“St. Ephraim the Syrian (Word on the Coming of the Lord) and St. John the Damascene (A Precise Exposition of the Orthodox Faith) teach definitely that we must understand that the ‘two witnesses’ who are to appear before the end of the world are the Holy Prophets Elias and Enoch. The Tradition of the Holy Church expressed in our Orthodox service books, also speaks for (this) literal understanding. … In the Synaxarion read on Meat Fare Sunday (in Eastern Orthodox churches) it is said: ‘Seven years before (the end of the world), as Daniel foretold, Enoch and Elias will come preaching to them that they not receive him (Antichrist): Antichrist will torture them and will behead them’ (Triodion of the Great Fast).”
And they continue further,
“In the Menaion (July 20) we read: ‘The Holy Prophet of God Elias was taken up in the flesh in a fiery chariot and is alive even now … and will be seen again in the flesh by mortal men before the Lord’s second coming on the earth. . . . not only as a prophet, but as a martyr. … In the ‘Prologue’ for the same day it is said: ‘Elias will come with Enoch before the second coming of Christ, in order to convict the utter impiety of Antichrist and to comfort the piety of believers.” (Apostasy and Antichrist, pp. 31, 32)
http://icliks.wordpress.com/gods-changes/end-times/the-two-witnesses-of-revelation/
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