Elijah and Moses will be the two witnesses of Revelation Chapter 11.
Revelation 11:3, "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."
Revelation 11:6, “These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”
Elijah could call fire from heaven and cause no rain for three and a half years. 1 Kings 18:1, “And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.”
Although three and a half years isn’t clearly stated as the time that the heavens were shut up, James and Luke clarify the time.
James 5:17, “Elias (G2243) was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.“
Luke 4:25, “But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias (G2243), when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;”
Elias, G2243, Of Hebrew origin H452, God of Jehovah; Elijah, the name of the famous prophet and of two other Israelites: - Elijah, Eliah; Helias (that is, Elijah), an Israelite: - Elias.
When under attack, Elijah could call down fire, 2 Kings 1:10, “And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.”
When challenging the pagan god Baal Elijah again called down fire, 1 Kings 18:37-38, “Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.”
When Pharaoh would not release the Israelite’s, God used Moses to call down 10 plagues on Egypt. Each plague was a repudiation of one of the Egyptian gods and similar to those recorded in the Book of Revelation.
The plague of waters turned to blood will be repeated during the tribulation as will be painful boils and huge hail stones. Just as there was a profound darkness that could be felt by the Egyptians, this will also be repeated during the tribulation.
Exodus 9:11, "And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians."
Revelation 16:2, "And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.”
The identities of Two Witnesses will be Elijah and Moses based on powers given to them by God both in the past and during the Tribulation.
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