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“Three and One-Half Days in Revelation 11:9”
“Passover”,
“Feast of Tabernacles”,
Understanding the three and
a half days in Revelation 11:9 is a key to understanding where we are today in
time. For as the scriptures say, the Spirit of Life enters into the “two
prophets”, commonly called the two witnesses. It must be made clear that
the two prophets, called the individual two witnesses, are distinct from the
two bodies of the “two witnesses, called the corporate body of “two witnesses”.
The two individual prophets that are the fulfillment of the two witnesses
or olive trees are the messengers of the corporate bodies of the two witnesses
for the 1260 days or the 42 months spoken of in scripture. The bodies of
the “two witnesses” are the completeness of the “two olive trees”. It is
these bodies that are lying “in the street of the great city” for three and one
half days.
The two witnesses in their
completeness are the corporate bodies of Moses, who was a picture of the
earthly government of God and Elijah, who was a picture of the true restoration
of the Kingdom Levitical priesthood. As Messiah has a corporate body of
believers, so do Moses and Elijah. Messiah is the Head of these bodies as
well as His own body but the “two prophets” are the eyes and mouths of these
bodies. They were sent to speak the oracles of God to warn the world of
the end of days.
Revelation 11:7-11
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony,
the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them,
and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city, which spiritually is called
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues
and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not
suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall
rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because
these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of
life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear
fell upon them which saw them.
When
the message of the two witnesses is rejected by the leaders of religious
systems and their 1260 days are fulfilled, the angel of the bottomless pit,
Apollyon or Abaddon (The Destroyer), spoken of in Revelation
The overcoming of the two
witnesses and the two corporate bodies spoken of here is the 3½-year period of
killing of the natural man in the companies of the two witnesses. This is
what is meant by the term “dead bodies” that are lying in the streets for all
to see and rejoice over.
This is the reason that
these “bodies” will not be allowed to be put into graves. It is also the
reason that these bodies will be seen three and one-half days lying in the street,
which is representative of the world. These things will be happening to
the corporate bodies of Moses and Elijah, the 144,000, all over the
world. Naturally those that “dwell upon the earth” will have no
recognition of what is happening. Those that dwell on the earth are those
that remain in the carnality of this world. They are those who have no
vision of things from above and will be caught off guard by the quickening of
the “sons of God”
It will
be during these three and one-half days that the sifting of the 144,000 also
known as the “two witnesses” will commence. Everything that is an
impediment to the completing of these predestined “sons of God” will be eaten
away with perfect efficiency by the “Destroyer” and his minions from the
“bottomless pit”. This period will culminate on The Feast of Tabernacles,
After the two witnesses and
the corporate bodies of the two witnesses are cleansed, there will be a
“quickening” of both the individual and the corporate two witnesses. We
know that it was during the Feast of
Tabernacles that Messiah went to the “Mount of Transfiguration” because Peter’s
response to seeing Moses and Elijah speaking to Messiah was to suggest they set
up a “tabernacle” or tent that was the practice during the Feast of Tabernacles,
to commemorate God dwelling with men within His only begotten Son Immanuel, the
Son of Man.
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John
his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was
transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment
was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias
talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good
for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for
thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a
bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which
said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And
when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And
Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they
had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.
On the Mount of Transfiguration
the Lord took with him Peter, James and John. It was there that Jesus met
with Moses and Elijah. We are given a prophetic picture of Jesus and the
two witnesses, which is mirrored in the appearance of Moses and Elijah on the
Mount of Jesus’ transfiguration.
So to will it once again be
this feast that will be fulfilled in the transfiguration of the sons of God,
the government of God sent to this world to bring order to chaos, to put down
all things that offend and oppose the manifest will of God.
Revelation 11:8 also refers to the “great city”.
The great city is referred to later in Revelation as being
Hebrews 13:11-14
11 For the
bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high
priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore
Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered
without the gate.
13 Let us go
forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here
have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Outside the city is very significant in that it was a
type of the entire world or the “great city” or
These cities are used because they are symbolic of two
things.
Many have also said that the
3½ days of Revelation 11 parallel the resurrection of Messiah but they have
made a serious error. The Messiah was raised “early on the third day” not
half-way through the fourth day. There is nothing paralleled about these
two periods. These are three and one-half prophetic days that bring us to
the final fulfillment of the fall feasts, represented by the Feast of Trumpets
(Rosh Hashanah), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), and the Feast of Tabernacles.
It is very important to
understand the times and seasons of Messiah because the spring feasts and the
fall feasts are always a half year apart from each other. So we know that
if Messiah was crucified on Passover, His ministry began three and one-half
years earlier on the Feast of Tabernacles. We also know that if the testimony
of the “two prophets” ended on Passover, then the three and one-half days end
on Tabernacles three and a half years later. The Lord’s plans and
purposes are always marked in the prophetic fulfillment of the feasts and
festivals of the Hebrew calendar.
Revelation 11:12-13
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying
unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their
enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake,
and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men
seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of
heaven.
At the completion of the
three and one-half days we see a great voice calling them to “come up hither”
followed by a “great earthquake” with a tenth or a “tithe” of the city
falling. The slain of men are “seven thousand” (1 Kings
Matthew 11:12-15
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now
the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the
violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied
until John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which
was for to come.
15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 17:10-13
10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then
say the scribes that Elias must first come?
11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias
truly shall first come, and restore all things.
12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already,
and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise
shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
13 Then the disciples understood that he spake
unto them of John the Baptist.
1 Kings
13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he
wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of
the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou
here, Elijah?
14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the
LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,
thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with
the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy
way to the wilderness of
16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be
king over
17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael
shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth
from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha
slay.
18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in
Romans 11:1-5
1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God
forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of
Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he
foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of
Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I
am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I
have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the
image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is
a remnant according to the election of grace.
The first order of business
for the Elijah company will be the restoration of the “sons of Levi”, who then
shall restore the fullness of the 144,000, the “sons of Jacob”. Both
Elijah and Moses were of the physical tribe of Levi. The scriptures tell
us that John the Baptist, who Jesus said represented Elijah, was the son of a
priest and that specifically his mother
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall
prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to
his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he
shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who
shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a
refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and
silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I
will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and
against false swearers, and against those that
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn
aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye
sons of Jacob are not consumed.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they
shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this,
saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
commanded unto him in Horeb for all
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to
the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and
smite the earth with a curse.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third
woe cometh quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were
great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat
before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God
Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because
thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is
come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and
to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19 And the
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