Is Moses and Elijah coming back during the great tribulation?

This well oiled myth that it is because Moses and Elijah didn't die that they will be coming back to experience death in the Tribulation, is without any biblical justification. Moreover, the vaunted words of Sir Josephus as justification is as a weight tied around the necks of the obstinate men-pleasers.

Romans 3:4

• "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged."

The fact is, if Moses didn’t die, then the word of man is true and the word of God a lie that should not ever to be trusted. Because you can't have it both ways.

Deuteronomy 34:5-6

• "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
• And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."

Mind you, these are the alleged "literalists" who are saying He didn't really die, proving yet again that in their system it is only to be taken literally when it suits their theology. Furthermore, if Moses didn't die there, then the Lord burried a living man in a sepulchre in the land of Moab. And if He didn't, then God is telling us a lie here. And we who are Spiritual know that this cannot be true.

Titus 1:2

• "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"

But you see, these are the predicaments that all false teachings, be they Premillennial, Postmillennial, or Praeterist, get themselves into when they try to privately interpret God's word to fit into their predetermined boxes. If we let the scripture be it's own commentary on itself, then the truth will always shine through.

John 4:24

• "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

Elijah and Moses are but men, like Isaac, Jacob, and Abraham. It's true that the scripture says that Elijah must come before Christ, but He did come according to God's defining of the prophecy. Christ Himself unambiguously stated that Elijah did return in John the Baptist, but because the people of his day (like the Premillennialists of today) looked for a literal/physical return of the man Himself, they did not recognize him as the fulfillment of that prophecy. That's the "whole point" that all the literalists are missing concerning prophecy. Christ told the Apostles (and us) their mistake, that we not fall into the same snare, and yet people continue on in those very same mistake as if they cannot even hear what He is saying. e.g.:

Matthew 17:11-12

• "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
• But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them."

i.e., likewise as they did not recognize John as Prophesied Elias (Elijah), so they will not "recognize" Jesus as the prophesied Messiah who would come to deliver Israel, and do to Him the same as they did to John.People just are not listening Spiritually.

These two witnesses are not literally Moses and Elijah anymore than John the Baptist was literally Elijah. But "like" John the baptist, they come in the Spirit and power of Moses and Eliah. In the Spiritand power of the "Law" and the "Prophets." Because they are endowed with the power of the Spirit of God.

2nd Kings 2:14-15

• "And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
• And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him."

The Spirit of Elijah is the Spirit of God. It would behoove men to start listening to God spiritually. Because Like Elisha came in the Spirit of Elijah by coming in the power and Spirit of God, so John the Baptist did also. In fact, this is plainly illustrated in God's prophecy of John's birth. Consider wisely:

Luke 1:16-17

• "And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
• And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

John came before Christ (as prophecied) not as literally Elijah, but in the Spirit and Power that Elijah came in. i.e., it wasn't Elijah's power, it was the Spirit of God in him. Thus it's not necessary for Elijah to literally come back, just that John came in the same Spirit that Elijah had, to do the works of God.

Likewise, the two witnesses come in the Spirit and Power of Moses (the law) and Elijah (the prophets) and their works are the works of the Spirit of God. These things are Spiritually discerned.

Acts 1:8

• "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

Revelation 11:3

• "And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."

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