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B03979	Apocalyptical mysteries, touching the two witnesses, the seven vials, and the two kingdoms, to wit, of Christ, and of Antichrist, expounded. Wherein is contained some things necessary for the saints in this present generation to know ... By H.K. a servant of Jesus Christ.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1667 (1667)	Wing K704; ESTC R225382	40,331	114

to death John 11.47 to 53. And KILL them vers 7. The killing of the two Witnesses doth not signifie a Corporal death only nor principally for such a killing doth not agree with this Prophesie but it is rather a Metaphorical Expression which signifies a two-fold Death partly Civil whereby the Witnesses shall be deprived of their civil Liberties and the Exercise of their Religion their Estates confiscated their Persons confined Imprisoned Banished and some of their Lives or all their livelyhood taken away by the tyrannical Power of the Beast and partly yea principally Spiritual whereby the Witnesses shall be deprived of that Zeal Vigor and Courage which with all boldness they had formerly manifested in bearing their Testimouy openly for Christ his Kingdom his Church his Worship and his Government against the Antichristian Beast his Kingdom Church Worship and Government The darkness and blackness of the DAY of the Witnesses death will principally consist in their being deprived of that Spirit of Life that sometimes they had received from God and had formerly exercised in bearing their Testimony which Spirit of Life the Witnesses lose by cooling in their Spiritual affections unto Christ and by their sinning against the LORD for usually when Ministers or Members of Churches fall from their first Love they fall in with the Apostacy of the time and so lose that life and courage which they formerly had and manifested with great boldnesse for Christ against Antichrist This Spiritual kind of death is most agreeable unto their Resurrection that is effected by that Spirit of Life from God which vers 11. after three dayes and an half shall enter into them Now such as is the Resurrection of the Witnesses such is their death But their Resurrection is Spiritual for vers 11. the Spirit of Life from God entred into them therefore their death is Spiritual viz A depravation of that Spirit of Life that is to say the loss of that courage boldness zeal vigor and life which they formerly had and manifested in their Testimony for Christ against the Beast This kind of death is also most agreeable unto the Witnesses lying dead after they were killed in respect both of the place which is Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt ver 8. and of the time when they lay unburied which is Prophetically said to be three dayes and an half vers 9. Touching the fourth Particular viz. What is the Street of the great City in which their dead Bodies lie The Answer unto this Particular is Mysteriously given in the 8 9. verses of this Chapter And their dead Bodies shall lie in the street of the great City c. The great City is that mentioned chap. 17.8 Which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth to wit the WOMAN that sits upon a Scarlet-coloured BEAST chap. 17.3 which is the great WHORE chap. 17.1 whose Name is Mystery BABYLON the Mother of HARLOTS chap. 17.5 viz. the whole Antichristian Kingdom of the Beast all Mystical Babylon The Street of the great City is some noted Street as a Market-Street or some eminent Street as Cheap-side or some open Street or place as Smithfield within or without the great City under the Dominion and Government thereof By this Street we are to understand some ●minent Part of Mystical Babylon and Kingdom of the Beast viz. some of the ten Kingdoms which appertain unto the Dominion of the Beast and not his whole Kingdom ●or the whole City It is not said in the Streets of the great City but in the Street to wit the most eminent Kingdom for the Testimony of Jesus Christ even that Nation where the Witnesses have most eminently born their Testimony against Antichrist The place being spoken of by way of eminency must be understood either in relation ●o the Witnesses or in respect unto the Beast that kills them or to both Now take either of these or both together and it signifies not the whole Witnesses nor the whole Kingdom of Babylon but a part thereof Not the whole Kingdom of Babylon because ●pon the rising and ascending of the Witnesses there is but a part of the Kingdom of Babylon falls And the tenth part of the City fell vers 13. which is that part here meant by this Street Nor all the VVitnesses of Christ in all the WORLD no nor in all the Kingdoms of Babylon because there are some Witnesses remain alive when these two are killed who shall call upon them to come up to them when the Spirit of Life from the Lord doth again enter into them and cause them to stand upon their feet vers 12 And they heard a great Voice from Heaven saying unto them Come up hither Which Voice from Heaven is the call of those Angels who have the seven last Plagues and come out of the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Heaven when i● is opened to come up to Mount Zion to them where they and other Saints stan● with the Lamb and to see the Judgement of the great WHORE which will appe● by comparing chap. 11.12 19.14.1 5● 15.1 2 5 6.17.1 And the Temple o● God was opened in Heaven and there were voyces chap. 11.19 And the seven Angels came out of the Temple in Heaven chap. 16.6 And one of the seven Angels which had the seven Vials said Come up hither and I will shew thee the judgment of the great Whore c. As touching the fifth Particular viz. What time is to be understood by the three days and an half vers 9. The knowledge of the time when the Witnesses shall be killed and rise again is very desirable unto the Saints in this GENERATION many godly and learned Men have laboured studiously in searching out this time and have communicated their understanding about this Matter whose labours have been profitable unto the Lords people and unto me also who having read their Opinions about the ending time of the Witnesses Sackcloath-condition and of the troubles of the Lords People I have been much comforted by several precious Observations which they have made touching this matter But not being fully satisfied with their Determination of the period of that ending time I have also addicted my self to search the holy Scriptures touching such Prophetical Numbers as seem to contain the ending time And I shall take liberty to give my Opinion also and the grounds thereof viz. 1. The three dayes and an half are three years and an half each day for a year according to the prophetical Account of Mystical dayes Numb 14.34 and Ezek. 4.5 6. 2. The three dayes and an half are those three years and an half which do immediately succeed the killing or death of the Witnesses for after they are killed their dead Bodies are seen three dayes and an half chap. 11.9 and they do immediately preceed their Resurrection for after three dayes and an half the Spirit of Life from God doth enter into the Witnesses and they stand upon their feet chap. 11.11 So then The three

to note that the Church of God on Earth at this time of the pouring out of the seven Vials is not so glorious nor so fixed as the Temple was in Solomons time but rather doth resemble the Tabernacle of the Congregation of the LORD which had been in the Wilderness and was come into the promised Land in which Tabernacle of the Congregation of Israel there was a signal Testimony of the presence of God Num. 9.15 16. where was also the Ark of his Covenant and wherein was the Service of God performed and all his holy Sacrifices offered 1 Chron. 16.17 37 40. And so when this Temple of the Tabernacle was opened Rev. 11.19 There was see● in his Temple the Ark of his Covenant and those who had washed their Robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb that did serve him day and night in his Temple chap. 7.14 15. The seven Angels which had command to pour out the Vials of the wrath of God are them same seven who had the seven last Plagues chap. 15.1 the same seven Angels came out of the Temple vers 6. and the same seven Angels had given unto them seven golden Vials full of the wrath of God vers 7. Seven is a Prophetical Number signifying both variety of Instruments and perfection of the Judgements of God in this Prophesie as the seven Trumpets chap. 8.1 6 3. Some denouncing and others executing these last Plagues These Angels are cloathed with pure and white Linnen and girded with golden Girdles chap. 15.6 Their Cloathing declares some of them to be the Priests of God for so were the Priests of the Temple cloathed Levit. 6.10 16.4 1 Sam. 2.18 And this was the Lords Institution Exod. 39.27 28 29. Their being girded with golden Girdles shews that others of them are the Magistrates of the LORD into whose hand God will commit the Government of the Kingdom of Christ Isa 22.21 22 23. The Ministers of the Churches are called Angels chap. 1.20 The Angels of the seven Churches And Kings also are compared unto Angels 1 Sam. 29.9 2 Sam. 14.7 As an Angel of God so is my Lord the King The whole Description testifies these Angels to be Kings and Priests unto God whom Christ hath made such Rev. 5.9 10. who was so cloathed and girded himself chap. 1.13 And in the midst of the seven Can●lesticks was one like unto the Son of Man ●loathed with a Garment down to the foot and ●irt about the Paps with a golden Girdle A Description of our Lord Jesus Christ as ●riest and King in his Church Objection But how can the pouring out 〈◊〉 the Vials of the Plagues of Almighty God full of his great wrath be applyed unto the Ministers of the Gospel who an to preach the most precious sweet sou● saving Truths of Jesus Christ especiall considering that by these Vials and Plague● are meant the real and external Judgment and Plagues which God will have execute● by those Angels upon the Whore as appears chap. 18.8 Therefore shall her Plagues co●● in one day Death Famine c. Answer The Ministers of the Gospe● may be said to pour out the Vials of God great wrath even his real and materi● Plagues and most righteous Judgments up on the great City Babylon as the Prophe● of old are said to root out and pull dow● and to destroy and to throw down Jer. 〈◊〉 10 16. and to take the Wine-Cup of th● Lords fury at his hand and to make a● Nations to whom God sends them to drin● of it Jer. 25.15 16 17 28. A● this they did by pronouncing those Judgements of God against them which the Lo●● commanded them Jer. 1.16 Even 〈◊〉 the Ministers of the Gospel pour out th● Vials of the wrath of God real Plague● upon Mystical Babylon by pronounci● those last Plagues of the wrath of God ●gainst her 3. These Angels come out of the Te●ple chap. 15.6 after it was opened This doth declare them to be the raised Witnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Temple was not opened in the Vision unto John un●il the slain Witnesses were risen and had ●scended the Throne chap. 11.7 11 15 17 19. So their coming out of the Tem●le signifies their Saint-ship and that these Angels are fellow Citizens with the Saints ●nd of the Houshold of God built upon the ●oundation of the Apostles and Prophets Je●us Christ himself being the chief Corner Stone in whom all the Building fitly framed ●ogether groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord Eph. 2.19 22. And who are more fit to declare the ●engeance of the Lord even the vengeance ●f his Temple Jer. 50.28 then the Mi●isters of God in Zion Or who are more ●eet to execute the Righteous Judgments ●f God upon Babylon then those Magistrates ●nto whose hand the LORD will commit ●he Government of Christs Kingdom here ●n Earth called The People of the Saints ●f the most High Dan. 7.27 whom the ●ORD of Hosts will make his Battle Ax ●nd Weapons of War and with whom he ●ill break in pieces the Nations and de●●oy Kingdoms and render unto Babylon all the evil that she hath done in Zion Jer. 51.20 24. Lest it might be dubious how the Saint or true Worshippers in the Churches Ministers or Magistrates should execute th● fierceness of Gods wrath upon Babylon an● upon the Kingdom of the Beast consider th● some of the Angels which came out of th● Temple may be also the holy Angels of God who are said to be about the Throne in th● Temple chap. 5.11 worshipping God wit● the four living Creatures and twenty for Elders chap. 7.11 and who are said to a●● company the Saints that were cloathe● with white Robes and Palmes in the● hands chap. 7.9 10 15. an Emble● of the victory they had gotten over the Be●● and his Image chap. 15.2 For the ho● Angels of God are present in the Asse●blies of the Saints 1 Cor. 11.10 1 Pe● 1.12 1 Tim. 5.21 And they are se● forth to minister for them and therefor● may be said also to come out of the Te●ple as well as the Saints to execute th● righteous Judgements of God upon Babylon chap. 18.1 2. And Christ also w●● is the Angel of the Covenant By the Earth here we are to understan● the earthly State of Babylon as it is contr● distinguished from the Heavenly State of Zion which is the true Church of God Rev. 9.1 I saw a Star fall from Heaven to the Earth which was the visible Apostacy of the Clergy from the Heavenly State of the True Church of God for soundness of Doctrine purity of Worship and power of Discipline to an earthly State of a false Church with respect unto corrupt Doctrine superstitious Worship and tyrannical Discipline after the Inventions and precepts of Men. And as the Earth Gen. 1.2 is a genetal ●earm which comprehended the Land the Seas the Firmament with the Sun Moon and Stars the Air and all Men Beasts

years and an half are the time of the interval between the Death and the Resurrection of the two Witnesses 3. The three dayes or years and an half is the ending-time of the Witnesses 1260. dayes or years and of the Beasts 42. months or 1260. years For the clear demonstration of this third Particular let i● be considered First That the time when the Beast kills the Witnesses is towards the end of the 1260. dayes or years of their Prophesying chap. 11.7 When they are about to finish their Testimony and therefore the Witnesses are killed before the time of their 1260● dayes or years be ended to wit three dayes or years and an half before Secondly The killing of the Witnesses and the rejoycing over their dead bodies are th● last Acts of the Beast's Tyrannical Power and of the Whores Triumphing Joy and therefore must be near the ending-time of the Beast's 42. months and also of the 42. months wherein the Gentiles who are the Idolatrous worshippers of the Beast tread the holy City that is the Church of God under their feet That the killing of the Witnesses is the last Act of the Beast's tyrannical-Power appears plainly for as soon as the Witnesses rise Babylon begins to fall chap. 11.11 13. And they stood upon their feet and the same hour the tenth part of the City fell That the rejoycing over their dead Bodies is the last Act of the Whores triumphing-Joy appears plainly for as soon as her Joy and Rejoycing is over the day and hour of her Judgement came chap. 17.7 8 10. For she saith in her heart I sit as a Queen and am no Widow and shall see no sorrow therefore shall her Plagues come in one day c. The things that the Saints in this GENERATION ought to know touching the time of the Witnesses lying dead Are 1. That the time of the END or the ending-time of the Witnesses prophesying in Sackcloth of the Beast's tyrannical POWER of the holy City her being troden under foot of the Gentiles and of the Womans being in her Wilderness-condition is near at hand for the finishing Testimony is begun to wit the Gospel of the Kingdom of our LORD Jesus Christ which is a certain fore-runner of the ending-time of this WORLD Mat. 24.14 Rev. 11.7 And when they were about to finish this Testimony That is when they began to preach the Gospel or glad tydings of the Kingdom the Beast killed them which is the last Act of his tyrannical POWER 2. That although the ending-time be near yet the period thereof will not be certainly known until the last three years and an half be begun and well night expired Dan. 12.4 9. and Hab. 2.3 The Vision is yet for an appointed time at the END it shall speak and not lie though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come 3. That when the ending-time is come and begun before it be expired there shall such remarkable and wonderful things come to pass as are foretold in the Scriptures whereby the wise shall understand and certainly know that it is the time of the END viz. First Then will be such tribulation and such a time of trouble as never was before Dan. 12.1 Mat. 24.21 22. Secondly Then will be such an Apostacy among Professors Ministers Prophets and Churches as never was before 2 Tim. 3.1 5. and 2 Thes 2.3 Thirdly Then will begin a very glorious Reformation in the Worship of God by the Spirit of Life from God which Spirit of Life entring into the slain Witnesses will set them upon their feet that is to say will cause them again to stand up for Christ and his Kingdom and against Antichrist and his Kingdom And then will the Temple of God that is to say the Church and Worship of God be opened in Heaven chap. 11.11 10.11 11.19 Which 〈◊〉 the times of the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the Mouth of all his ●oly Prophets since the WORLD began Acts ● 21 Touching the last Particular viz. How be Witnesses shall be raised again and what ●re the effects thereof The Answer unto this Particular is My●ically held forth in the 11 12 13 and ●4 verses of this Chapter First As to the time After three dayes ●●d an half vers 11. by which we are to ●●derstand three years and an half as have before proved that is to say at or before the end of that time for as it was said of our LOKD and Saviour Mark 8 3● After three days he should rise again which he did on the third day 1 Cor. 15.3 4. S● it is likewise said of his Witnesses after three dayes and an half the Spirit of Life from God entred into them and they stood upon their feet according to what was foretold by one of the Lords Prophets Hos 6.2 After two dayes he will revive us in the thir● day he will raise us up and we shall live in h● sight The means of the Witnesses Resurrection is the Spirit of Life from the Lord which entred into them vers 11. viz. that Spirit Life Power Courage Zeal and Boldne●● which the two Witnesses formerly had received from God and had exercised in bearin● their Testimony for the Kingdom of Christ c. and against the Kingdom of Antichrist c. but had lost by falling from their f●● love and by falling in with the lest Apostcy which Spirit of Life from God is again given unto them And they stood upon their feet vers 1● that is to say The Witnesses were raised 〈◊〉 vived ●nd strengthened by the Spirit of Li● from God for as the loss and departure● that Spirit of Life and courage to bear the● Testimony with boldness was their death so the Spirit of Life from God entring into them and renewing their Courage reviveing their Zeal and increasing their Boldness in bearing their Testimony is their Resurrection and that which causeth them to stand upon their feet which effect of the Spirit of Life from God was typed out by the dry Bones of the House of Israel Ezek. 37.5 10 14. O my People I will put my Spirit in you and ye shall live The LORD knows his Servants his Witnesses are not able either to do much or to say much for Christ and his Kingdom c. nor against Antichrist and his Kingdom c. unless they be spirited thereunto and therefore when God had any eminent work or service to do he did not onely raise up Instruments to do it but spirited them accordingly Thus the Spirit of the LORD came upon Othniel Judg. 3.9 10. and upon Gideon Judg. 6.34 and upon Jephthah Judg. 11.29 and upon Sampson Judg. 14.6 19. and 15.14 and upon David 1 Sam. 16.13 And so it will do upon the Lords Witnesses Rev. 11.11 And great fear came upon them Enemies that saw them Secondly The effect of the Witnesses Resurrection or standing upon their feet either concerned themselves vers 12. or their Enemies vers 13.