DAD'S RAMBLINGS – THE WITNESS
"And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.' These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth." (Revelation 11: 3-4)
Even in the worst of times, God will have His witnesses here on this earth. During the Great Tribulation, God will send these two witnesses from heaven to declare His message and they will be murdered for that witness. Later in John's vision, he saw "another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth – to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people" (Revelation 14:7).
God will not leave this world without a witness. He has sent prophets throughout the millennia. In addition, the Apostle John wrote that "there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood" (I John 5:8). We have the witness of the word of the prophets and the Apostles, the Holy Spirit, and the Lord Jesus who came by water and blood (vs. 6).
We also are His witnesses. He commissioned us as His disciples go into all the world and preach the Gospel (Mark 16:15) in the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8). In these troubled times, we need the declaration of His love and His grace, but we also need the witness of the judgment to come.
The word translated "witness" is in the Greek language, martus, from which we get the word, "martyr." A martyr is someone who has seen the truth and gives his life as a witness to the truth. Some witnesses die for that truth. But we are all called to give our lives to the declaration of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus. Every witness is a martyr.
Love, Dad
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