legitimate Elijah who should come before the judgment day of Christ. God had sent him to us and we did not want to know him. He would be the last; God would send us no one else, etc. Even as Hoffman held open this adventual role for himself, others were becoming identified, or were identifying themselves, as the second of the two adventual witnesses. In his confession, Obbe Philips recalled that, with Hoffman and others of his followers in prison or killed, many others arose with further visions. So it was prophesied that either Cornelius Poldermann or Kasper Schwenckfeld was Enoch, and that the 144,000 apostolic messengers would leave Strassburg to preach throughout the earth when Hoffman was released from prison. Philips related: Thereafter Elijah and Enoch would stand upon the earth as two torches and olive trees. No one might harm or hinder them; and they should be dressed in sacks; and, if anyone should hinder them, fire would go from their mouths and devour their enemies. In Munster, Germany, Annabaptist Jan Matthys set up a theocracy. He died violently in 1534. Another leader, Jan van Leyden was executed after the 1534 -- 1535 Munster "kingdom." Menno Simons (1496 -- 1561) became a leader of the Anabaptist movement in the Netherlands, when it was in danger of losing its original identity under the influence of chiliastic and revolutionary leaders who succeeded in winning large followings. He maintained original peaceful Biblical Anabaptist concepts and won many who had been in