** My Two Witnesses **

And I will give to My two witnesses,
and they shall prophesy
a thousand two hundred and sixty days,
clothed in sackcloth.
(Revelation 11:3)

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"And I will give My two witnesses,"
signifies those who confess and acknowledge in heart
that the Lord is the God of heaven and the earth,
and that His Human is Divine,
and who are conjoined to Him
by a life according to the precepts of the Decalogue.
"And they shall prophesy
a thousand two hundred and sixty days,"
signifies that these two articles,
the acknowledgment of the Lord,
and a life according
to the commandments of the Decalogue,
which are the two essentials of the New Church,
are to be taught until the end and the beginning.
"Clothed in sack cloth,"
signifies mourning in the meantime
on account of the non-reception of truth.