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Revelation 11:9
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‘They of the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations, shall see their dead bodies.’ The gospel has been preached to all peoples, to every kindred, tongue, and nation, and some have believed. But many have not, and they are represented as gloating over the bodies of the two witnesses, symbolising the church of Christ. They are debased and scorned. Godlessness, proud and pompous, will wish to maximise its apparent victory when secularism gains the upper hand. ‘And they will not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves’, because they want to talk about the church, but in the most derisive way. They want it to be paraded as something which is now silenced and gone, and to triumph over it.
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Their bodies are left unburied for ‘three days and an half’ – a wonderful note of encouragement. A period of three and a half years has been used to symbolise the gospel age, but now we are talking about Satan’s little season at the very end being three and a half days. So it won’t be long. Once it comes to this final wretched terrible dismal last phase, it won’t last long. How long? We have no idea. It could be three years, ten years. Ten years may be too long for 2 Thessalonians and the rise of antichrist. The coming of Christ seems to be portrayed there as very short, but the symbolism is a very small period by comparison with the symbol of three and a half years.
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