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These are the two olive trees and the two menorot standing before the Adon kol ha’aretz. [TEHILLIM 52:8; YIRMEYAH 11:16; ZECHARYAH 4:3,11,14]

And if anyone wants to harm them, eish (fire) comes out of their mouth and destroys their oyevim (enemies); and if anyone wants to harm them, it is necessary for him to be killed like this. [SHMUEL BAIS 22:9; MELACHIM BAIS 1:10; YIRMEYAH 5:14; BAMIDBAR 16:29,35]

These have the samchut (authority) to shut Shomayim, that no geshem (rain) may fall during the days of their nevu’ah (prophecy). And samchut (authority) they have over the waters to turn them into dahm and to strike ha’aretz with makkot (plagues) of every kind, as often as they want. [SHEMOT 7:17,19 [MELACHIM ALEF 17:1]

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They are “the two olive trees”(A) and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”[a](B) If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies.(C) This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.(D) They have power to shut up the heavens(E) so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying;(F) and they have power to turn the waters into blood(G) and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:4 See Zech. 4:3,11,14.