Could the two witnesses be from the past?

[quietthinker]

Satan sat and watched humans for 1000 years. He had way to much time to think and do nothing about his thoughts. Yes God created him that way, knowing the full end of what creation would go through.

We cannot sit and think that we know better than God and become morally smug and superior.

Where do you see moral smugness and superiority?

 

[Timtofly]

Where do you see moral smugness and superiority?

In the way people think like Satan does. They claim they are morally superior to God.

That is the prime issue Satan has. Why even allow evil and sin? Not my question. The question many use to make themselves superior to God.

Satan seems to be the prime example of why people think like Satan.

 

[quietthinker]

In the way people think like Satan does. They claim they are morally superior to God.

How does this relate with the witness to/for God?

 

[Timtofly]

How does this relate with the witness to/for God?

It is your angle. I was trying to get where your context was coming from.

Not sure why you relate Satan to the two witnesses.

 

[quietthinker]

It is your angle. I was trying to get where your context was coming from.

Not sure why you relate Satan to the two witnesses.

righty!

 

[Oseas]

It's context that I'm hoping to clarify, the context being Satan misrepresenting God. It begs the question, if that was the case why din't God get rid of him right at the outset? The answer would be, there would thereafter be doubt in the angels minds whether Lucifer had a valid point.

Evil needed to come to a ripening so that all could see the malevolence of Lucifer....what was concealed was to be uncovered. At Calvary, the two forces met their climax. What God is really like was publicly displayed when he allowed his creatures to kill him. Satan also was unmasked; his objective for all to see. This is the prime issue. The witness is to the character of God.

There was a metamorphosis (a changing of nature) in the anointed Cherubim that was created by God to protect the God's Garden, the Garden of Eden.

See what the MAN Satan, the Man of sin, son of perdition, was like before he be Satan, and being him as a ruler of the Garden.

GOD said :
Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the Garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, ...: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed Cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the Holy Mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast PERFECT in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. Ezekiel 28:v.13-15


Jude 1:v.6-7
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate (their native state), but left their own habitation(they left their celestial nature), he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the Judgment of this Great Day. - the Lord's Day -

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them (the angels)in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.


Now, in the restoration or restitution of all things, will be an inverse process, that is, from an animal nature to a celestial nature, as follows:

Luke 20:v.35-36
35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world (the Kingdom of GOD, the Paradise, the third Heaven or third heavenly environment to be established from now on-Revelation 11:v.15 to 18) , and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: (Again> a changing of nature pro restoration or restitution of Paradise)

36 Neither can they die any more -Aleluia!- : for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of GOD, being the children of the resurrection.


There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are One. Aleluia!