Revelation Chapter 11


John was given a measuring rod and told by the angel to measure the temple of God. The true Church is the spiritual temple that God has built and where He has placed His name, for She has been measured, cut and built up according to the pattern of God’s Word. The last days Bride is the completion of God’s super Church, for by Her seven ages of saints are made perfect (Hebrews 11:40), and the sleeping saints along with the living saints will be translated into Glory before the Great Tribulation sets in.

But John was told not to measure the outer court of the temple. The outer court of Israel’s temple in the Old Testament was accessible to the Gentiles as well as the Jews, and is the place where all the offerings were brought. It represents the Gentile world to whom mercy will be cut off in the Great Tribulation. No offerings of prayerful repentance will be received by God after the Bride is gone, because the close of the Gentile Age shuts off access to the Atonement for all except the 144,000 Jews. Instead, the city of Jerusalem will be besieged (or trampled) by the Gentile nations during the forty-two months of the Great Tribulation. Jerusalem will become the new headquarters of Catholicism (Daniel 11:45), and the third temple (which will be built after the Dome of the Rock that presently occupies the Temple Mount is destroyed) will be desecrated by the Man of Sin who will enthrone himself as God within it according to 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.

Whilst the Great Tribulation envelops the world, God will have His two prophets in Jerusalem preaching Christ to the Jewish nation for the space of 1260 days or three-and-half years. The two prophets are said to be clothed in sackcloth, which was worn by the Jews to express a state of mourning or humiliation. The sackcloth of the two prophets is representative of the mourning that will follow Israel’s being called back to the true Atonement of Jesus Christ. When the 144,000 Jews of Revelation chapter seven recognize Christ, they shall weep deeply in sorrow and repentance, realizing that their forefathers rejected Him so long ago, thus fulfilling the words of Zechariah 12:9-14.

The official start of the Great Tribulation happens at the signing of the covenant between Rome and Israel (Daniel 9:27), which will trap the Jews inside the clutches of the Beast. When the two prophets come, they are not only calling the elected Jews out of Judaism, but will also be calling them out of the Roman system which Israel is in covenant with (please read Daniel’s seventy weeks).

Of the two prophets God uses to call Israel back to the true Atonement, one of them will have the ministry of Moses, and the other will have the ministry of Elijah. This is confirmed to us in Revelation 11:5-6. It was Elijah who called down fire from Heaven that destroyed two captains and their fifties (2 Kings 1:9-12), and who shut the heavens so that it did not rain (1 Kings 17:1; James 5:17). It was Moses who turned the waters to blood (Exodus 7:20-21).

The two prophets by the power of the Spoken Word will smite the earth with all kinds of plagues during the days of their ministry, and will execute judgment against all that oppose them. These plagues are connected with the seven trumpets, whereas the plagues of the seven vials are not poured out till Armageddon, which happens after the two prophets are killed.

Israel was trapped in Pharaoh’s system when God raised up Moses to take them out of Egyptian hands, and Israel was later trapped in Jezebel’s system when God raised up Elijah to take them out of Jezebel’s hands. Moses smote Egypt with plagues when he was delivering Israel, and Elijah smote the land with the plague of famine when he too was delivering Israel. Then in the Great Tribulation, when Israel is trapped in a covenant with Rome, the two prophets will smite the earth with plagues whilst they are delivering the elected Jews.

Israel’s revival under the ministry of the two prophets is what will keep Russia and its armies, along with the Beast and its armies at bay. The invasion of Israel by Russia and the Beast will have already begun during the Great Tribulation, but the success of it will be limited because of the two prophets in the land (please read Gog and his armies & the Beast and his armies). When the two prophets have finished their ministry, and the 144,000 Jews have been sealed by the Holy Spirit, Rome then breaks its covenant with Israel and kills the two prophets and the 144,000 Jews (Revelation 11:7). After this, Israel will be completely overrun, the city of Jerusalem will be taken and pillaged, the women raped, and many will be taken prisoner (Zechariah 14:1-2).

The bodies of the two prophets will lay dead and unburied in the street of central Jerusalem (Revelation 11:8) for the space of three-and-a-half days, the horrific scene of which will be broadcast for all the world to see via television and social media etcetera (Revelation 11:9). The whole world will rejoice at the news of the prophets’ deaths, and will celebrate the occasion by sending gifts to one another (Revelation 11:10). This was a tradition dating back to Roman times when a victorious battle was celebrated by the exchanging of gifts. And why is the whole world so thrilled at the news of the deaths? Because the death of the two prophets brings an end to the plagues. The celebration will be short-lived however, for the plagues of the seven vials are next be poured out.

The world will then witness a miracle broadcast live for all to see. After three-and-a-half days, the spirit of life will return to the corpses of the prophets, and they shall rise to their feet and be raptured in a cloud to Heaven whilst their enemies look on in astonishment and disbelief (Revelation 11:11-12). In the same hour the prophets are raptured, a great earthquake will shake the nation of Israel and collapse a tenth part of Jerusalem, killing seven thousand (Revelation 11:13). Most of the lives claimed in the earthquake will be soldiers of the armies that have plundered Jerusalem.

It is interesting that the Bible injects the phrase… “The second woe is past; and behold, the third woe cometh quickly!” (Revelation 11:14). We have learned that the second woe is World War Two that took place under the sixth trumpet; but here the scriptures speak as though the second woe ends following the death of the two prophets. But this is not so, for if we read it correctly, we come to understand that the second woe (World War Two) is indeed past, for it ended in 1945, and the third woe under the seventh trumpet is imminent (or cometh quickly), because the Great Tribulation and World War Three unfold shortly after the Bride finishes up her commission in Revelation 10:8-11.

The seventh trumpet described in Revelation 11:15-19 is a preview of the third woe and is a parallel of the seventh seal, for the two are inextricably linked. As the seventh seal reveals Christ to the Bride under the ministry of a Gentile prophet, so the seventh trumpet reveals Christ to the Jews under the ministry of the two Jewish prophets. The nineteenth verse confirms this when John saw the heavenly sanctuary opened and the Ark in plain view. The Ark represents Christ, and Heaven represents the Word (because It consists of the Word), so John is seeing a great opening of the Word that reveals Jesus Christ, which is exactly the same thing that is happening under the seventh seal.

Although the seventh trumpet is not said to have sounded until Revelation 11:15, yet the details of the entire eleventh chapter are all connected with it, because the seventh trumpet has to do with the calling and sealing of the 144,000 Jews, followed by the smiting of the nations and the delivering of Jerusalem in World War Three, and then Christ setting up His Kingdom. The seventh trumpet is truly vast, for the reality of the matter is this, that when Paul wrote of the last trump (1 Corinthians 15:52), he is referring to the seventh trumpet, because it raises the dead in Christ and closes off the Gentile Age in order to open up the Jewish Age.

The sounding of the seventh trumpet is when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and Savior; in other words, this is the final jubilee or transference of ownership, whereby the creation is restored back to the Creator (Jesus Christ). But the spirits of the nations are angry by the sounding of the great trumpet (Revelation 11:18), for they know that their time is up, and that they will be bound with Satan for a thousand years (Revelation 20:1-3) during the great millennial reign of Christ and His Bride.

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