The first appearance of the victorious saints is as the sealed servants of the Lord. The second appearance is in the form of the second lampstand of Revelation, Chapter Eleven.

I understand the two witnesses have been described by some as Moses and Elijah, or Enoch and Elijah. Actually Elijah and Elisha might be better candidates because of the things that transpired in their lives.

However it is not likely that God is going to bring two bearded patriarchs down from Heaven to do the work assigned by the Lord Jesus Christ to His Church. After all, he who is least in the Kingdom is greater than any of the prophets, or so the Lord said.

The task of witnessing to the world of the atoning death and triumphant resurrection of the Lord Jesus has been assigned to the members of His Body.

The golden lampstand of the Tabernacle of the Congregation always represents Christ and those who are part of Christ. The Lampstand is Messiah, the One anointed with the Holy Spirit to bear witness of God.

The Lampstand was golden, representing Divinity.

In the fourth chapter of the Book of Zechariah, from which the figures in Revelation, Chapter Eleven are taken, we see only one lampstand, that is Messiah, or Christ. But in Revelation Eleven there are two lampstands.

Who is the other lampstand?

Christ is the Light of the world. But He referred to His saints as the light of the world.

In Revelation we notice there are seven lampstands, seven churches.

If Christ and His Church are the only lampstands of God, how come there are not eight lampstands Christ and the seven churches? It is because the second lampstand consists of the victorious saints, the church within the churches.

The latter-rain revival, the harvest revival mentioned on four occasions in the Scriptures, is portrayed in Revelation Eleven as two lampstands and two olive trees. The two lampstands, as we understand it, are Christ and the victorious saints. The two olive trees speak of the double portion of the Spirit, the Elisha anointing, that will enable Christ in and with His saints to perform the greater works and to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God in all the world for a witness to every nation. Then the end of the Church Age will have come. Here is the fulfillment of the two wave loaves of the Jewish feast of Pentecost.

The witness given by Christ working in and with His victorious saints will be different from the witness we have known because it will be accompanied by works of judgment and destruction. Such works are necessary if the nations of the earth are to be awakened to the nearness of the coming of the Kingdom of God, a kingdom that will be installed on the earth with great violence.

As soon as the witness has been given to the Spirit's satisfaction the special anointing will be lifted. Then the saints will be driven from the cities of the earth and forced to live in hiding until the return of the Lord. The witness will be brought to an end by the spirit of the world, by the lusts of the flesh, and by the envy of self-seeking people (Egypt, Sodom, and Jerusalem).

There is an age of moral horrors at hand. Also ahead is the climax of the latter- rain outpouring. You and I have no time to waste. Let us ask the Lord for rain in the time of the harvest rain. To everyone who asks shall be given an abundance of rain and great fruitfulness.

The present world is going nowhere fast. Turn now to the Lord and give your life some meaning.

To be continued.