Two Olive Branches
This stamp had another symbol on it, as the state emblem, and that is the two olive branches. We have the interpretation of the two olive branches in Zechariah 4:11-14 “Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? This is the prophecy that is yet to be fulfilled concerning the return of the two witnesses during the Great Tribulation Period. We have the account of the two olive trees again in Revelation 11:3-12 “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. There is a controversy over who these two witnesses are. Because of the description of the power given to these two witnesses in verse 6, which is the same power that Elijah and Moses used in the Old Testament, and because of the event on Mount of Transfiguration, as recorded in Luke 9:28-36, Moses and Elijah talking to Jesus about his death, I believe that these two men are the two witnesses that we read about in Revelation 11. Nevertheless, the stamp with the symbol of the two olive branches points to the truth that God will send His two witnesses to preach during the last three and one half years of the Great Tribulation Period, just prior to the time that Christ will return to the earth to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. At this point in the fulfillment of the prophecy of the dry bones, we have the skeleton completed, which is the official organization and recognition of Israel as an independent nation of the world.
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What [be these] two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden [oil] out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the
bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead
bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send
gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.”
