Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Two Witnesses and the U.N. (Rev. 11:9)

This morning in my quiet time, I was reading in Revelation 11-13, firstly about the "beast from the earth," who is the false prophet (many assume to be the next pope, 'Peter the Roman').  Then I got focused on the two witnesses, sent from God to warn the peoples of the earth, I was reading in the Holman Christian translation, and the phrase "those from the peoples" is worded, "representatives from..."  It occurred to me that those mentioned in verse 9 had authority over Jerusalem, to order the peoples not to bury the bodies of the two witnesses (Greek: martyrs).  Verse 10 states that "those who dwell on th earth will rejoice" denoting a difference between those in the Middle Eastern locality, and those around th world, viewing from their smartphones, televisions and iPads.

Revelation 11:9-12 9 Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. 10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. 11 But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them. 12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." Then they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them.

Could it be that these representatives from the nations, tribes and tongues who have authority to withhold burial of these two witnesses is indeed the U.N., a international agency made up of representatives of all the nations represented, and by that time, all nations of the world (Dan. 7:19).

No comments:

Post a Comment