well since I am not allowed to post anything from the book Great Controversy, you will have to go click on the link I gave you and read it! Scroll down to the last portion of the screen and you will see the very verse you just asked about and a commentary about it.Originally posted by Eliyahu:
As you said 1260 days symbolize the period during which Jesus was preaching the Gospel.
Likewise, 2 witnesses the key Christian believers have trestified for 2,000 years, which is symbolized by 1260 days.
When 2 testaments are caught up to God, their enemies were watching them. What does this mean, then?
How do the remnant glorify God seeing the whole situation ?
In your logic, 2 testaments are taken up, the enemies (like Da Vin Ci Code book) watch them, then many commentaries glorify God?
Sounds like Puppet Drama or Cartoon book story!
I would put the whole thing into my own words but I cant since it is difficult for me to type because of my illness.
Basically after the French Revolution Bible societies were formed and the Bible was allowed all over the world. Christianity was spread..
What this means "symboloically" as far as the two witnesses being "taken up" into the clouds and their enemies beheld them... is that now God took things in His own hands... and He made it where the prophecies of the two witnesses (the Bible) were seen by all.. all over the world. You know, like everybody sees the Moon... all over the world, etc...
the secondary meaning is like when Jesus had done His work, and He was crucified, and was taken up into the clouds and then the Holy Spirit was sent... Kind of like the Bible had "done it's work" that it was supposed to do... and now it was sent universally around to everyone.. Kind of like at the second coming of Christ when He comes out of the clouds and the Bible says "every eye shall see Him"...
Its hard to explain but I hope you get what I am saying...
well the very thing the enmies of the Bible did to try to stamp them out ended up making it to where the knowledge of the Bible was spread all over the place... People began realizing the results of doing away with the Scriptures and trying to "stamp out God" so to speak... the results were terrible... and people started turning to the Scriptures...