...told that the witnesses prophesy for a period of three years and a half, we are told also that " they are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the God of the earth ;" and do we gather from this that they are either actually two olive trees and two candlesticks, or,...

...witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and...

...and when will their prophesying cease ?" There is a definite answer given to the first question. " These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth." The two olive trees is a reference to Zach. iv., and appears to correspond with the two candlesticks....

...great tribulation, &c." Chap. vii. 13 — 16. "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, &c." — These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the God of the earth." Chap. xl. 3, 4. The reference is evidently to Zech. iv. 2, 3, and 11 — 14, where matter explanatory...

...great tribulation, &c." Chap. vii. 13 — 16. "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, &c." — These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the God of the earth." Chap. xl. 3, 4. The reference is evidently to Zech. iv. 2, 3, and 11 — 14, where matter explanatory...

...witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and...

...testify of me." The angel tells Juhn. in the next verse following our text, that the two witnesses " are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth." The angel, in hU allusion to the two olive trees, quotes the prophet Zi•dioriah, iv. !), " And two...

...future ; but I cannot avoid receiving the plain declaration, in Rev. xi. 3, 4, that the two witnesses are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the whole earth; nor the declaration, in the fourth chapter of Zechariah, that these olive trees and candlesticks...

...seven lamps, as a type of the universal church. In another part of the same book, it is thus written: " These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth." Rev. 11. 4. Here olive trees and candlesticks are types of the same objects, which therefore in all...

...and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth." Verse 4. " These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth." The 4th verse seems to be a reference to Zech. 4th chapter. The prophet was presented in vision with...