Trust These Witnesses!
"These are the two olive trees
and the two lampstands standing
before the God of the earth."
Revelation 11: 4
Beginning with the classic TV series featuring
fictional defense attorney Perry Mason, there
has been no shortage of courtroom dramas.
A character witness is someone called to establish
the believability of a defendant. But often opposing
attorneys call witnesses to discredit the reputation
of that character witness, hoping to make their
testimony unreliable, unbelievable,
or irrelevant.
If character witnesses can't be trusted, neither
can their testimony. God will call two witnesses
“to the stand” during the Tribulation to testify
for Him—and their character will be beyond
reproach.
Moses and Elijah will return to the prophetic
stage and bear witness to God’s message
of
judgment on earth. They're as life-giving as
an olive tree and light-giving as a lampstand.
The Bible is filled with witnesses to the
words and works of God—witnesses who
have never been proved wrong, witnesses
you can trust.
"Scripture is not only
human witness to God, it
is
also divine self-testimony."
J. I. Packer