It fits for the true witnesses to arise, to prepare the way for the last times of the age, the messenger prophesied by prophets.
We live in this time of preparation, when there is a famine of the word of God, when Christ is preparing her church for the everlasting Kingdom of God. Refer to the words of the angel on the first recorded sighting of the outpouring of the Sword upon the heavenly principalities- live right, Godly, goodly. There is a great sword upon the nations too as a result. This is because a lot of what is real in the physical is sensitive to changes in the spiritual realm. The earth was not always static and stoned until death came upon it. The same earth is groaning, even louder as the revelation of the sons of God gets nearer.
- Luke chapters 1,2 3 explains the assignment of the messenger as he prepared the way for Christ then, and again now.
This is a time when the populace prepares for the coming of the messiah. The messenger starts to take the Kingdom by force, and this is continued by Christ, and his disciples:
Purpose of the messenger:
Luke 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. 76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
The same purposes are a prophetic declaration of the purpose of the Angel of God in the current season. Note that in John the baptist wars against the Kingdoms of the heavens, he did not have an army, a battalion, a sword. He was a simple man, dressed in camel hair, and his food was locust and honey. His wars were in the spirit. This is how he prepared for Christ:
Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
The same Angel that was released to help John go forth before Christ is the same Angel at work now, and He prepares the way for Christ again, this time for a more radical takeover of the Kingdom.
The work of the messenger is reiterated in other gospels, and in prophets too;
Malachi
In Malachi is the state of the church now, and the work of the true witnesses called for the season, as they set the stage ready for the Son of God. Read the whole of it.
chapter 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
This was first fulfilld on the first coming of Christ, and it will be fulfilled again.
Matthew 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
