Just in case anyone has bought into the error presented on this forum that Jesus is one of the two witnesses mentioned here...
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
...please be advised of the following:
Rom 6:8-10 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: (9) Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him. (10) For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto God.
GINOLJC, to all.
First thanks for the reply, second, there are two DEATHS. the first death is from the natural flesh which our Lord died from, supportive scripture, Revelation 1:17 "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:"
Revelation 1:18 "I am he that liveth,
and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."
NOW, knowing that he died a natural death in flesh, back to
Revelation 11:8 "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."
dead bodies shall lie in the street is a representative symbol of a violent death, or a shameful death. for he was crucified with the guilty, yet himself innocent. in our slang today, "street violence", as we say someone died a horrible death. John beheaded, the Lord Jesus crucified, violent deaths. that's about the worst it could be in that time and day.
now, the Great city called Sodom and Egypt spiritually is none other than Jerusalem itself, (who kills the prophets), and "WHERE OUR LORD WAS CRUCIFIED", that's Jerusalem. spiritually, Isaiah 1:8 "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,
as a besieged city."Isaiah 1:9 "Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as
Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah."
and Spiritually Egypt? Isaiah 51:9 "
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut
Rahab,
and wounded the dragon?" for the TERM "Rahab" was addressed to Jerusalem, listen, Isaiah 51:17 "
Awake, awake, stand up,
O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out." and this,
and the TERM "Rahab is a spiritual name for "Egypt". in hebrew at Isaiah 51:9 it is,
H7294 רַהַב
Rahab (rah'-haɓ) n-m.
Rahab (i.e. boaster),
an epithet of Egypt.
[the same as H7293]
KJV: Rahab.
Root(s): H7293
BINGO,
an epithet of Egypt.
in Revelation 18:10 "Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas,
that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come”. here, the code name for Jerusalem is that "GREAT CITY". in Revelation 17:18 "
And the woman which thou sawest is that
great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth”. and that cup in the woman hand Isaiah describe clearly, again, Isaiah 51:17 "Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out."
The “GREAT CITY” is Jerusalem. which is spiritually called Rahab/Egypt, and Sodom. BINGO.
so all you who say that the Roman Catholic Church is that "Great City" the scarlet woman with the cup in here hand, well get off the Roman Catholic Church backs with that nonesense. face the facts, it's the old dragon seat "Jerusalem".
so Rev 11:8 "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified".
well it proved out that the city is Jerusalem.
PICJAG.
101G The "Spiritual Saboteur"
Another successful sabotage operation....
