Cipher 72. Forty-two Months for Two Witnesses (Rev 11:1-12)
1. WHO? (11:1) John wrote: there was given me a reed like unto a rod.
2. WHY? (11:1) To measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
3. HOW to measure? (11:2) And the court, which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not;
4. WHAT for? (11:2) For it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot,
5. WHEN? (11:2-3) forty and two months. And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
6. WHERE are the witnesses? (11:4) These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before Lord of the earth.
7. WHICH way witnesses? (11:7-12) And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them. And they went up into heaven in the cloud.
Commentary: The Forty-two months that were trampled on by the nations are the same calculated Forty-two months that the two witnesses prophesied in their ministry. Forty-two months are the 77 77 77 generations of the genealogy of the Son of Man. See Cipher 31. And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days = 1260 days / 30 days = 42-month ministry on earth by two witnesses. It is interpreted that the Son of Man is the witness from earth, and the Son of God is the witness from heaven, and that the court outside of the temple represents the Gentiles, who did not worship in the temple of Israel. It is the Gentiles then, that tread under foot the 42-month ministry and genealogy of the Son of Man, who taught the cross.