Can you at least, see that Jesus is eluding to the two witnesses in this passage?
Mat 20:21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
Mat 20:22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Mat 20:23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
I think Chuck would has heard some of his ideas were daffy... From his critics, and he is not detoured. Nor will I be.
But thank you anyway. You are helping me more than you realize.
Peace
You have to wait until HE calls you to the table...none of us is "worthy" to sit at his left or his right.
Who are we? We are nothing and we have NOT suffered as many have for THE NAME...
In fact, HE already knows who will suffer for HIS NAME...therefore, those who are seated on thrones to His Left and His Right are those whom HE has already prepared in advance and already foreknows.
We will drink from HIS CUP...for all who are called into the FAITH which is in CHRIST have drunk from HIS CUP...but to sit on the left or right????
How can we even think that we could possibly even know who will suffer like HE suffered for us.
Don't you understand that Paul already eluded to this when he said, that I should attain to a better resurrection?
And you want to suggest that the two witnesses are left and right of CHRIST?
Where is the HOLY SPIRIT and THE FATHER?
Now separate from THE SON?
How is THAT possible?
It isn't.
The spirit is invisible
The Father is SPIRIT
CHRIST is the visible image of the Invisible GOD.
By whose spirit then is CHRIST seated on HIS THRONE?
HIS OWN?
Then where is THE FATHER'S SPIRIT for what you are implying is that there are two HOLY SPIRITS in HEAVEN.
But that is NOT TRUTH...
THE SON said of HIMSELF that HE and the FATHER are ONE.
He who has seen ME has seen THE FATHER
(in fact, HE even sounds exasperated when HE has to explain this to Philip again!)
And if the FATHER is SPIRIT and THE SON is the visible image of THE FATHER made manifest, by whose SPIRIT did CHRIST have authority to show/reveal/declare/manifest/teach THE FATHER?
And now GOD has to resend HIS SPIRIT again?
This overshadows the HOLY SACRIFICE and bypasses CHRIST as if GOD'S FIRST WORK was not sufficient.
IT IS SUFFICIENT...