Two in One & One in Two

Jesus, the Messiah, has two constituents in His One Body – two in one, or you could say, Jesus has One Body with two constituents – one in two!

The two-in-one and one-in-two imagery are used by Ezekiel, Zechariah, Paul, and John all describing God’s elect and their identity in prophetic imageries. Though they are two constituents of His One Elect Body, they are both present and fully engaged during the end-times!

As we saw in Paul’s revelation, he used the two-in-one imagery in his communiqué to the Romans, identifying two olive trees: (1) Israel, the natural and true olive tree and (2) Gentiles, the wild olive tree being engrafted into the one olive tree - supported by the one Root Jesus. They are two constituents (Jew and Gentile) being created as ONE in the One New Man.

Get the picture (pun intended)? The emphasis is on ONE body, with two constituents – this is the whole point of the Mystery of Christ and His One Body, the One New Man. Some prophetic visuals describe God’s end-time troopers in the two-in-one visual and some describe them in the one-in-two visual, but the point of the prophetic visuals are clear – both constituents are present as God’s elect upon the earth through the end-times!

The Book of Revelation gives both a big-picture description of all time and a detailed description of end-times. In Revelation 12, we are seeing a big-picture scenario of God’s One New Man, as John is describing Satan’s persecution of God’s elect throughout the whole of history, including the end-times. We’ll pick it up in Rev 12:13.

Now when the dragon (Satan) saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman (Israel, God’s Elect) who gave birth to the male Child (Jesus). But the woman (Israel, God’s Elect) was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the (Satan) serpent. So the serpent (Satan) spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman (Israel, God’s Elect), that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. But the earth helped the woman (Israel, God’s Elect), and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon (Satan) had spewed out of his mouth. And the dragon was enraged with the woman (Israel, God’s Elect), and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God (Jews) and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (Gentiles).  

Rev 12:13-17