Dear Gino,

Yes, you're right that the identity of the Two Witnesses is not a straightforward thing. I think Moses and Elijah were in their Spirit Bodies at the Transfiguration of Jesus, which is the same kind of body where Jesus was after His Resurrection, a body that can vanish into thin air just like Moses and Elijah did, but which can also eat fish like Jesus did.

The main reason I think the Two Witnesses are not Moses and Elijah in flesh, but acting in their Spirit is that they are called the Two Candlesticks or lamp stands which in Revelation 1 told us to be earthly Churches. Also with the New Covenant outpouring of the Holy Spirit, something that was earlier reserved for a few was now made available for everybody.

Including prophesying, as the Two Witnesses are also said to be the Two Prophets which points more to two actual persons than a group of people. But yet again, the beast of Revelation will make war kill people for the Testimony of Jesus Christ as he will do with the Two Witnesses:

Rev. 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 19:10 also says that "testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy", so every believer in the New Covenant is potentially also a Prophet by the gift of the Grace of God (1 Cor. 14).

There is also some ambiguity in where the Two Witnesses are actually killed, since Revelation 11:2 clearly speaks about Jerusalem, the Holy City, but then there's a change of wording and tone as Revelation 11:8 says the Two Witnesses are killed in the streets (or public corners) of "the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified". This is usually understood to be Jerusalem as well, but "the Great City" is also a reference to "Babylon the Great" (Rev. 17) which according to its destruction (Rev. 18) is a larger area than just Jerusalem or even Israel.

Jesus was also not crucified within what at the time was considered to be the City of Jerusalem (i.e. not within the city walls, Hebr. 13:12), but somewhere in the countryside surrounding the city, as can be read from the Gospels. Not too far to fulfil the prophecies, but clearly not within the city itself. Also, Jerusalem is referred to as Sodom elsewhere in the Bible, but newer to Egypt. Similarly Jerusalem is referred to as a Great City only once (Jer. 22.8) elsewhere in the Bible, but this is after its destruction, So there's definitely something going on here.

This might be a bit far off, but I have also noticed a possible connection between the Two Witnesses and the Four Horsemen, which can be read here:

"Is there a connection between the Four Horsemen and the Two Witnesses of Revelation?"
https://herrannimessa.blogspot.com/2025/09/is-there-connection-between-four.html

Thank you anyway for replying to my posts, hopefully this one will reach you.

Blessings,

E.L.