Reckon you did not read or you rejected my letter a couple days back.  It did have a lot of information....nearly all you could want to know about these last days.  The answer to your question was at the end.  I can also offer a clue as to how to narrow their arrival to a year and a season (within the Seals framework).

 

Like I said up front....we know how long the 2 witnesses are here, 42 months.....same as times, time and half a time or times, time and the dividing of time.  It is also the same length of time as both the beasts, i.e. 42 months or 1260 days.  By looking at the time of their death, we can backtrack to their arrival.

 

The story of the 2 Witnesses is in Revelations chapter 11, their deaths in verses 7-12.  Verses 12. 13 and 14 though proved some noteworthy details.  Verse 14, however, holds the key to your question.  Their deaths take place during the Second Woe (6th Trumpet). 

 

If you had taken time to go through my lengthy letter, you would then know that the Second Woe (the 6th Trumpet) takes place during the reign of the Second Beast (the Satan embodied false prophet that scripture calls Hell, the First Beast, the antichrist, being called Death). 

 

The two Beasts come to power at the end of the 4th Seal, following the 4th horse (Revelations 6:8).  Revelations 6: 9-11 describe the trials of the tribulation saints.   All this is part of a pattern set in place during day 4 of creation week.  Here day 4 is set preeminent in the figure of 7 and is particularly oriented to the battle over right to rule and divide (judge).  We see this not only in creation week, but in the 7 candle Mennorah which lit the inner tabernacle (Exodus 25: 31-40), and in the 7 candles before the Throne (Revelations 1: 12-13 & 20).  It is the strongest prophetic symbol in all scripture.

 

We see Jesus came at the end of the 4th milleniel day, and I will tell you that he died on a day 4, at the end of the day....not a Friday.  He was in the ground a fully complete 3 days and 3 nights (partials did not count).  See John 19: 31.....The day after Jesus died was a High Sabbath, i.e. a feast day (Passover), not a regular 7th day Sabbath.  This bit of information is very important in figuring out rapture times and days as well.  

 

  The pattern continues in Revelations....for these 3 sets of 7 are all about the battle over right to rule.  The 2 beasts comes to power at the end of the 4th Seal and rule the 5th, 6th and 7th Seals.  The first beast rules up to the end of the 4th Trumpet.  The second beast takes over at the end of the 4th Trumpet and rules the 5th, 6th and 7th Trumpets.  Proof is here:  Revelations 12: 9-11 is where Satan is thrown out of heaven.  In vs 12, it states....paraphrased, Woe to the inhabitants of the earth.  His reign as he comes down and takes over the body of the false prophet is the Woes of the 5th, 6th and 7th Trumpets.  

 

In Revelations 9:5 we see that the first Woe lasts 5 months.  In Revelations 9: 15 we see that the second Woe lasts one year, one month and one day.  The 7th Trumpet and third Woe is the 7 Vials of God's Wrath.  Just for info, chapter 10 contains a seriously hot exchange between the Voice of 7 Thunders (Jesus) and Satan, so hot the words were not to be recorded.  This exchange is just prior to the 7 Vials of the 7th Trumpet.

 

***With the above information, we can determine that the 2 Witnesses arrive on their mission to this earth somewhere between 5 months and 18 months after the first beast comes to power.  We can tell more closely to include the season....a couple paragraphs farther down.

 

From the point of the rapture of the bride, followed by the opening of the Seals, is a time period of 3.5 years....and the time of the apocalypse of the 4 horses (first 4 seals).   Like Revelations 2: 10 says, the entire Seals of Revelations time period is 10.5 years.  It is divided into 3 parts.....each coverning a times, time and half a time period, i.e. 3.5 years, 42 months or 1260 days.  The 3 parts are the 4 horses of the first 4 seals, the rule of the first beasts and the rule of the second beast.  

 

The rapture of the bride will be in the late spring and the coming to power of the first beast will be in the fall.  When he comes to power he will confirm the covenant with many (the false peace treaty concerning the lands of Israel and Jerusalem).  Note, all the conferences and agreements concerning these disputed lands have always taken place in the fall.  If he comes to power then in the fall....the second beast will come to power in the spring.  Jesus will return with his saints in the fall....likely at the Feast of Trumpets.   His battle with his angels at the battle of Armegeddon where he defeats the foe is earlier, my guess 7 months earlier....Satan's time is cut short.  (Think this is why Revelations 2: 10 says the tribulation is 10 years instead of 10.5. 

 

Now, my computer is giving me fits (crashing tonight), so I'm going to cut this short.

 

*** The 2 Witnesses will be killed in the spring, late spring, at the time of Pentecost.  That means they arrived in the fall, probably late fall.  Placing that in the time period from 5 months to 18 months after the first beast comes to power, probably means they arrive about 1 year (in the fall) after the first beast comes to power.   

 

Here's a couple tidbits to take with you.  They lie in the streets dead 3.5 days.  I'm going to tell you they die on a day 4 afternoon  and are resurrected on a Sunday....just like Jesus.....except, this will be a Pentecost Sunday.  It will complete the mission of the Holy Spirit on this earth and he will depart to heaven to take a rest just as did the Father at the end of creation week. 

 

I also said Revelations 11: 12, 13 and 14 had some valuable information.  Notice the voice from heaven, "Come Up Hither".  Sounds just like the rapture trumpet doesn't it.  Well, the cloud into which these guys are received are the tribulation saints. 

 

You can also see that it says their enemies (the 2 Witnesses enemies) beheld them.....as also does the remnant.  Just like Jesus and the OT saint ascension....this ascension is seen.  It is also just like the return of Jesus with the saints.....every eye beholds.  These cloud ascensions (and returns) are all seen.  So also will be the resurrection and ascension of the dead in Christ and the ascension of the bride.  It is only the "changing" of the living to incorruptible (immortal) which takes place in the twinkling of an eye (1 Cor 15: 50-53). 

 

We note the remnant also sees this event and is frightened.  This remnant is part of the woman (race who brought us Jesus) who is sealed and hidden in the wilderness during the reign of the second beast (see Revelations 12).  This remnant is I believe the work of the 2 Witnesses, though they are sealed by an angel.  They are the 144,000 of the tribes of Isreal who are sealed in chapter 7.  Revelations 9:4 tells us they are sealed to protect them from the  locusts (demons?) of the 1st Woe.

 

These are not the 144,000 of the immortal bride, but a group of mortals who will be leaders of the reconstituted nation of Israel after all the tribes are brought back together in the promised land.  This nation will be chief of nations and highly blessed.  They will however, be underneath the immortal global government of Jesus and his immortal saints.  144,000,  just like 24, is a multiple of 12 and a symbol of perfection in government.   

 

Hope you got something out of this.  I honestly believe the rapture will happen before summer solstice.  Look for the opening event (the resurrection and ascension of the dead in Christ, i.e. the midnight cry) to likely take place on a Sabbath day (between Friday sundown and Saturday sundown), likely during or close to a full moon.  The early May and early June times should bear watching. 

 

 Don't get too wrapped around the axle about exactly when Passover and Second Passover are.  The 7 Week Feast of Weeks envelop all the spring feasts....and they are about first fruits.  It can only start when the fruits reach a certain ripeness....and in this case we are talking about a spiritual harvest....something only God knows.   It should happen before summer solstice.

 

This rapture will be a Second Passover event and will follow the pattern of Hezekiah's Second Passover in 2 Chron 30......3 events over 7 and 7 days.  The parable of the  10 virgins is the same pattern without a day count.   The 3 events are the midnight cry (resurrection and ascension of the dead in Christ), the "changing" of the living to immortal and finally the ascension of the living wise bride.  There will be a 4th event, the Holy Spirit outpouring on the left behind....10 days after the ascension of the living bride, and on a Pentecost Sunday.   

 

The key here is not to panic if you see the midnight cry and you are left standing here mortal.  Following this Passover opening event is the 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread, a feast about praising, spiritual cleansing and spiritual preparedness.  Do not neglect this feast if you desire to be changed.  Also do not fall for any delusions.  Our governments have steading prepared us for some alien and UFO invasion via discover and history channels.  This event will be portrayed as such.  There is also a possibility of this 7 days (between the midnight cry and the changing) being stretched into 21 or 28.  See Daniel chapter 10.  This is a foreshadow of something and Daniel seems much like we would be in this circumstance.  Just Trust God.

  

Steve