Some are really hip on trying to make something what it is not, and scripture shows to us that the Lord, when He means many, two or three, or just two, He means what He says without the convolutions of false associations in order to allegorize scripture into saying something that it does not say:
1 Timothy 5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
2 Timothy 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Hebrews 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Revelation 11:3 And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
I prefer to leave the practice of allegorizing scripture into whatever subjective meaning the speaker wishes, pointing at seemingly realistic parallels as if there is no wiggle room to say that those parallels MAY actually have some other meaning than what the speaker thinks...that kind of tactic I leave to the Vatican and all its historic antics in trying to make scripture say what it clearly does not.
The thought that millions of believers worldwide will allegedly head down to their local farmers COOP to acquire sackcloth to wear for three and a half years...come on!
MM