Revelation11:4

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Translation

These are the two olive trees

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and the two lampstands

standing before

THE LORD OF THE EARTH.

Paraphrase

These balanced ones are important because they were filled with God’s Spirit

and are serving as demonstrations of God’s glory, which is made possible by the Holy Spirit, causing them to shine the light of the Gospel to the world, and are ready at all times to fulfill the commands of THE SUPREME RULER OVER ALL THE EARTH.

Footnotes

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“Olive trees” produce olive oil which was symbolic of the Holy Spirit. It showed importance because of their reliance on the olive trees, but the symbolic meaning of importance was based on the symbolism of the Holy Spirit.