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Who kills the 2 witnesses at the 3 1/2 year point in the tribulation?

I have read the book of Revelation several times, but have always missed this one point. The way I see it , there are 3 possibilities..

1) They are killed before the Antichrist, meaning that they lose their divine protection.

2) They are dead at the same as the as the Antichrist, thus a third party would be responsible for killing them

3) They are killed after Satan has entered the body and counterfeited the resurrection, thus they are killed by Satan.

2 is unlikely since there will e celebrating after they are dead, and no-one would want to celebrate right after they Antichrist is killed.

Update:

The BIBLE CLEARLY, VERY CLEARLY, says that they 2 witnesses will be preaching day and night, and convert 144,000 Jews, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes to preach about JESUS. They will have the power to stop the rain, and call down all forms of plaques on those that continue to reject JESUS. They will be divinely protected and no-one will be able to hurt them till the appointed time.

It also says that JESUS will be returning when the 7 years are over, to set up HIS 1,000 years kingdom.

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  • Tigger
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The one that is specifically mentioned as dying died when a large stone that was catapulted into the city by the Romans struck him on the head. I would dare say that both of the witnesses died as result of the Siege on the city, their bodies were left in the streets and they arose three days later when the city was sacked and the temple destroyed. There was a lot going on, while Tacitus and Josephus got a lot of details there were certainly some that were left out. There were enough details however to glean there were at least two witnesses in the city who prophesied against the Jews, and that at least one was killed by the stone from the catapult

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    You've read the book, but you don't seem to have any clue about the context in which it was written or the literary/religious tradition from which it sprang.

    It's a commentary on first-century politics, not a prediction of what's going to happen thousands of years in the future.

    Please shut up before you embarrass yourself further.

  • jim
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The Fargo, North Dakota police department.

  • 6 years ago

    If you have read Revelation as many times as you have said, then you are aware that the two witnesses are two Olive Branches and two Lampstands. In the beginning of Revelation, we are told that Lampstands are Churches, so the Two Lampstands are Two Churches.

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  • Moi
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    You have a totally erroneous understanding of Revelation.

    The two witnesses are not two individuals. They represent two groups of men - Gods faithful Jews and his faithful Gentiles.

    Scripture calls them also "two olive trees" - figuratively speaking .

    Rev 11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

    The ONLY place in scripture where "the two olive trees of God" are identified is Romans 11 where Paul discusses the "wild olive tree" of the Jews and the "grafted in olive tree" of the Gentiles.

    Rom 11:24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

    ALWAYS USE SCRIPTURE TO INTERPRET SCRIPTURE

  • 6 years ago

    Voldemort. Seriously, give that book a rest, you will go nuts trying to figure out that made up garbage. Revelation has inspired more mass murders than any other book written by HUMANS.

  • 6 years ago

    Satan, playing his role as the Antichrist (instead of Christ in the Greek).

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    the antichrist kills them or has them killed while he is still alive and in power

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    revelation is a pile of crap

    don't worry about it

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