![]() ![]() How many of us have made that journey nonetheless, and found that She is the place that God hath prepared for us. How many of us have fled into the wilderness after Her? Either knowingly following in Her footsteps, or seemingly following in the footsteps of other women (or men) who walk before you. Waiting for us in the daunting wilderness. I'm not sure that I don't.Įither way I keep coming back to this image that She is there. Until Satan (the red dragon) is no longer waging war on Her. There are also scholars who metaphorically believe that She is still there, waiting until it is safe for Her to return. There are scholars who believe that the woman referred to in Revelation 12 is Heavenly Mother. Only to find that God drew them close and nourished them so that they could come to know God more fully, and know themselves more fully. Only to find that God had prepared a place for them. Into a place vast in desolation, uncertainty, unfamiliarity. So many righteous men and women in the scriptures have fled into the wilderness. I've been thinking about this concept of fleeing into the wilderness. Christians continued to be persecuted by the Roman church, which is what prompted the flight of the Pilgrims in the first place, and Jews also have had so much trouble finding any place which would welcome them, receive them, and allow them to keep the commandments of God in peace."And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared of God" While the Pilgrims and those who followed after them were busy making a great nation out of the wilderness, the dragon did indeed make war with the rest of her offspring. For so many years, the earth has indeed helped the woman, and the sufferings which Christians and Jews in the rest of the world suffer, do not touch the woman here. That the earth helped the woman, because it swallowed the flood of persecution from the serpent, also fits, because America has been separated from the rest of the world by two oceans. In 1620 the Pilgrims fled religious persecution in Europe and arrived on these shores, which was a vast wilderness at that time. My alternate theory is this: when the dragon began to fiercely persecute the woman Israel, she fled the persecution on the wings a great eagle. While she was being martyred by the Roman church, how was she being nourished? My only problem with it is that the Scriptures say that the woman was nourished in the wilderness for 3-1/2 times. Second, what about this wilderness? Traditional historicists say that the woman, who they identify as Zion or the true church, fled into the wilderness of obscurity with the rise of the state- sponsored counterfeit church (the Roman church) which they place at 533 ad, and they end the 1260 years at 1793 with the French Revolution. Judah and Ephraim are of course considered the offspring of Israel. The house of Judah, i.e., the Jews, keep the commandments of God, and the house of Ephraim, i.e., the Gentiles who became the Christians, have the testimony of Jesus Christ. The rest of Israel’s offspring are: 1) those who keep the commandments of God, and 2) those who have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Her firstborn was the male Child, Jesus Christ the Messiah. Revelation 12:6, 13-17ġ) fled into the wilderness, where she would be nourished for 1260 days or 3-1/2 times Ģ) escaped there by the two wings of a great eagle ģ) was persecuted by the dragon, who is the serpent, by a flood pouring from his mouth Ĥ) the earth helped the woman, and swallowed up the flood of the dragon – serpent ĥ) this enraged the dragon, who made war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.įirst let us consider who the rest of her offspring are. 17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. ![]() … 13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. Previously: Revelation 12: seven heads and ten hornsĦ Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
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