will be
called Sodom and Egypt; but, lest we should mistake the place from these
names, John adds: "Where also our Lord was crucified." So Isaiah i. 10
says: "Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the
law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah." This fixes safely the place.
Besides, the place is pointed out from the fact that they oppose
Anti-Christ, who at that time we know will be at Jerusalem. Third. They
are sent. You ask where they are sent from? The answer is, From heaven,
from standing before the God of the whole earth. Fourth. Who sends
them? We answer, Jesus--because the Book of the Revelation is "the
Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto John." Fifth. What were
they sent for? In the first place they were to be special witnesses for
Jesus, for He calls them His two witnesses. In the second place, they
were to prophesy, to be prophets in the fullest sense, to forecast the
future, to interpret past and present; to work miracles; to assume
control in directing State affairs. Sixth. It is worth your careful
notice to note that they are not constituted witnesses by being sent;
they are sent because they are witnesses. They are not then to be
endowed with miraculous power; "these have power" in the present tense.
These facts, if nicely considered, will at once suggest the persons.

Whoever they are, they must have gone from earth to heaven with their
bodies, two persons who have escaped death, for their death takes place
in Jerusalem. They must have been prophets before they left earth for
heaven the first time. And in the third place, they must at some time
and place have been special witnesses for Christ. In fact, they are two
anointed ones, or, in other words, they are two persons who have been set
apart and prepared for the very visit spoken of in the text.

Daniel, when speaking of them, and the visit spoken of in the text, calls
one "the Ancient of Days;" the other one was "like the Son of Man." He
represents these two persons as sitting in judgment on Anti-Christ, and
the seven horns, or kingdoms. "And the ten horns that were in his head
and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that
horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look
was more stout than his fellows (this is Anti-Christ). I beheld, and the
same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them, until the
Ancient of Days came, and judgment w