A little scroll was laying open in his hand.

I think the scroll has been rolled up until now. Now it is open and we can understand the plan of God for the last daysùin fact we can understand the whole plan of redemption. I don't think this has been true previously from what I have read.

It is a "little" scroll. The fourth chapter of Zechariah, from which the symbolism of the two witnesses is taken, asks "who has despised the day of small things?"

I have noticed that God likes to do big things in small circumstances, like mangers. I think it is characteristic of the flesh to demand large numbers of people, huge buildings, great amounts of money before it will admit that anything is happening.

But when you take this attitude you miss Elijah, Ezekiel, the Apostle Paul, and other people who aren't that popular. You have to be in prayer, like Anna and Simeon, if you don't want to miss the main attraction.

The fact that the angel had one foot on the sea and one on the earth reveals his enormous size. He was not on the beach with one wet foot and one dry foot. He was a colossus standing astride the continents and oceans of the earth.

What he is telling us is this, "Day to day utters speech. Night to night brings knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard."

The end-time saints will bring the Gospel of the Kingdom wherever people breathe the air. The Gospel will be preached for a witness. This is important to understand. We think of the Gospel as going forth to get people saved and build churches. But the end-time revival will be for the purpose of bearing a true witness of God, His Person, His ways, His will, and His eternal purposes in Jesus Christ. How people react to the witness is up to them.

It seems to me it makes a big difference how we go about things when we are trying to bear a true witness of God as distinguished from trying to get people saved. The Holy Spirit gives us power to bear witness. Sometimes when we are trying to get people into the church we compromise the witness. We start looking to people instead of to the Lord.

God wants a true witness to be borne to the nations of the earth. God entrusted the witness to the Jews and to the Christians. Both have come short of the Glory of God, as I see it.

The witness of God must include first of all, acts of righteousness. Second, works of stupendous power.

If there is righteousness without power we have godly people following a moral code. If we have power without righteousness we have no witness of God. Who would believe Jesus Christ or the Apostle Paul if they were living in the filthiness of the flesh?

God wants righteousness created in His churches today. Righteous behavior. He wants believers who are truthful, upright, faithful, kind, merciful, loyal, free from the sins of the flesh, humble of heart as they walk with the Lord. Such are the light of the world.

Then God wants to clothe these righteous people with Divine power so they can perform the works described in the eleventh chapter of the Book of Revelation.

To be continued.