Elijah and Moses. In 2 Kings 2:11, the prophet Elijah was taken to
heaven in a fiery chariot; and in Malachi 4:5, this prophecy is given:
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the
great and dreadful day of the Lord.” Moses, unlike Elijah, had died, so
it was his spiritual body which had appeared. So the identity of the
second witness perhaps points to Enoch, because he was the only
other person in the Bible who never died. According to Genesis 5:24,
he was taken by God.