Could Enoch be one of the Two Witnesses?

Out of the Dual Plan - "The Two Witnesses of Jesus"

SEE: The Great Babylonian Kingdom OUT OF THE DUAL PLAN

The cherubim were "beaten out of one piece" of gold. Thus they were originally one united body. It was God's command that they should be made in this manner, and the real meaning or significance of this typical construction will undoubtedly have its corresponding place in the development of the corresponding objects of the living sanctuary.

As the two witnesses are revealed to John in connection with the sanctuary, it is evident that they are closely connected with that sanctuary and that they will be a power within it. As golden pipes through which the golden oil flows into the vessels which belong to the lamps, will not they deliver the oil that Christ referred to, of which the wise virgins on their way to meet the Bridegroom are the recipients? Their spiritual life-fluid will continue to flow as a stream of light in the dark hours of night in order to guide the wise virgins through the door that is finally shut against the seducers and the seduced. That door is opened by the Spirit of prophecy and leads into the most holy apartment of the sanctuary. All persons who do not become sanctified by the influence of the Spirit of truth and who do not become separated from the iniquities that have defiled them in Babylon, are consequently shut out; the wise virgins are first gathered inside of that sanctifying institution and then the door is shut.

Many curious ideas prevail concerning these two witnesses. Nearly every sect has its own theory about them. Some look for Enoch and Elijah of the Old Testament to come back to earth; some claim that the Old and New Testaments constitute these witnesses; others, that they are the Word of God and the Spirit. But, all such theories vanish as soon as a thorough investigation of the subject is made. The Word and the Spirit constitute God's light, but the witnesses only candlesticks.

The teaching of the S. D. Adventists, that the two witnesses are the Old and New Testaments which were killed (destroyed) in the French revolution in 1793-4, and which ascended to heaven in that new editions of the Bible were printed, is too silly to be believed by any thinking being. It is a link in the mystery-chain of their prophetess. For fear that those two living beings would eventually expose their assumed religious position, they have done like the man who boxed up the subject he murdered and sent it to a foreign country.

2. The commission of the two witnesses. "These have author­ity to shut heaven, so that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy." They are invested with the power of Elijah. "And they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they choose." They are also invested with the power of Moses. Their commission, therefore, is to lead the people out of Babylon and back to Jehovah. Nothing less than the three and one-half years of drought, reflected. in Palestine during the time of Elijah, and the plagues brought forth in Egypt by Moses, will convince the people that they have been and are the servants of Baal and his kingdom. The lords of Babylon depend as much on their service as did the lords of Egypt; hence, nothing less than depressive means, threatening their very lives, will induce them to let the people go and serve the God of heaven.

Were it not for the supernatural power these two beings are invested with in order to defend themselves against the red dragon, the Babylonians would soon exterminate them. But, like the fire-vomiting dragon, they also send forth fire out of their mouths in defence of their lives and their mission.