Post by Jo Smith on Sept 9, 2020 20:00:22 GMT -5
From Dry Bones to Power
Stand Upon Your Feet. … Anointing of power from God
Acts 14:9-11 King James Version (KJV)
8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
A man who had never walked was told, STAND upright on thy feet. THEN HE LEAPED AND WALKED. POWER OF GOD.
Ezekiel 37 King James Version (KJV)
37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
The dry bones are not a fleshly Israel, as most people think. The word of God is not about them. There is a great mystery here. It does not say these bones are DEAD. It said they are DRY. But it says, can they live. Jesus said we are passed from death to life. This happens when we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And that is just what happened here to these dry bones. Jesus said you are DEAD in trespasses and sins. But you shall pass from this death to life. Jesus breathed on his disciples and said, Receive you the Holy Ghost. So this is when God breathed the breathe of life into these dry bones.
On the Day of Pentecost there was a great noise; a great shaking; and bone came to bone. Jesus said we are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Those bones said, we are cut off from our parts. See they were not yet baptized into the body of Christ, where we would all become ONE Body.
The Word of God is about Jesus Christ and his body; yet people have reduced it down to being about one group of people, the natural Jews. Not so. In Christ there is neither. We are all ONE.
On the Day of Pentecost those dry, (not yet baptized), bones came to life and STOOD UP ON THEIR FEET, [ a sign of being given great power]...... and became a GREAT ARMY.
That great army went out and conquered the world, turning it upside down for Jesus. The Jews that had murdered Jesus hated these powerful Witnesses and murdered them everywhere.
But later something else bad happened. There rose up another evil enemy called Rome. This evil enemy began killing out those mighty witnesses. They pursued them everywhere until there were no more with that mighty power.
After this there came up a dead church which is the seat of Satan. All along the way there were still some Christians, but they did not have that great WITNESS power. They were killed and destroyed all along the way. The lies of this evil church system soon took away the knowledge of the truth from those witnesses and it came to be that THE WITNESSES LAY DEAD IN THE STREETS.
The streets show the path of life. It is not man-made roads. The carnal mind makes havoc of all the Word of God, being led of Satan, the natural interpretation of Scripture.
This does not imply that there were 2 literal dead men in a street somewhere. That is utter carnal junk. It is totally misinterpreting the Word of God down to foolishness. It is showing that now the witnesses, Christians, have no real power. When Peter, Paul and the others in that first Witness group were alive as men/women, they had the power to heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead etc.
But when the time came for them to be killed they submitted to this just as Jesus had. The lies of the carnal church soon deceived most people and they took up idol worship, such as all holidays, and even went so far as to go back to full law = must keep a sabbath etc. Now the 'witnesses' are laying 'dead' and powerless.
Jesus told the religious groups of his day, you are whited graves that appear not; outward you are beautiful but on the inside you are full of DEAD MEN'S BONES.
See that connection?
Were they really dead? It is totally spiritual. They were dead spiritually.
Now go back to the man whom Paul healed in the beginning verses in Acts 14. This man had never walked in his life. He did not have the power to stand up on his feet. … naturally.
But when Paul was about to heal him, he said, STAND UP ON YOUR FEET.
This is the essence of this message. STAND UP ON YOUR FEET.
When this happens it means you are given a great power. When the dry bones in Ezekiel 37 came to powerful life, they STOOD UP ON THEIR FEET AND BECAME A GREAT ARMY THAT TOOK DOWN MUCH OF SATAN'S KINGDOM, AT THAT TIME.
Revelation 11 King James Version (KJV)
11 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
The error of the church and its false teachers prevents people from seeing any of this truth. The error that this is about 2 literal men who are killed and lay dead in natural streets is so wrong that no one can see the truth of this. They even guess at who it is. They say Elijah and Moses, when scripture does not say one word of this. It is SIN AND EVIL TO ADD TO GOD'S WORD.
Now I got the understanding of this as we must get all truth, from other Scripture.
So here it is:
First the verses that revealed it to me:
Joel 2: 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
Right here God reveals TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO RECEIVE POWER FROM ON HIGH AND ARE WITNESSES FOR GOD.
I had no intention of going into this when I started this message; but I prayed and asked God to open this up to me His way and this is where it led to.
Notice in verse 28, God poured out his Spirit upon ALL FLESH. The signs of this outpouring was prophesy, dreams and visions. This was at the day of Pentecost and Acts 10 where God brought in the Gentiles into the same salvation. This was to ALL FLESH. Everyone could have this outpouring of the Holy Ghost.
This group of empowered people is the first of those two witnesses. Jesus told his disciples over and over, Ye are my witnesses. Yet, the church ignores this and brings up a false doctrine because they are still deceived by natural Jews.
This first Witness, [that entire group of Holy Ghost filled Christians] was that first witness and turned the world upside down for Jesus. They have the power.
Rev 11: 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Now I will show you what reveals who these two are:
[You can't get this kind of truth from a church or preacher; you must get it from Scripture].
Zechariah 4 King James Version (KJV)
4 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Now the above verses proves that the two witnesses or the two anointed ones, are two empowered groups of God's people. One came before the seven churches in Revelation and the other came after.
That is clearly revealed in these verses. One on the right side of the bowl and the other and the left side clearly shows on coming before and one coming after. The seven candlesticks are those seven churches. Those two olive branches are those two anointed one, the two witnesses of Revelation 11.
Now back to Joel 2: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
Notice verse 29 begins a new sentence. 'and also' means in addition to the above.....in addition to pouring out my Spirit on all flesh, I am going to do something else. I will pour out my spirit another time, this time on only the servants and handmaids; not all flesh.
Notice also the signs of this outpouring.... blood, fire and pillars of smoke. Then it shows that before this outpouring the sun [true teaching of Jesus, grace, will be darkened. This is true now. No truth out there. That is all this means; not the literal sun up in the sky. That is total carnality as is all their doctrines. ...and the moon [night light or law] into blood. Why is this? It must come to the blood of Jesus to become people of God].
Now back to Revelation 11. This is speaking about both witnesses. It groups them as one so as to show that we are all one. But the fact that they were divided in time, allowing for the seven churches to come in between their time on earth, shows it as two different ones. But we must understand the nature of each one to rightly divide these verses.
We are told to rightly divide the Word of God. So here goes:
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
The two verses are speaking of the second outpouring. This is the group of servants and handmaids. They received the baptism of FIRE. The purpose of this Spirit is to bring the judgments on the earth and wicked people. See then that they fit Psalm 149, the people of God who have the FIRE coming out of their mouth to devoure their enemies.
The Witness group in Acts did not do this. It was shown a time or two as with the deaths of Ananias and his wife.
But that first witness group went about saving lost souls, healing the sick, raising the dead and setting up churches. They did not bring the last judgments. This second group of witnesses will do that.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
These verses, 7 – 12 are speaking of that first group of witnesses. After they finished witnessing to the world, the beast, the false church/ministers, rose up against them and overcame them with their false teachings and killed the life out of them. So then there rose up a 'dead' church, denying all the power of God and keeping all the idol holidays. Devil worshipers claiming to be of God.
The Xmess holiday is clearly shown here to be a celebration of killing off the power of God and bringing up a dead, lifeless church; doting on fancy building, setting up priests and popes and pastors/evangelists who rake in money and more money deceiving the people on earth with their false teachings.
Verse 11 shows the coming again of another anointed group of WITNESSES. They came back to life and STOOD UPON THEIR FEET.
Stand upon their feet. This is the sure sign of being given power again. The dry bones came back to LIFE AND STOOD ON THEIR FEET AND BECAME A GREAT ARMY.
So this second witness will again come back to life, and STAND UPON THEIR FEET AND BECOME A GREAT ARMY. They will then take over the kingdoms of this world and make them to become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ.
Nothing and no one will be able to stand before them. They will take down all evil and set up the kingdom of Christ on this earth. The FIRE coming out of their mouths will stop all evil off this earth.
THEY WILL be caught up to the heavens again and the satanic folks on earth will not be able to destroy this Witness.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
So the coming of this second group of witnesses will be the second woe to this earth. Immediately after this, the seventh angel sounds the seventh trumpet, which brings the Resurrection of the dead or sleeping saints. They will join in with this group of living witnesses and reign forever and ever.
Before I end this message I want to show you the timing of these events as shown in Revelation 12. It has taken me many, many years of devout studying to come to this understanding. I certainly had no one going before me that had any of this to help me. God taught me all the way Himself. And I am thankful for that, for I know it is right.
Revelation 12: Revelation 12 King James Version (KJV)
12 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: [the twleve stars are those twelve apostles]
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
The above goes back to the beginning of that First Witness, the Apostolic group in Acts. It begins with the Birth of Jesus and goes down to the murdering of the saints that came forth on the Day of Pentecost. They obeyed what Jesus said in Mat 24... fled into the wilderness or out of that old law system, into a new move of God and was fed there for a thousand two hundred and threescore days. This is time from the Apostles down to the time of the Second Witness.
Notice also in verse 5, it goes to the time when they are caught up to God and his throne as told in chapter 11.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Verse 14 picks up with the anointing of that Second Witness. This time she is given two wings, [this goes back to Adam's original state, that of being God-like in power].... of a great eagle.....this time she flies into another wilderness, [out of that church system to a new move of God].... into her place, [that kingdom age].... this time she is nourished for
A TIME, AND TIMES, AND HALF A TIME.
This is a total DIFFERENT time from the thousand and so days. Go back to Daniel 12 and you will see, this is the only other time this is named in Scripture so it has to be the same time.
It is just before the resurrection of the sleeping or dead saints.
That flood coming out of the mouth of the dragon/serpent, is the many many lies of false doctrine pouring out right now to try and keep this Mother from bringing forth this second Witness, for Satan knows that he is finished when this happens.
But nothing will stop it. God said it and it will be. Praise God for this glorious truth. We will again be empowered from on high, with the baptism of Fire, and STAND UP ON OUR FEET, A MIGHTY ARMY THAT NOTHING CAN STOP.
By: Jo Smith …. September 9, 2020
Stand Upon Your Feet. … Anointing of power from God
Acts 14:9-11 King James Version (KJV)
8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
A man who had never walked was told, STAND upright on thy feet. THEN HE LEAPED AND WALKED. POWER OF GOD.
Ezekiel 37 King James Version (KJV)
37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
The dry bones are not a fleshly Israel, as most people think. The word of God is not about them. There is a great mystery here. It does not say these bones are DEAD. It said they are DRY. But it says, can they live. Jesus said we are passed from death to life. This happens when we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And that is just what happened here to these dry bones. Jesus said you are DEAD in trespasses and sins. But you shall pass from this death to life. Jesus breathed on his disciples and said, Receive you the Holy Ghost. So this is when God breathed the breathe of life into these dry bones.
On the Day of Pentecost there was a great noise; a great shaking; and bone came to bone. Jesus said we are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Those bones said, we are cut off from our parts. See they were not yet baptized into the body of Christ, where we would all become ONE Body.
The Word of God is about Jesus Christ and his body; yet people have reduced it down to being about one group of people, the natural Jews. Not so. In Christ there is neither. We are all ONE.
On the Day of Pentecost those dry, (not yet baptized), bones came to life and STOOD UP ON THEIR FEET, [ a sign of being given great power]...... and became a GREAT ARMY.
That great army went out and conquered the world, turning it upside down for Jesus. The Jews that had murdered Jesus hated these powerful Witnesses and murdered them everywhere.
But later something else bad happened. There rose up another evil enemy called Rome. This evil enemy began killing out those mighty witnesses. They pursued them everywhere until there were no more with that mighty power.
After this there came up a dead church which is the seat of Satan. All along the way there were still some Christians, but they did not have that great WITNESS power. They were killed and destroyed all along the way. The lies of this evil church system soon took away the knowledge of the truth from those witnesses and it came to be that THE WITNESSES LAY DEAD IN THE STREETS.
The streets show the path of life. It is not man-made roads. The carnal mind makes havoc of all the Word of God, being led of Satan, the natural interpretation of Scripture.
This does not imply that there were 2 literal dead men in a street somewhere. That is utter carnal junk. It is totally misinterpreting the Word of God down to foolishness. It is showing that now the witnesses, Christians, have no real power. When Peter, Paul and the others in that first Witness group were alive as men/women, they had the power to heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead etc.
But when the time came for them to be killed they submitted to this just as Jesus had. The lies of the carnal church soon deceived most people and they took up idol worship, such as all holidays, and even went so far as to go back to full law = must keep a sabbath etc. Now the 'witnesses' are laying 'dead' and powerless.
Jesus told the religious groups of his day, you are whited graves that appear not; outward you are beautiful but on the inside you are full of DEAD MEN'S BONES.
See that connection?
Were they really dead? It is totally spiritual. They were dead spiritually.
Now go back to the man whom Paul healed in the beginning verses in Acts 14. This man had never walked in his life. He did not have the power to stand up on his feet. … naturally.
But when Paul was about to heal him, he said, STAND UP ON YOUR FEET.
This is the essence of this message. STAND UP ON YOUR FEET.
When this happens it means you are given a great power. When the dry bones in Ezekiel 37 came to powerful life, they STOOD UP ON THEIR FEET AND BECAME A GREAT ARMY THAT TOOK DOWN MUCH OF SATAN'S KINGDOM, AT THAT TIME.
Revelation 11 King James Version (KJV)
11 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
The error of the church and its false teachers prevents people from seeing any of this truth. The error that this is about 2 literal men who are killed and lay dead in natural streets is so wrong that no one can see the truth of this. They even guess at who it is. They say Elijah and Moses, when scripture does not say one word of this. It is SIN AND EVIL TO ADD TO GOD'S WORD.
Now I got the understanding of this as we must get all truth, from other Scripture.
So here it is:
First the verses that revealed it to me:
Joel 2: 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
Right here God reveals TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO RECEIVE POWER FROM ON HIGH AND ARE WITNESSES FOR GOD.
I had no intention of going into this when I started this message; but I prayed and asked God to open this up to me His way and this is where it led to.
Notice in verse 28, God poured out his Spirit upon ALL FLESH. The signs of this outpouring was prophesy, dreams and visions. This was at the day of Pentecost and Acts 10 where God brought in the Gentiles into the same salvation. This was to ALL FLESH. Everyone could have this outpouring of the Holy Ghost.
This group of empowered people is the first of those two witnesses. Jesus told his disciples over and over, Ye are my witnesses. Yet, the church ignores this and brings up a false doctrine because they are still deceived by natural Jews.
This first Witness, [that entire group of Holy Ghost filled Christians] was that first witness and turned the world upside down for Jesus. They have the power.
Rev 11: 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
Now I will show you what reveals who these two are:
[You can't get this kind of truth from a church or preacher; you must get it from Scripture].
Zechariah 4 King James Version (KJV)
4 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Now the above verses proves that the two witnesses or the two anointed ones, are two empowered groups of God's people. One came before the seven churches in Revelation and the other came after.
That is clearly revealed in these verses. One on the right side of the bowl and the other and the left side clearly shows on coming before and one coming after. The seven candlesticks are those seven churches. Those two olive branches are those two anointed one, the two witnesses of Revelation 11.
Now back to Joel 2: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
Notice verse 29 begins a new sentence. 'and also' means in addition to the above.....in addition to pouring out my Spirit on all flesh, I am going to do something else. I will pour out my spirit another time, this time on only the servants and handmaids; not all flesh.
Notice also the signs of this outpouring.... blood, fire and pillars of smoke. Then it shows that before this outpouring the sun [true teaching of Jesus, grace, will be darkened. This is true now. No truth out there. That is all this means; not the literal sun up in the sky. That is total carnality as is all their doctrines. ...and the moon [night light or law] into blood. Why is this? It must come to the blood of Jesus to become people of God].
Now back to Revelation 11. This is speaking about both witnesses. It groups them as one so as to show that we are all one. But the fact that they were divided in time, allowing for the seven churches to come in between their time on earth, shows it as two different ones. But we must understand the nature of each one to rightly divide these verses.
We are told to rightly divide the Word of God. So here goes:
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
The two verses are speaking of the second outpouring. This is the group of servants and handmaids. They received the baptism of FIRE. The purpose of this Spirit is to bring the judgments on the earth and wicked people. See then that they fit Psalm 149, the people of God who have the FIRE coming out of their mouth to devoure their enemies.
The Witness group in Acts did not do this. It was shown a time or two as with the deaths of Ananias and his wife.
But that first witness group went about saving lost souls, healing the sick, raising the dead and setting up churches. They did not bring the last judgments. This second group of witnesses will do that.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
These verses, 7 – 12 are speaking of that first group of witnesses. After they finished witnessing to the world, the beast, the false church/ministers, rose up against them and overcame them with their false teachings and killed the life out of them. So then there rose up a 'dead' church, denying all the power of God and keeping all the idol holidays. Devil worshipers claiming to be of God.
The Xmess holiday is clearly shown here to be a celebration of killing off the power of God and bringing up a dead, lifeless church; doting on fancy building, setting up priests and popes and pastors/evangelists who rake in money and more money deceiving the people on earth with their false teachings.
Verse 11 shows the coming again of another anointed group of WITNESSES. They came back to life and STOOD UPON THEIR FEET.
Stand upon their feet. This is the sure sign of being given power again. The dry bones came back to LIFE AND STOOD ON THEIR FEET AND BECAME A GREAT ARMY.
So this second witness will again come back to life, and STAND UPON THEIR FEET AND BECOME A GREAT ARMY. They will then take over the kingdoms of this world and make them to become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ.
Nothing and no one will be able to stand before them. They will take down all evil and set up the kingdom of Christ on this earth. The FIRE coming out of their mouths will stop all evil off this earth.
THEY WILL be caught up to the heavens again and the satanic folks on earth will not be able to destroy this Witness.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
So the coming of this second group of witnesses will be the second woe to this earth. Immediately after this, the seventh angel sounds the seventh trumpet, which brings the Resurrection of the dead or sleeping saints. They will join in with this group of living witnesses and reign forever and ever.
Before I end this message I want to show you the timing of these events as shown in Revelation 12. It has taken me many, many years of devout studying to come to this understanding. I certainly had no one going before me that had any of this to help me. God taught me all the way Himself. And I am thankful for that, for I know it is right.
Revelation 12: Revelation 12 King James Version (KJV)
12 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: [the twleve stars are those twelve apostles]
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
The above goes back to the beginning of that First Witness, the Apostolic group in Acts. It begins with the Birth of Jesus and goes down to the murdering of the saints that came forth on the Day of Pentecost. They obeyed what Jesus said in Mat 24... fled into the wilderness or out of that old law system, into a new move of God and was fed there for a thousand two hundred and threescore days. This is time from the Apostles down to the time of the Second Witness.
Notice also in verse 5, it goes to the time when they are caught up to God and his throne as told in chapter 11.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Verse 14 picks up with the anointing of that Second Witness. This time she is given two wings, [this goes back to Adam's original state, that of being God-like in power].... of a great eagle.....this time she flies into another wilderness, [out of that church system to a new move of God].... into her place, [that kingdom age].... this time she is nourished for
A TIME, AND TIMES, AND HALF A TIME.
This is a total DIFFERENT time from the thousand and so days. Go back to Daniel 12 and you will see, this is the only other time this is named in Scripture so it has to be the same time.
It is just before the resurrection of the sleeping or dead saints.
That flood coming out of the mouth of the dragon/serpent, is the many many lies of false doctrine pouring out right now to try and keep this Mother from bringing forth this second Witness, for Satan knows that he is finished when this happens.
But nothing will stop it. God said it and it will be. Praise God for this glorious truth. We will again be empowered from on high, with the baptism of Fire, and STAND UP ON OUR FEET, A MIGHTY ARMY THAT NOTHING CAN STOP.
By: Jo Smith …. September 9, 2020