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The two witnesses

Rev 11:1–14

11 Then I was given a measuring stick[ref] and told, “Go and measure God’s temple and the altar and the people who are worshipping there, 2 but exclude the outer courtyard. Don’t measure that because it’s been given to the non-Jews, and they’ll tread around the holy city for three and a half years.[ref] 3 Then I’ll give my two witnesses the ability to speak out God’s message for six months, while dressed in mourning garb.

4 Those are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the master of the earth.[ref] 5 If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and burns up their enemies, yes, if anyone wants to harm them then they deserve to be killed. 6 Those witnesses have the power to stop the rain so that it doesn’t rain while they’re speaking out,[ref] and they have power to turn rivers and lakes into blood,[ref] and to damage the earth with every type of disaster just as often as they want.[ref]

7 When the two witnesses have finished speaking out, the creature that comes up from the deep, dark pit[ref] will attack them. It’ll overpower them[ref] and then kill them. 8 Their corpses will lie on the road of the great city, which in spiritual terms is called Sedom[ref] and/or Mitsrayim (Egypt)—where their master was executed by being nailed to a stake.[ref] 9 People from every nation and tribe and language will look at their corpses for three and a half days and will prevent their corpses from being put into a tomb. 10 Those who are living on the earth will be happy about it and celebrate and send gifts to each another because those two prophets had tormented them, 11 but after three and a half days, God’s breath of life will enter into them and they’ll stand up.[ref] The people who see that will be terrified. 12 Then the two witnesses will hear a loud voice from the sky telling them, “Come up here.” Then they’ll go up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watch them go up.[ref] 13 At that same time, there will be a huge earthquake[ref] which will cause a tenth of the city to collapse. That’ll kill 7,000 people and the rest will be terrified and will acknowledge the God of heaven.

14 The second terror has then passed, but the third will be coming soon.

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Collected OET-RV cross-references

Eze 40:3:

3 and he took me there. Then wow, there was a man standing in the city gateway who looked like bronze! He was holding a linen cord and a measuring rod.[ref]

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40:3: Rev 11:1; 21:15.

Zech 2:1-2:

2 Then I looked up, and wow, I saw a man holding a measuring line[fn] 2 and I asked him, “Where are you going?”

“To measure Yerushalem (Jerusalem),” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”

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2:1 The modern equivalent would be a tape measure.

Luk 21:24:

24 They’ll be cut down with swords and taken to many other countries as slaves, then Yerushalem will be overrun by non-Jews until the times given to the non-Jews will be fulfilled.

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Zech 4:3,11-14:

3 and two olive trees by it—one on each side of it.”[ref]

11 “What are these two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?” I asked the messenger.[ref] 12 “And what are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that have golden oil pouring out of them?”

13 Then he answered, “Don’t you know what those are?”

“No, my master,” I replied.

14 Then he said, “Those are the two anointed men[fn] who stand before the master of the whole world.”

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4:14 It’s not clear who this is referring to.


4:3: Rev 11:4.

4:11: Rev 11:4.

1Ki 17:1:

17 One day the prophet Eliyah (Elijah) from the Tishbim in the Gilead region said to Ahav, “As Yisrael’s (Israel’s) god Yahweh lives, the one who I serve, there won’t be any rain or even dew these next years unless I give the command.”[ref]

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17:1: Jam 5:17.

Exo 7:17-19:

17 so Yahweh says, “Now you will know that I am Yahweh because of this: See, I’m about to use my staff to strike the water in the Nile and it will turn to blood[ref] 18 and the fish in the river will die and the river will stink. Then your people will gag to drink the water from the river.” ’

19 “Tell Aharon (Aaron) to take his staff and stretch out his hand over the waters of Mitsrayim (Egypt): over their streams, their canals, and their pools, and over every reservoir of their water, and the water will become blood. Then there’ll be blood in the entire country—even in wooden or stone containers of water.”

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7:17: Rev 16:4.

1Sam 4:8:

8 Oh dear! Who will rescue us from these mighty gods? Those are the gods who struck the Mitsrim (Egyptians) with every plague in the wilderness.

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Dan 7:7:

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7:7 OSHB variant note: רביעיה: (x-qere) ’רְֽבִיעָאָ֡ה’: lemma=7244 n=1.2.1.1 morph=AAofsa id=27MpC רְֽבִיעָאָ֡ה

7:7 OSHB variant note: ב/רגלי/ה: (x-qere) ’בְּ/רַגְלַ֣/הּ’: lemma=b/7271 morph=AR/Ncfsc/Sp3fs id=2786G בְּ/רַגְלַ֣/הּ


7:7: Rev 12:3; 13:1; 17:3.

Rev 13:5-7:

5 The sea creature was given a mouth so it could speak out arrogant and anti-God statements, and it was given authority to act for three and a half years.[ref] 6 So it started speaking out anti-God statements, as well as speaking out against God’s name and his home and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given permission to battle against the believers and to conquer them,[ref] and it was given authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.

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13:5-6: Dan 7:8,25; 11:36.

13:7: Dan 7:21.

17:8:

8 The wild animal that you saw used to be here and isn’t anymore but is about to come up from the abyss.[ref] Then it’s going to destruction, and the ones living on the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life[ref] from the creation of the world will wonder, seeing the creature that used to be here and isn’t anymore but will come back.

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17:8: Dan 7:7; Rev 11:7.

17:8: Psa 69:28.

Dan 7:21:

21 I kept watching, and that horn was waging war with those followers and gaining over them[ref]

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7:21: Rev 13:7.

Isa 1:9-10:

9 If it wasn’t for the fact that Commander-in-chief Yahweh left a few survivors behind,

we would have been wiped out like both Sedom and Amorah (Gomorrah).[ref]


10 Hear what Yahweh has to say, you who are like Sedom’s rulers.

≈ Listen to God’s instructions, you who are like Amorah’s people:

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1:9: Gen 19:24; Rom 9:29.

Jhn 20:25:

25 so the other apprentices told him, “We have seen the master.”

But he replied, “I won’t believe that unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and I can put my finger into the marks and can put my hand into the gash on his side.”

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Eze 37:10:

10 So I prophesied just like I was commanded. Then breath came into them and they came to life. Then they stood on their feet—a very large army.

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2Ki 2:11:

11 Then it had happened while they were walking and talking together. Wow, a chariot of fire and horses of fire drove between the two of them, separating them. Then Eliyah went up to the heavens in the gale.

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Rev 6:12:

12 When the lamb broke the sixth seal, there was a violent earthquake[ref] and the sun went black like black cloth, and the moon which was full, went red like blood.[ref]

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6:12: Rev 11:13; 16:18.

6:12: Isa 13:10; Yoel 2:10,31; 3:15; Mat 24:29; Mrk 13:24-25; Luk 21:25.

16:18:

18 Then there was lightning and thunder and other sounds, and a terrible earthquake, such as had not happened since people had been on the earth. Such a powerful earthquake, so massive![ref]

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16:18: Rev 8:5; 11:13,19.

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