The Witnesses’ Deaths Celebrated

Terry James

We can see in God’s prophetic Word where this rebellion is leading. It is plainly shown in the matter of the two witnesses who will emerge during the time known as Great Tribulation. They will come to preach that earth-dwellers—all who are in rebellion against God—must repent and accept Christ for salvation.

Just as now, only in a much more hostile way, people of that time will hate the messengers. These earth-dwellers will, like ancient Judaizers of Israel, kill the prophets of God’s message. They didn’t want to hear it then. Those on earth at the time of this visitation of the two witnesses won’t like it at that time either.

Antichrist, the most horrendous dictator of all of human history, will do his utmost to hunt down the two witnesses of God and kill them.

He, and the earth-dwellers who hate them too will be unable to harm them, until their work is done and God’s salvation message and His warnings of judgment and wrath are complete.

Here’s what happens next, according to God’s Holy Word.

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. (Revelation 11:7–12)

We see this anti-God, anti-Christ attitude growing in every direction we look today. These are increasingly insulted by the salvation message.

Is there any doubt within the spiritually attuned mind that these will, when the awe and shock have run their course, celebrate the Christians’ evacuation from the surface of this judgment-bound planet?

One news story points to the attitude that is already far advanced in the developing anti-God, anti-Christ hostility. The following is a brief excerpt.

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