The Two Witnesses of Rev 11:3-12
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The two witnesses of Rev 11 : 312, also designated in vs. 4 as "the two olive trees" and "the two lampstands," have most frequently been interpreted as representing two personages-Moses and Elijah, James and John, Peter and Paul, or others.' The identification with Moses and Elijah (or with their eschatological counterparts) has been especially tempting because of the mention in vs. 6 of the witnesses' power to turn the waters to blood and to smite the earth with every plague (reminiscent of Moses) and to bring drought (reminiscent of Elijah), coupled with the Jewish belief in an eschatological return of those two prophets (see John 1:21; 6:14; 7:40; Matt 11:14; Mark 9:ll; and also Deut 18:15-18 and Ma1 4:5).' Another fairly common approach among recent exegetes is to see the two witnesses as somehow representing the Christian church, or at least some segment or aspect of it and its mission. This might be the prophetic vocation of the church, the Jewish and Gentile segments of the early Christian community, the faithful Smyrna and Philadelphia churches, the martyrs within the whole Christian community, the preaching and teaching ministry of the universal church, e t ~ . ~
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