The two witnesses of Revelation, Chapter 11 emphasize the last two keys. This is because it is in the area of the severity of God that the Christian testimony has been warped by those who would make man the center of the universe, valuing the "rights" of people more than the eternal purpose of God and His Christ.

When the two witnesses turn the third key, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. This is the key of the torment of the judgment of God. The environment of the peoples of the earth becomes one of torment, whereas prior to the Kingdom witness the nations had been living at ease on the earth. These two witnesses "torment" those who dwell on the earth.

When the two witnesses turn the fourth key, that which had been serving as "life" turns into manifest death. The power of death is revealed in the "power to shut heaven, that it rain not," and in the "power over waters to turn them to blood." Rain and water in the Scriptures are symbolic of God's Spirit and Life. Blood is the corrupt life of the flesh.

Today there are many voices, both in the churches and in the world, that profess to bring life and power to people, either by a metaphysical principle, by some educational scheme, by new political leadership, or by some other instrument that can be used by human beings to their own advantage. People are confused, not knowing what truly is God's voice and eternal life or what is not God's voice or eternal life.

The saints, not having the third and fourth keys of the Kingdom, are powerless to do more than argue doctrine and hope that Christ will come and remove them from the earth to Heaven.

But when God's witnesses are authorized and empowered to turn the fourth key of the Kingdom they will cause that which appears to be God's Spirit, and professes to lead toward Paradise, to be cut off at the source; and what is here already to be "turned to blood," that is, to be manifested as the corruption and death it indeed is.

The solution to the problem of the feeble witness of today, and the abominable perversions that are taking place, is the keys of the Kingdom of God—the fourfold key of David. Money, politics, group action, and other flesh and blood efforts may provide a temporary relief for a specific problem. But the cause of mankind's agony is Satan, not people; and Satan is not harmed by money, political efforts, or group action.

Satan has no fear whatever of the organized efforts of flesh and blood. But Satan does fear the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. If we will turn to God the Father and ask Him in Jesus' name for the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, He will begin to prepare us so we can receive and use these keys.

When we are competent to receive the keys, He will issue them to us. We then shall be able to bear a true Kingdom witness throughout the whole earth, which is the will of God for the period of time just before the Lord returns.

To be continued.