It was on the mornings of 3, 4 and 5 February 1652 that the ‘Lord Jesus, the only wise God’ spoke to a man named John Reeve (1608–1658), revealing to him that he had been chosen as the Lord’s ‘last messenger’. Together with his cousin Lodowick Muggleton (1609–1698), who acted as Reeve’s mouthpiece – much as Aaron had served his brother Moses – the pair proceeded to claim that they were the ‘two Witnesses of the Spirit’ foretold in the Revelation of Saint John.
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The Muggletonians, 1652–1979?
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It was on the mornings of 3, 4 and 5 February 1652 that the ‘Lord Jesus, the only wise God’ spoke to a man named John Reeve (1608–1658), revealing to him that he had been chosen as the Lord’s ‘last messenger’. Together with his cousin Lodowick Muggleton (1609–1698), who acted as Reeve’s mouthpiece – much as Aaron had served his brother Moses – the pair proceeded to claim that they were the ‘two Witnesses of the Spirit’ foretold in the Revelation of Saint John.