Revelation 12:1 ¶ And there
appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered.
There are a couple of different
ways to take chapter 12. One, is as a future event. The other is as historical
background, a sort flashback in the events unfolding.
One take is that verse one could
refer to Israel who will give birth to Christ.
Genesis 3:15 And I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Here is an interesting cross
reference having to do with Joseph.
Genesis 37:9 And he dreamed yet
another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a
dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made
obeisance to me.
Read the prophet Hosea for Israel
as an unfaithful wife.
Some historical commentators
viewed the woman as the church itself while some American writers regarded the
man-child as the United States, but this has been mentioned previously and is
so wrong it need not be mentioned again.
Israel suffered greatly for her
apostasy and Christ came into Israel as a Jew when the Roman Empire ruled them
and they had lost all their former glory under David and Solomon. Not long
after His resurrection, about forty years, Herod’s version of the Temple was
destroyed by the Romans as the result of an insurrection against them by the
Jews. Israel struggled and labored spiritually, politically, and physically
before giving birth, in a manner of speaking, to Christ.
The events coming up may be the
Time of Jacob’s Trouble referenced in prophecy in Jeremiah, chapter 30.
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