The Two Witnesses

Full Title:  The Locusts, The Euphratean Horses and The Two Witnesses

Soft Cover, 146 pgs.

This work is not so relevant to today's reader, except perhaps as historical interest. Following the Reformation there were some adherents to the view that the book of Revelation had already been fulfilled, and that the Kingdom of Christ had already come. Some teachers went to great lengths attempting to match historical events to scenes in Revelation, such as those mentioned in this book's title. For example the locusts loosed at the fifth trumpet in Rev. 9 were said to symbolize the Turkish and Moslem invasions of the Holy Land and Europe in the 7th and 8th centuries, rather than literal demonic locusts yet to come, having supernatural powers. 

Robert Govett, in a most detailed way, refutes the attempts of two such "preterist" teachers he names as Dr. Elliot (most likely E.B. Elliot 1793-1875) and Dr. Keith (most likely Alexander Keith (1792-1886). So the book is not so much about the Two Witnesses in Rev. 11 as it is about how not to try to identify them as historical figures. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. The Locusts
   1. The Revelation not a Book of Symbols
   2. Its confounding of things that differ
   3. Denial of the Miraculous
   4. Our of Harmony with the Rest of Scripture
2. The Euphratean Horsemen
   1. Sketch of the History
   2. The Turks Locusts
   3. The Imprisoned Angels
   4. Four Leaders
   5. Failures in Chronology
   6. The Third of Men
   7. Not Found In Constantinople
   8. Slavery Not Slaughter
3. The Two Witnesses
   1. Mr. E.'s explanation of Revelation 10
   2. The Witnesses Future
   3. The Witnesses Two Individuals
   4. Their Prophesying
   5. Their Acts Miraculous
   6. Dilemmas
   7. The Destruction Immediate and Personal
   8. The Testimony Complete Ere the Witnesses Are Slain
   9. Reasons to the Contrary Examined
   10. Their Slaughter Literal
   11. The Corpses Lying Unburied
   12. The Seven Dutch Provinces Emancipated
   13. The Remnant Who Give Glory
   14. Parallelisms Between the Two Witnesses and our Lord