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No Rain

At Rev. 11:5-6 we read of the two witnesses (Rev. 11:3);

"5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. 6 These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire."

According to the "Revelation Climax" book 2006 printing, pages 165-166 shown below, 

those trying to harm the two witnesses, are interpreted as other religious organizations claiming to be Christian (termed by Watchtower as "Christendom").

The "fire from heaven" is claimed to be a 4-page Watchtower publication called "Kingdom News" along with other publications which would "expose Christendom's spiritually defunct condition". The drought caused by a lack of rain is interpreted to mean that the Jehovah's Witness organization exposes the "spiritual drought" of those other churches, meaning, a lack of spiritual waters.

 

Although some scriptures are offered to support the role of Moses and Elijah, fulfilled by the two witnesses; none of the scriptures provide the exact interpretations offered...

Specifically,

- that those seeking to harm the two witnesses are the churches of Christendom

- that the fire from heaven consists of Watchtower publications, notably "Kingdom News"

- that heaven being shut and the lack of rain, is the Watchtower's unveiling of a lack of spiritual waters available in other religions.

What I desire to publish in this post, is what the scriptures reveal as to the interpretation of Rev. 11:6 as I ask you to focus your attention on that verse's phrases, "These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls during the days of their prophesying".

As readers of this blog know, I always strive to offer scriptures for interpretation. The source of interpretative doctrine belongs to God (Gen. 40:8). This is the example of Jesus (John 12:49) and he should be our guide (John 16:13; 8:47).
So, lets take a tour of scripture to see what God's Word has to say about heaven being shut up, so that no rain falls. 

(Italicized and bold words are the scripture)(Words in brackets are mine)

Deut. 11:17 "Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you." (God promised the good land to His own people)

1Kings 8:35 "

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your (God's) people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place (God's temple) and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them..."

2Chron.7: "11 When Solomon had finished the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the Lord and in his own palace, 12 the Lord appeared to him at night and said:

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

13 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (remember Mal. 4:2)

What we learn from God's Word...

(Rom. 3:4; Matt. 15:9; 

1Cor. 1:25)

...is that when the heaven is shut so that no rain falls, it is because God's own people are being disciplined by God. Such discipline arrives due to their wickedness.

Please consider additional scriptures regarding God's own interpretation of His own prophecies:

Isa. 5:1-2,3-4,5-6,7 ; Jer. 3:1,2,3 ; Eze. 22:18,23-24,25-26,27-28 ; Zech. 14:17 ; James 5:17; Mal. 4:5; Ex. 9:33; Rev. 11:6

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What does it mean that heaven is shut, or opened?
Heaven is the source of God's gifts 

(James 1:17; John 4:10;

1Cor. 14:1,12,37; 12:4; 1:7; 2:10; Mal. 3:10). 

When heaven is opened, spiritual gifts of divine wisdom and understanding are offered to the humble and righteous (Heb. 6:4). This happened to the apostle John when he was graced with the scroll of Revelation (Rev. 4:1; 1:19). The two witnesses also have heaven opened to them (Rev. 11:12) as did Stephen (Acts 7:56).

Eze. 1:1; Matt. 3:16; Isa. 11:2

When the heavens are shut, access to divine spirit and truth is blocked.

We are told at Rev. 3:7-8...

"These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name."

Jesus has the power to open the minds of the faithful to heavenly truth (Luke 24:45; Col. 2:2-3). 
Jesus spoke of this ability to bestow wisdom, 

at Matthew chapter 13:

"11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;

    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;

    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;

    they hardly hear with their ears,

    and they have closed their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

    hear with their ears,

    understand with their hearts

and turn (repent), and I would heal* them.’ 

(*again, Mal. 4:2; 

2Pet. 1:19; Rev. 22:16)

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 

35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:

“I will open my mouth in parables,

    I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”

The "hidden" sacred secrets are opened by Jesus, who holds the authority and power over those symbolic keys. He can open perception of divine secrets (John 1:51; 3:34-35; Col. 2:2-3). 

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As we can see from scripture, the symbolic opening of heaven is associated with symbolic rain.

Deut. 28:12;  Ps. 78:23;  Mal. 3:10

At Isaiah 45:8, we learn more about the meaning of rain...

  “Rain down, you heavens, from above, And let the skies pour down righteousness; Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, And let righteousness spring up together. I, the Lord, have created it."

So, just as we see the sky, clouds, and rain are all associated with one another in a literal way;

being blessed and granted to have divine wisdom is associated with and even vital for, having righteousness and salvation. 

Our eternal life depends upon our salvation, through divine wisdom (John 17:3,17). That wisdom and spirit, are found in God's Word (Prov. 2:6; Ps. 119:105,130; James 1:5; Eph. 6:17; Heb. 4:12). Holy Spirit is the source of these things. Spirit is found... not in teaching sourced with men, but in the teachings of Jesus Christ (John 6:63).

If God's own wicked people repentantly return to Him, He can change the thirsty ground of the heart (Matt. 5:6; Isa. 55:1-3; Rev. 22:17).

Isa. 35:

"6 Then the lame shall leap like a deer,

And the tongue of the dumb sing.

For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,

And streams in the desert.

7 The parched ground shall become a pool,

And the thirsty land springs of water;

In the habitation of jackals, where each lay,

There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

8 A highway shall be there, and a road,

And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.

The unclean shall not pass over it,

But it shall be for others.

Whoever walks the road, although a fool,

Shall not go astray.

9 No lion shall be there,

Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it;

It shall not be found there.

But the redeemed shall walk there,

10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return,

And come to Zion with singing,

With everlasting joy on their heads.

They shall obtain joy and gladness,

And sorrow and sighing shall flee away."

 

Rev. 11:6 is telling us, that within the scenario of Revelation,

it is not "Christendom" that gets exposed for a lack of holy spirit, righteousness, and teachings of salvation. It is God's own people, in the time of the end.

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Orion and Pleiades

 

In the quoted scriptures below, I have made some additional thoughts in parenthesis, derived directly from the Hebrew interlinear.

Job 9:"8 He alone spreads out the heavens (Isa. 40:22; 42:5; 44:24; 66:1),

And treads on the waves of the sea; (Isa. 57:20; Job 38:8-9,10-11; Ps. 65:7; James 4:6; Matt. 14:22-23,24-25,26-27; Mark 4:35-39) (Ps. 2:1-3,4-5; Rev. 11:18; Jer. 25:31; Isa. 24:21-22)

9 He made the 

   Bear [lit. Osh (save)], 

   Orion [Kesel (A deep trust and confidence that inspires hope and resilience, 

                          even in the face of uncertainty)]

   and the Pleiades [Kimah (cluster of stars/known as the 7 sisters) (Rev. 17:5,9)

And the chambers <(secret source) of the south" (Job 37:9; Isa. 21:1,2-3)

Note: the "whirlwind" of the South is the driving spirit and connects to "chambers" (Job 9:9 above).

Job 38: "4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its measurements?

Surely you know!

Or who stretched the measuring line upon it? (Zech. 2:1-2; 1:16; Isa. 28:17; Rev. 11:1; 21:15)

6 To what were its foundations fastened?

Or who laid its cornerstone, (Rev. 21:14; Eph. 2:20-22; Matt.7:24-25)

7 When the morning stars sang together, (Phil. 2:15; Dan. 12:3) 

    (Jude 1:13; Rev. 8:10-11; 12:4; Matt. 24:29; Isa. 13:10

And all the sons of God shouted for joy? (Gal. 3:26; John 1:12-13)

30 The waters harden like stone (and hide themselves),

And the surface (opening/door) of the abyss is frozen [Imprisoned/locked].

31 “Can you bind the (sweet influences/luxuries) of the Pleiades [seven stars/daughters]?,

Or (attractions of Orion, are you unloosing?) loose the belt of Orion? (Eph. 6:14; Isa. 11:1-3,4-5; Dan. 10:4-6,14)

32 Can you bring out Mazzaroth (12 constellations) in its season? (Acts 1:7) Or can you guide [female Bear with sons that need divine guidance]

the Great Bear with its cubs?

33 Do you know the ordinances (statutes) of the heavens?

Can you set their dominion over the earth?"

Amos 5: 

"1 Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:

 2 The virgin of Israel has fallen;

She will rise no more.

She lies forsaken (abandoned) on her land;

There is no one to raise her up.

 3 For thus says the Lord God:

“The city that goes out by a thousand

Shall have a hundred left,

And that which goes out by a hundred

Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

 4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:

“Seek Me and live;

 5 But do not seek Bethel (house of God),

Nor enter Gilgal (removed),

Nor pass over to Beersheba (well of 7/well of the oath);

For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity (deported),

And Bethel shall come to nothing (come to lawlessness).

 6 Seek the Lord and live,

Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,

And devour it,

With no one to quench it in Bethel—

 7 You who turn to wormwood,

And lay justice and righteousness to rest in the earth!”

 8 He made the Pleiades and Orion;

He turns the shadow of death into morning

And makes the day dark as night;

He calls for the waters of the sea

And pours them out on the face of the earth;

(Rev. 20:13; 2 Pet. 3:10)

The Lord is His name.

 9 He [flashes forth destruction] rains ruin upon the strong (gladness over devastation),

So that fury comes upon the fortress."

In the verses above we learn some things about the star groups, Orion and Pleiades.

It is also helpful to look at the context of their mention.

In the context of Job 9:8-9 we see God's Word makes a contrast between the heavens of His dwelling, and the Sea which symbolizes the realm of darkness and evil, and those who belong to that realm. Also mentioned is the chamber of the South. A chamber is usually a private, inner room (Matt. 24:26).

At Job 38:30-31, The luxuries of Pleiades seem associated with the realm of deception and being locked there. It speaks of Orion's supportive warrior's belt being set fast and firm, unmovable by man (Eph. 6:14; 1Cor. 15:58).

Job 38:32-33 make reference to the seasons and timing when various star clusters are seen in the sky. The Great Bear and her sons are mentioned as receiving guidance that cannot come from men. The very next verse mentions the ordinances of heaven, which are rules of guidance. God's statutes have dominion over the earth, from the heavens.

Amos 5:1-3 speaks of the desolation of the house of Israel, and the small number of the remnant.

Amos 5:4-7 shows us the reason for this sweeping desolation. The cities which the populace depend upon are in moral ruin. Only God can be a source of salvation. He warns against turning away from Him. It is made clear, that the house of God (Bethel) who rely on wormwood, cause justice and righteousness to perish.

Amos 5:8 makes contrasts. 

Orion and Pleiades are first compared... then the work of God to turn light into dark, and dark into light 

(Luke 8:18; Isa. 59:10-11; Matt. 6:22-23; James 1:5; Rev. 2:7; 22:17). 

Then God takes the waters of the dark sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth. All that it contains is then seen and judged. The weak and humble are raised up and the proud and prominent are brought low.

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