They receive messages from Jesus. Jesus has said in messages that he gave to them that they are the Two witnesses.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1John 4:1
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:4-5
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Matthew 24:24
Remember the deceiving false miracles and wonders of Fatima, 1917...
The Two Witnesses are
The Word of God and the
Holy Spirit.
These two witnesses have been repressed and denied for 1,260 years during the rule of Rome and her Papacy; until the
latter-day rain of the Pentecostal and divine healing revivals that God brought forth in both the U.K. and the U.S.A . (1880s > 1917).
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles:
and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Revelation 11:2
forty-two months = 40 x 30 days = 1,200 plus two months = 60 days (total of 1,260 days, which in Bible prophecy is 1,260 years)
This came to fruition in 1917 when General Allenby and British and Australian forces marched into Jerusalem (again in accordance to Bible
prophecy) without firing a shot, and ended the Ottoman Turkish Muslim rule of Jerusalem.
Jews from Europe and elsewhere began migrating into Palestine and Jerusalem and the Zionist restoration had begun.
Also there is much Christian conversion going on in modern Israel, much to the anger and frustration of the Rabbis.
The Two Witnesses are not two individual prophets as two anointed individuals.
They refer to the power and work of the gospel of salvation and the Pentecostal experience of being baptized by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
The Book of Acts came alive again primarily in the beginning of the 20th century and continues through for one hundred years and more
counteracting a litany of false Christs and false gospels.