Revelation 11:4

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.

• ·        God made them to be like Zerubbabel and Joshua, the two olive-trees and candlestick in the vision of Zechariah (MH)

• ·        If we will be witnesses, we must first have something to witness – our own personal encounter with Jesus Christ. Then, we must have the power of the Holy Spirit to bring forth the story of what we have witnessed effectively. (DG)

Psalm 52:8  But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God, I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

Jeremiah 11:16  The LORD called your name, Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit.  With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

Revelation 11:3

“And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

• ·        God has reserved to Himself His faithful witnesses (MH)

• ·        They prophesy in sackcloth, as those that are deeply affected with the low and distressed state of the churches (MH)

• ·        They prophesy during the period of the reign of antichrist (MH)

Deuteronomy 17:6Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

Genesis 37:34  Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Revelation 11:2

“But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles.  And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.

• ·        Herod built an outer court and called it the court of the Gentiles.  This was no part of the temple, and therefore God would have no regard to it (MH)

• ·        There is a set time for the city to be put underfoot

• ·        Whose who worship in the outer court are either such as worship in a false manner or with hypocritical hearts.  Those who worship in the outer court will be rejected, and only those who worship within the veil accepted. (MH)

Psalm 79:1  O GOD, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Ezekiel 40:17-20  Then he brought me into the outer court; and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chambers faced the pavement……