Our present-day understanding of the words “testimony” and “witness” is not valid. Going back to the Pentateuch, the earliest references to the words, they always represent something other than a personal testimony. Using the types and shadows of the Tabernacle, pointing to Christ, we see the testimony is to glorify God, not to take our sins off the cross to be paraded. Genesis, Exodus, Hebrews, Malachi, Leviticus 5, Acts VF-1718