Interesting discussion tonight about the identity of the two faithful witnesses in Revelation chapter 10 and eleven. Early church fathers believed that the two were Enoch and Elijah because these were two men who did not die. I pointed out that if that was the bases of identifying these two people then all Christians who took place in the Rapture would also have to be considered. God said that "the first shall be last and the last shall be first" and God has often chosen the most unlikely person to be the hero.. Based on that the witnesses could very well be an illiterate person that loved God's Word so much that they have committed it to memory.
Based on the scripture in Revelation in making reference to certain events, it would make sense that the two witnesses could very well be Elijah and Moses. Even though these two men are associated with lack of rain and miracles involving water the powers to do these things belong to God not to these men so I would not rule them in based on the miracles the two witnesses performed.
The strongest argument for these two men being the faithful witnesses belongs to the Mount of Transfiguration in which Moses and Elijah appeared to testify to the deity of Christ.
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